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| Neil Finn – She Will Have Her Way Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[xanya:37729] My take: "Thinker, soldier terrified" is about the masculine perspective of the narrator and his anxieties over falling in love. masculinity comes with the social expectations of being in control (of your own emotions, your own life, if not more), of being rational and intellectually powerful ("thinker"), and of being physically/psychologically powerful ("soldier"). But he thinks his love for this She Who Will Have Her Way will lead him to act against what his rational self might advise himself to do. He travels far and wide to try to escape her, to move on, to follow what he thinks is the rational way forward. But by not following his heart he's just a "dying man doing time." So he realizes that he has to relinquish a bit of control and to some degree readjust how he views himself if he wants to move forward - at least, eventually, after time has finally worn his resistance to what he truly wants. |
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