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| Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I believe this is a type of stream of conscious poem and that Alicefern is really onto something. Maybe not in the center of the target, but very close. Poetry editors call this "encoding" and it often is surreal, with odd phrases and a kaleidoscope of grammar and logic. It is no longer in vogue with poetry magazines much, unless it is top-rate stuff which I think this song is. I think her drug use is interfering with her talents as it almost always does to musicians and artists who go into it with naive bravodo. What I think Fraser did was fuse a great deal of meaning into a fair amount of nonsense and maybe she is so far down in despair that this grafting one on to the other is the only way she can accept the truth within her life and in her work. |
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| Caterwaul – What I Hear You Can't, How Come? Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Until the last stanza I might think the song was about a schitzophrenic. But when she sings that it is the proclamation of love that only she can hear, it makes my heart skip a beat. She is addressing someone in particular and I doubt it is a composite character. Someone love does not exist for is tragic and the singing is in synch with the message of the song. It is slow paced and the way she emphasized her words is uniquie and special because the person she is writing about is special to her. She is in grief. The music is subdued to fit the message as well. This is a band that could crank out some very good hard rock. This is contemplative. I would not say cathartic...haven't used that word since college. But it might bring a tear to your eye if you are tender hearted. I think there are so few of us. |
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| Shinedown – The Crow And The Butterfly Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I take the "getting high as outer space" a little too literally. Maybe its a dream about the death of a daughter. I don't know. I personalize this tune and it fits snugly into an experience I lived through almost 25 years ago, only it was my girlfriend and the getting high part was literal. I think of what the crow and butterfly could mean not just from my perspective, but from any. I think of the Buddhist philosophy that seperates the real world from the imagined one. It is best to be careful when interpreting the crow. He may be ugly, but he is highly intelligent. Also, he has a much greater life span than that of a butterfly. They are not different in all respects. They both spend their lives toiling to survive. How meaningless is life to the both of them? They are both smart enough not to care and if it were the butterfly chasing the crow there would be no real cause for concern. |
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| Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I have a Pink Floyd work in progress at: musicorelse.weebly.com I invite anyone to go look and see this even though I have not covered from Dark Side forward yet. I analyze music and add commentary that sometimes includes the meaning of lyrics, but that usually do not. I read many interesting views on the meaning of early Pink Floyd here. Sorry not to have a take on it much myself. I am a published writer with a bachelor's in English who was an amateur musician for 17 years. Too old to look for meaning in a Pink Floyd song. Welcome to my blog. |
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