| R.E.M. – Nightswimming Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[simsfreq:39011] I would love to hear a follow up to this comment sixteen years on. I know that I felt the same when I was seventeen, but later in life I would dearly love to revisit that time knowing what I know now. Mainly, knowing that everyone around me was a human being who was going through their own struggles, and would face so much more in the years to come. I wish I had been far kinder to them and to myself. |
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| Howard Jones – Good Luck, Bad Luck Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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The first verse appears to based on a discussion between the two main characters in Illusions, by Richard Bach. Don is telling Richard that movies are a metaphor for our lives in spacetime. It's possible that the analogy is original to Howard Jones, but the wording is similar enough that it is probably an homage. The second verse is taken almost word for word from a passage in book one chapter one of Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. It is a vision given to Dan by his mentor Socrates. The title is from a later section of the same book, in which Socrates tells a parable of a man who responds to a series of events, some good and some bad, by saying this phrase. The lesson is that no event is definitely good or bad, until seen much later as part of a tapestry of events. Both of these books are fictional autobiographies in which the author meets a spiritual guru who leads them to a deeper understanding of the nature of reality. |
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| Christopher Cross – Best That You Can Do (Arthur's Theme) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have seen the second verse written two ways, and neither of them is the version above. The most common is "all of his life his master's toys" (which honestly makes no sense to me). The other is "all of his life he's mastered choice(s)". I can't find a definitive source though. BTW, the line about "when you get caught between the moon and New York City" was originally written by Peter Allen when his plane was stuck in a holding pattern above New York. This obviously doesn't invalidate the various interpretations, of course. |
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