MikeVoyager1
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I live in beautiful Northern California and love Brit-rock, astronomy, astrology, ancient legends, numbers, and traveling. Sagittarius Sun with Pisces Moon.
| Doves – Spellbound Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Dark magic mirror, raise your head, night coming down, accepting fate - these seem like references to astrology. That's basically what those of us who fully believe in astrology do, we don't believe in free will, we accept that fate is given to us at birth by the alignment of the night sky at that time. So, raising your head to see the certain constellations and planets that are dominant in your natal chart is like looking into a spiritual mirror. | |
| Doves – Spellbound Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Dark magic mirror, raise your head, night coming down, accepting fate - these seem like references to astrology. That's basically what those of us who fully believe in astrology do, we don't believe in free will, we accept that fate is given to us at birth by the alignment of the night sky at that time. So, raising your head to see the certain constellations and planets that are dominant in your natal chart is like looking into a spiritual mirror. | |
| The Verve – Columbo Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I have two interpretations of this song. The first, and more certain, is that it is a warning from The Verve to any beginners or young people about going through a lifetime of being a musician. It's very autobiographical, and the title "Columbo" could mean that just like Christopher Columbus, they've been around the world and explored through all of the good and all of the bad of the lifestyle that they ended up in. They're saying you'll begin with rejection and crying (from a record label or a bad audience), and then question your own ability and have just "your instinct" (musical creativity) to guide you. Then it will be easy to get yourself so messed up, and if you make it you end up on the inside of a vain culture of fame, celebrities, drugs, guns, so on. Your "miracle accent" (gifted singing voice) will die, because you have strained your vocal chords too much, from giving 150-200 concerts per year. And after this journey/career, you'll be very desperate for love, because you did not get any of it in a true form through all of those years. It's amazing how so many big name musicians seem to be our idols and would seem to have a very enjoyable life, but they're not fulfilled from it at all - because they've been on the inside of showbiz and have been sucked into all of its wrongs that us simple fans could never even imagine. The second - and the mention of the Thames makes me question it, but still - is that this song is a European observation of present day America. As in, Columbo sailed across the Atlantic and that has since turned into our disastrous culture of messed up kids, shallow celebrities, wet dreams for fame, guns and shootings, etc. |
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| The Verve – Echo Bass Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I didn't realize it at first, but the title is a Star Wars reference! Echo Base was the Rebel hideout on Hoth - a planet so snowy and windy it is almost uninhabitable. The Rebels carved out a base on it of many bridges, arches, tunnels through the icy caves - it was their only home in a world that they could not venture out into, for fear of either freezing or being hunted by giant monsters (Wampas). Similarly, I think this song is about having a lover who provides you a base of necessary (emotional) warmth in an otherwise (emotionally) cold world. The mentions of observing broken hearted people are reminiscent of looking at Hoth's frozen landscape, but then the chorus is kind of a thank you to Richard's wife or whoever, "babe you save me". Your lover is your Echo Base. It's one of my favorite Verve songs too, so smooth and funky and it makes for both a relaxing and exciting listen. |
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