| The Killers – Heart of a Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Another thing I find interesting is that while Gatsby thinks the 'rock of the world was founded on a fairy's wing', to Mr Flowers, when he stands on his dreams he really is 'standing on stone'. It's a more firm, and more unshakeable belief. Again, such confidence might be because of his wife. 'There is no end' might mean that real dreams aren't achieved by simply becoming rich. They're more intangible than that. 'Many doors, knock on one' is probably a call to America to thrust itself forward with the same optimism as comes in knocking a mysterious door. |
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| The Killers – Heart of a Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Very reminiscent of Fitzgerald, especially 'The Great Gatsby'. -When he met his wife, he had no real aims, only vague aspirations lost at the cross-roads. He was one of many waiters and dealers without direction in their dreams- America as a whole is symbolised in them; the whole of America seems to be 'standing still'. - His wife confesses the same, but Mr Flowers says that he will 'listen to the heart of a girl', and together their lives will find something to aspire to- some reason to run faster, stretch out further etc. Eventually, they do this by hearing the 'ancient refrain'- the song of the founding fathers. But as time 'drips down the clock', such music drifts further and further into the past. And 'time is raging' like never before. - Mr Flowers mourns for the lost America so far from his wife's earnest grief- modern America is just a ripple made by the pearl that fell into the ocean; lost seemingly forever. But the hands of the founding fathers are reaching now, steering the meandering river of America back into that ocean, and the pearl that lies within. And the hand is a heart, too- the heart Flowers was waiting for; the heart that is his wife's heart, and everyone else's heart as well. -In this vision of the future, everyone 'honours the plans that were made' in America's conception. And no-one is alone, because they have dreams- real dreams, with direction and purpose. With such dreams, in such a future, we will never truly be alone- and whether one shouts about such a future or not, it will come. -And Flowers, though part of an America currently lost in the vale of the night, still feels the presence of the forefathers in America- that's how he knows such a future will come. We might compare Mr Flowers to Jay Gatsby, in such a limited extent. Because Gatsby was in a similar boat- everyone around him wanted only to be rich, not to be accompanied with soul-fuelling dreams. The difference was that while Mr Flowers has his wife, Gatsby only really had Nick to share his vision with- Mr Flowers seems to be happier. Perhaps that's why. |
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