| David Crosby – Laughing Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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It seems to me that David was seeking "the truth" ... Looking for the answer to "life". He knew the answer when he wrote this song. He didn't name it "I was Mistaken" , he named it "Laughing" for a reason. He looks (we all do) to a friend who turns out to be a" stranger". Yet he knew the stranger. This reflects all the people in our life that we "know" yet never seem to sync up with us as much as we would like. The next verse is a little more hopeless. Something seems like a light "to guide" but it's just a "reflection of a shadow"... how beautifully hopeless is that? Crosby is a great lyricist. Finally he says he thinks he found someone who knows the truth, yet he still states that he was mistaken. But the child Laughing in the sun IS the truth, that's why it is the title of the song. A child laughing in the sun is enlightenment. The reason he says he was "mistaken" is that the child does not "know" the truth... it simply, is. |
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