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| Genesis – Ripples Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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"Ripples" is very clearly inspired by John Crowe Ransom's poem "Blue Girls" about the delicacy and power of youthful beauty and its transience. After all, Rutherford and Banks open the song lyrics with the words "Blue girls", the title of the Ransom poem. Ransom writes, "it is not long since she was lovelier than any of you." Rutherford and Banks write, "seems not very long ago, lovelier she was than any that I know." The "promised land where the honey flows" may mean life's ease to a girl when she is young. I think the opening verse of the song is from the point of view of a rock musician's encounters with young groupies, which starts him thinking about the theme of Ransom's "Blue Girls" poem. |
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| Genesis – Ripples Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[meloniec:26094] Without question, Ripples is directly inspired by John Crowe Ransom's poem "Blue Girls." Ransom writes, "it is not long since she was lovelier than any of you." Tony Banks writes, "seems not very long ago, lovelier she was than any that I know." Banks starts his lyrics with the words "Blue girls", the title of the Ransom poem. The "promised land where the honey flows" may mean life's ease to a girl when she is young. I think the opening verse of the song is from the point of view of a rock musician's encounters with young groupies, which starts him thinking about the theme of Ransom's "Blue Girls" poem. |
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