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| The Divine Comedy – Count Grassi's Passage Over Piedmont Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[countgrassi:45798] Absolutely excellent more fulsome appreciation of this unique TDC song. Couldn’t disagree with any of it.
In the intervening 11 years since I wrote my bit, I am now much more open to awe and spirituality …largely due to the influence of Nick Cave.
We can all be happy (if we realise) in our Sisyphean struggle. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – O Children Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[rahula:33792] No! Some would argue there are no right or wrong interpretations, just interpretations...However, it seems to me that you are just fitting the lyrics into your worldview... and making far too much of it.
I note you do not even mention or refer to specific lines. So, as an overall interpretation, re the innocence of childhood disappearing into a moral vacuum, who could disagree. But... you must refer to the specifics of the lyrics...and you haven’t!
Very briefly, I would say it’s about totalitarianism and the loss of individual moral responsibility, using the reference points of communism (gulags) and fascism (the final solution gas chambers), with children and new generations bring our only hope to get it right next time. |
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| Joanna Newsom – On A Good Day Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[eggsforlegs:29579] No. She sees that the end of the relationship is clear and inevitable. She had already projected their life together, planned it in her head, right down to thinking of a name for their baby. But now she realises they must part as she knows his nature won't change (water is still water even when frozen). |
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| The Divine Comedy – Note To Self Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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It's only about that at the surface level. What makes it a great song is its obvious subliminal meaning on existence and why are we here and all those kind of philosophical questions. Basically we don't exist without others. |
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