| Elliott Smith – Isn't It a Pity (George Harrison cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Eric, Patty and George, their love triangle created the meaning for this song. When George recorded it, it was meant directly for Patty and Eric getting together behind and in front of George's face. Ironically, after George passed, Eric sings it for George in the tribute concert. The song means every word it states. Eric stole Patty (more or less) from George, and George recorded this song stating clearly the loss and hurt he felt from both of them, loving them both all the while as only George would. John was always seen as the Peace-nik, but George walked the walked more than any of them. We miss you George. |
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| Peter Gabriel – My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've never been one to pick apart a song line by line, being a song-writer myself, when I write, it varies where things come from. Knowing the band, Win being an American (Arcade Fire duh), very much the philosopher....I can say honestly this song cannot be picked apart. The entire meaning is quite clear. To be frozen in fear, to look down at one's body crippled in fear, sickness, disability, etc., one couldn't help but find themselves locked in a 'cage', and that part is simple. Being a heart patient, very ill most of my life, AND dealing with anxiety issues, this song is quite literal. I find myself many times fighting to find words that no longer hold meaning to others, ideas that others cannot fathom. The life I once knew, and the person I once was, is long gone now. I have but one freedom awaiting me, death. Don't mean to be depressing sounding as the song in musical form finds crescendos, etc., and there is always beauty in pain and pain in beauty, or as once said, truth beauty, beauty truth by Keats.....I sit here with the one I love and yet he has felt alone for years since my heart and other illnesses kicked in...what we have sought since then has been right in front of us and we've been dancing all along, just not the one we had dreamed. The sleeper must awaken. |
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