| Uriah Heep – The Wizard Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[yatra:18306] @[yatra:18306] What a wonderful interpretation and expression you shared, thank you for reaching across time and space and sharing yourself with me. I wish I could exchange more with you about your experience... from my childhood till now I've always enjoyed feeling my special power, still to this day I have special places I go inside and feel my magic, my powers of Wizard. Hope to hear more from you and hope you're still thriving in your magic! |
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| Leonard Cohen – Night Comes On Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is a journey of loss in the singer's life... >A child who has lost his Mother... he fears he won't make it alone but she (his Spirit Mother says, "I'll be with you, Go back tot he world." >Next, he loses his Father, who warns him to "remember,my Son how they lied." Deeply wounded by loss and abandonment issues as he arrives at romantic relationships, takes to religion (he actually worked in the kitchen at a monastery for years) >he "I wondered how long she would stay (will I lose her too?). "I needed so much to have nothing to touch (lest I lose that too), I've always been greedy that way." How will he navigate the relationship possibilities with his children? >(reacting to his reticence, they cry, "Papa you promised to play." As they lead him away to their great surprise, "Papa don't peek, Papa cover your eyes!" ...and they hide, they hide in the world. This is the same world his departed Mother keeps telling him to stay in, to go back to each time he joins her in his reverie, his wakeful dreaming world where he connects with her. It could be his Mother or his relationship / wife who may also have departed that he refers to, "Now I look for her always, I'm lost in this calling, I'm tied to the threads of some prayer..." He wants to follow her / them to the other side; Saying, "When will she summon me, when will she call to me, what must I do to prepare?" >He finds her (his departed wife or his muse) there, in his wakeful dream where he hangs out with her and make love with her, "when she bends to my longing like a willow, like a fountain, she stands in a luminous aire" He meets her there, in the same etherial place he's met his Spirit Mother, his Spirit wife says, "When I'm gone, I'll be yours, yours for a song." The last verse brings the tragic journey to a full circle, present-time: Now the crickets are singing The vesper bells ringing The cat's curled asleep in his chair I'll go down to Bill's Bar (he's pretty wasted in this life, but he can make it to the corner bar) I can make it that far And I'll see if my friends are still there Yes, and here's to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don't even care (a comment on the connections of the other alcoholics / friends in the bar... these are all that's left to hime now in this stage of his life) ...but his life-long connection to his Mom, who has been there with him through it all in the Spirit world... "I want to cross over, I want to go home" to her, to God... But she says, "Go Back, go back to the world" ...You're not done on this journey... |
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