| Marmalade – Reflections Of My Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My first impression was formed in 1969 at the age of 15. I enjoyed the song but there were so many songs that this song did not have the time to go deeper into my person and I being 15 was not fully able to discern either its lyrical content or its musical roots. In fact I had long forgotten this song when just this week I re-discovered it thru a friend's FB page on which he posted his cover of this song. Who is The Marmalade? I said to myself. I went seeking. I played the song over and over and I really experienced its greatness this time. Once I had absorbed it emotionally and artistically I began to wonder about its meaning and my immediate feeling was that this kind of emotional depth would have to belong to something very difficult and so I felt it was about the experience of Viet Nam and felt the date was also right. Today I listened to British DJ who recently interviewed Dean Ford. Dean did not say that the lyrcis were written about VN but he did say that many Viet Nam vets related to the song and liked it. This song is one of those creations by an artist (or group of artists) which goes beyond the artists themselves and has, because of its greatness, a life of its own. I really have loved watching the young Marmalades in various videos perform this song. In it I can see all of my heartfelt ambitions as a teen to become a professional singer / performer / and songwriter. They did it and did it very well. Thank you Dean Ford and The Marmalade. | |
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