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| Agnes Obel – Familiar Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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This secret love is a danger because it's between two lovers who shares the same spirit but live in the physical world. This love is invisible for the others but tangible only for them. It is difficult to live this love and actualise it in the physical : because each of the protagonists has their responsibilities in their own life and everything familiar is threatened by this love, this energy which takes on importance. |
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| Cat Stevens – Lady D'Arbanville Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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The song’s mournful narrative, in which a lover grieves for the death of the eponymous Lady D’Arbanville, is a metaphor for the end of the relationship between Cat and the American model-actress Patti D’Arbanville. Such is the sumptuous imagery of Cat lyric that it conjures thoughts of Sir John Everett Millais’ Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece ‘Ophelia’ (1851) and Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s glorious ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1832). Love is presented as an immortal rose that can survive the corporeal death of the relationship. Although the flame between lovers may have died out on this mortal plane, the dream of reawakening it in the next realm lives on. |
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