| Mazzy Star – Fade Into You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me personally this song fits a personal family story. I am a guy, but I love this song, because it is so naturally flowing, so soulful, it can have many different inerpretations. My great uncle died in WW11 in the Pacific Theater near New Guinea. The line "I think it's strange you never knew." really hits home for me. Here's the story: Even before he joined my great uncle, also my grandma's brother on my mom's side of the family, and my grandma's closest in age sibling, had a vicious temper, high energy later in the day, and wild mood swings. All bipolar mental illness symptoms. He was also my great-grandmother's olest son. Well, he was the sergeant for his army group,and he offered to charge ahead of his men, even telling them to stay back. In hindsight, since coming to know that bipolar illness runs in the family, this could have been a manic phase of his illness. He got hit in the neck by a Japanese sniper's bullet. As he turned back toward his boat, he got hit twice more in the back. He died and got a Purple Heart award. When the family got the tragic news of the Nov. 28 1942 death in battle, great grandma could only think about her son being buried across the world, across the ocean, and maybe think of his death in a mystical sense. Since mental illness was not well understood in those days, she 'never knew' he had been mentally ill, while maybe taking wild risks as a leader. (sergeant) So when I think of great-grandma, it's easy to think like the lyrics say, "I think it's strange you never knew." Fitting for both the mental illness aspect, and great grandma having no final closure on where her oldest son was buried. |
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| Faithless – Fade Into You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I love 'Fade into you' by Mazzy Star. I am a guy and it just reminds me of my great-grandmother, who was a Finnish immigrant, and lost her oldest son in WW11 in the Pacific, in the early heavy fighting near New Guinea. A Japanese sniper bullet hit him in the neck in waist deep waters, on Nov 28 1942. My grandma was his closest sibling and had been recently married when the family got the tragic news. For me personally, this is the perfect song for their family, because, it was found in later years that bipolar mental illness ran in the family, and the son who died in the war had been heroically going on ahead of his men in the waist deep water, when he took his fatal bullets. He may have been in a phase of mania from his bipolar illness, and it gave him courage to charge on ahead of his men, because he was their sergeant. So to me, this is the perfect song, when I think of how mental illness was not known about so much in those days, and not treated. And how it seems strange to me now that great-grandma never knew her son who died and got a Purple Heart award in WW11, was actually mentally ill. You see, he was known for wild mood swings and a vicious temper even before joining the military, so he had some classic signs of bipolar in my mind. | |
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