| Bel Canto – Shimmering, Warm And Bright Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Freud would talk about the battle between the ego and the id, Nietzsche - the Apollonian and Dionysian. Bel Canto in this song refers to the latter as an old giant, lurking around our house. Our limbic brain, home of emotions, fears, addiction, joy - all the things shimmering, warm and bright in life. They are of course uncontrollable, unpredictable, and we succumb to them as much as we fear them. Since these forces is irrational by nature, we resort to irrational means to make sense of them - such as religious signs and omens. For a similar take in another art form, one can refer to a film called "The Babadook". | |
| Bel Canto – Unicorn Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| The song is about a woman about to finally lose her virginity. It is filled with sacred religious connotations, and archaic English, as it is significant milestone in a woman's life, dating back to the dawn of humanity. The chapel in the woods is the speaker's private sacred area. The scroll inside the casket represents the lips within the vulva. The speaker's blue eyes have looked at herself for years, anticipating this sacred day. Her dark days of emptiness and loneliness are finally over, and bright light fills her soul (and chapel) as the spiral shaft of the beautiful unicorn (her lover, with his penis) finally enters her kingdom. Now with her new companion, the speaker has someone to rely on, and is protected from danger. Note this song is "conservative" in nature, hence the archaic language and religious undertone. | |
| Talking Heads – The Lady Don't Mind Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| A song about gaslighting way before it became such a popular term | |
| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This song depicts the struggle of a man going down the rabbit hole of becoming a nihilist. What would a complete loss of meaning, of all things, of space and time, other people, even your own subjectivity mean? notice the contradiction here. if you're becoming a nihilist, even this state of affairs can't mean anything. But a snake that eats its own tail appears to be depicted when the speaker, whilst in progress of losing meaning and value, has not yet lost sense of subjectivity (i think therefore i am). At this late stage, he can only meet face to face with himself. the meeting can't take place in any specific place, as orientation has been thrown out the window. so it must only take place "in between" locations, hence the stairs. Of course, the fading subject is now trying to converse with himself, baffled at his presence. His own ego then replies - don't confuse my nihilism with death. I merely sold the world (= let go of meaning). But the paradox of becoming a nihilist can never be resolved. Our protagonist can't find home, form, land, or even sense of time. All he can do is stare a gazely stare, and anachronistically see his own death. | |
| Roxy Music – More Than This Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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to understand this song, one should read the 17th century Dutch philosopher -Baruch Spinoza. In essence, Spinoza, lthough being a religious Jew, was in effect one of the first heralds of secular (dis-)believes in modern times. Nature is god, said Spinoza, and there is no transcendental one. More then this - there is nothing. Determinism governs the world and free will is an illusion. But our limited mind, of course, it "feels" like we are free, but that's just out epidemiological limit. So, how can we know where leaves falling in the night are blowing? there is no way of knowing. Our lives appear to us an an unfolding, open ended movie. like a dream in the night, we can never know where we are going. Still, deep within us, we ask the question of the determinism we see around us - why the sea on the tide can has no way of turning (e.g, choose is way). We feel we are free, but we see determinism surrounding us. We want the comfort of certainty and absolute knowledge, but also fear it since its consequence will surly mean we are no more then sophisticated automatons. The solution for this dilemma is written in the second stanza: accept the uncertainty and re-joy in it (no care in the world). the official video of the song, appear to support this thesis. It has religious icons and setting (cross, and hell-like environment), Bryan is sitting in a cinema, watching himself play in a scene. |
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