| Jonathan King – Everyone's Gone to the Moon Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[CuteSparkina:50723] I saw this interpretation of yours in another forum and thought it was an lovely one. I honestly think King kind of free associated the lyrics so you can make what you want of them and I think your interpretation 'works' especially as the song is melancholy and oddly suggestive and moving. It also gets that sense of alienation and unreality which soldiers often feel. I personally always saw it as a science-fiction dystopia: a bit like the song 'in the year 2525' but sad rather than scary and grim. In this future, humans are kind of weak and pathetic, possibly fed nice things by carer machines, their organs replaced by artificial parts, and everything is just a bad imitation of what it used to be like when humans were in charge (houses/homes, church/singing). Yes, people are living on the moon, but is it really living? The 60s were a golden era of science fiction, and hippie culture referenced SF extensively: there was almost a grab-bag of futuristic ideas that anyone could access and which turn up in a number of songs. In modern times this could be taken further and seen as a future in which we are divorced from nature, and from our own true natures. I suspect though, that the appeal of the song is in it's strange ambiguity: the nursery-rhyme lyrics make no literal sense and so it's left to the listener to make the song work. That's true with all music to an extent, but the power of this song is that it says so little but feels like it's saying a lot! |
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