| Brian Eno – Blank Frank Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I would think that by not capitalizing the word "frank," Eno is talking about truth, the frankness of truth, or the result of it's revealing, especially when someone's bluntness in speaking truth can be a bit of an explosion, so to speak. Very often, the truth can be quite harsh, blatant, and revealing. In our society, truth is not something that is always welcome and, in some cases, isn't necessarily appropriate. Some things do not always have to be said. While most will create their own "truths," so to speak, as a means of getting through their lives or justifying their actions and ideas, that doesn't mean those truths are correct or accurate. They are either at best opinions or at worst self-delusion, which is why when truth makes itself present, it can reveal to others, if not hopefully ourselves, the foolishness of those truths. It is often the kind of foolishness that is so obvious that it can't help but cock its head at us in contemptible wonder. Truth can do and lead to much that doesn't have to be spelled out explicitly here, but it is often a bomb, an ever-present factor in our existence regardless of whatever we believe, acknowledge, or ignore. Its presence sits quietly behind doors, under rugs, in bottles, and even carefully taped over and blotted from view on the menus of our lives. And there it will remain, wherever we may have hidden it, at least for awhile. If we're lucky, we may fool or at least throw people off the scent for a bit, but not forever. No matter where you run, no matter what diversions you create, and no matter what you order from your life's menu, it is always going to be part of its original printing of permanent offerings, always waiting for someone to come along asking for it or actually serving it up. |
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| Aimee Mann – This Is How It Goes Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think sometimes we look for secret meanings in lyrics where there isn\'t. \n\nSometimes a song is pretty straight forward. If you listen to the words and how heartbreaking the melody and chord progression is, you just know there is a complex mess of love and addiction within it. If I hadn\'t been in that relationship so many years ago myself, I might give in to the alternative suggestions that this is about the music industry, or having beauty to sell.\n\nYou can be deeply in love with someone, and they with you, but when there is a third party in the relationship, there are going to be problems. And in this case, that third party is drugs. \n\nNo matter how much someone who suffers from addiction loves you, if they have lost themselves and are out of control, the need for that drug will always take precedent. It will destroy every element of their lives, and it will destroy you as well if you stay with them. That is how powerful that addiction is. \n\nThe lyrics are quite clear about this. She is explaining the routine of his addiction, all the phases he passes through before finally giving into it. His anger at his urges, his attempts at denying his needs, and yet failing once again because that need is just too strong to withstand.\n\nWith every time he fails and falls into his addiction, after it passes he is swimming in shame. Each time he gives in to it, he knows he is not only failing you, but hurting you and ultimately killing the relationship. And his shame is so deep that it makes his need for his drug of choice even stronger, just to make it fade away for a while.\n\nAnd each time he falls down that hole, you will know because you\'ve gone through this with him for so long. And each time he promises you that he is going to kick it this time, you will know he won\'t. Yet you keep holding on, and keep trying to keep going with this relationship, you empathize with his pain because you know his shame at hurting you as well. You just can\'t face the reality of what might happen to him, if you finally do give up on him and leave.\n\nAs for the opening stanzas, she knows this routine well. She knows his disappointment in himself. She can hear the alarm growing louder as the bells of his need ring on and on, so loud that only his next hit will silence them.\n\nThe real sadness is that she seems to stay with this relationship, even though she has the routine of it down like the chords of a song. He can\'t hide his addiction from her, she knows him too well, and she knows the drugs effects well too. She washes, rinses, and repeats over and over, and with each time it happens she knows she is losing bits and pieces of herself along the way. Yet, she stays… for now. | |
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