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| David Sylvian – Waterfront Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[Dreadnowt:34503] I like your interpretation and agree with a lot of it, but I do see it as a love song of the highest type. A great love song (and story) to me is one where all of the aspects you talk about are part of it, from this spiritual contemplation to the futility of existence, it all plays a part in the way we love and affects our romantic relatonships. And these relationships are also an expression of how we manage the dazzling chaos or stimula, from the beauty of the waterfront to the rain pouring in one's heart. To me the great power of this, one of the best love songs I've heard, is that it reveals itself in the final line, narrowing down the story as the theme explodes. Another strength of this revelation is that these troubled thoughts are occurring at great distance from the loved one (maybe on tour, typically difficult situation emotionally) but at any rate this physical distance works also as a metaphor for a growing emotional distance between the lovers. And as love dies, the world reveals itself in its wistful beauty and its cold-hearted cruelty. So can that love survive this crisis? And can this love survive this godless train crash of a world? |
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