| Cowboy Bebop – Rain Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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My theory? I think that this song is about PTSD after a near-death experience, Specifically from being shot... while it was raining. The rain ends up being a trigger for re-living the event. The chorus "I walk in the rain" This is the part of the song that is happening in real time for the singer, who is literally walking through the rain, the big trigger, reliving that moment that broke them. "I don't feel a thing, and I stopped remembering... the days are just like moments turned to hours." With a near death experience, there can be a large disconnect from reality. After all, if you came to grips with the fact that you were going to die… Then lived.. How could you walk through the rain and be certain you aren't really still dead, and that this isn't somewhere, some time else? "Mother Used to say if you want, you'll find a way But mother never danced through fire shower" Even the people you love the most, from whom you draw comfort and inspiration, can't help you shake those dark memories, especially if they haven't been through something similar. In this case, I think fire shower is a barrage of bullets. Also, it was raining. "Is it right or is it wrong and is it here that I belong?" Again, this is the loss of self. If you are reliving that event every time it rains, and it causes a lot of internal pain and suffering, you might think.. was that near-death experience supposed to be your time to go? Was it a good thing or bad thing that you are alive? "If there is a hell I'm sure this is how it smells Wish this were a dream, but no, it isn't" I think the smell here is petrichor, or the smell of rain. Again, because I think rain is the trigger for the PTSD. "why do I feel so alone for some reason I think of home" This one is a stretch, but I think home here is not a house, but the place the singer always returns to at the end of a long days work. In the singers mind, this home, the place where they belong, is the death they almost had. It is the end of the traumatic event, the release from the pain. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[GwiberGwyrdd:17888] I think any conversation I had with a top physicist would probably result in me feeling like an idiot but I find myself wondering about things sometimes and I wish I had a family member like that to talk to. What's his name and what is he working on? | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| You wake up from a dream and all the lights are off and its just you. The dream you just had was revolutionary. You just discovered the meaning of the universe. Yet you are just sitting there reflecting.. And you realize you can't do anything about it. You don't have a degree, its not like you can back it up with numbers, or discuss it with the top level physicists. No the only people you have to tell are your friends and family. They simply would not understand. As you sit there in the dark, you see that all of these people are content with their happy ignorance. They do not care about quality, or causality, or anything more complicated than the latest pop song. But alas, this is always the case. And like many nights before this, you somberly drift back to sleep, silence taking you back to where you feel most understood. | |
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