| John Lennon – #9 Dream Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I share your feelings about his song. John seems to be prophetically anticipate the events of the night of his death. In fact, sends a shiver down my spine when I hear the lyrics. The lyrics seem to match up so well with the events of that horrific night. ( ...and, coming from me, a non-religious materialist, is a tad surprising). I have often wondered if it was only me who noticed the parallels. Apparently not. The first set of lyrics seem to describe a reverse deja vu experience. He takes the perspective of being in the future, looking back at the events of that night as if he was remembering them. And in a dream-like state, he is wondering if what he is remembering was all real or just a (very bad) dream. "So long ago Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? I know, yes I know Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me." A couple of possible variants on the above poster's interpretations: "Thru the heat whispered trees" -- "trees" possibly referring to the tall buildings of NY. "Heat" possibly referring that these "trees" (buildings) were heated (unlike the coldness of the actual trees). "Thru the mirror go round, round (I had read one time that as Lennon was hit he spun from the bullets)" Don't think he spun around. Rather, I have read that, despite being shot, Yoko commented that he just continued walking forward until he entered the inside guard kiosk where he collapsed. Another interpretation of "Thru the mirror go round, round." Could refer to his recently released album "Double Fantasy" -- a mirror fantasy between him and his assassin Chapman of the events of that night. "The spirit dance was unfolding" He was dying -- leaving his body -- thus the "spirit dance was unfolding." And the verse before this: "Dream, dream away Magic in the air, was magic in the air? I believe, yes I believe More I cannot say..." He believes something (what? the afterlife? another dimension?), but, he cannot say more because he is no longer in this universe / dimension (?). Again, I am a complete skeptic re psychic phenomena, an afterlife, etc. But, OTOH, quantum physics is damn weird, so who the heck knows? The lyrics do seem prophetic, and every time I hear the song, I am taken through the dream-like sequence of events of that horrific night. |
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