| Caetano Veloso – The Empty Boat Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[onhavapalace:22935] I'd say this is among the finest Caetano wrote in english. Some other examples aren't so good. Especially what the album Transa contains. They're a bit fishy in their content :/ | |
| Caetano Veloso – If You Hold A Stone Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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He refers to Lygia Clark's piece 'Stone and Air' (1966) What he means is that if you're able to fully perceive the weight, shape, texture a stone has, you're under a full experience of self, and the same way you give meaning to an object, you give meaning to your body, and your whole life. That experience is the 'Assembly of Self'. (loosely translated) And under his own experience of self, that existence doesn't belong to that place, and he depends on his own place and 'its stuff' to be happy. 'Marinheiro Só' is a folklore song written by Clementina de Jesus about a typical Brazilian sailor/fisherman. It's a work song, based on repetition. It depicts mostly the loneliness involved in the life held by them. Such loneliness is being experienced by Caetano in his exile. |
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| Caetano Veloso – London, London Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| He's simply tedious. There's nothing else left to do, but search flying saucers, which we all know that don't exist. | |
| Queen – The March Of The Black Queen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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interesting! I personally think the black queen is just a character Freddie created, which might have some of his own 'obscure side' - more a sexual/domination thing I guess... But the black queen might be a pastiche of different personalities. That is very common in music composition. |
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| Queen – Bicycle Race Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Why is it a problem that this song has relation to Freddie's sexual identity/behaviour? I find it pretty natural to Freddie's sexual habits be present in his songs. Someone's sexual persona is one with their social persona. And those among others together make up a composer's pesona. Sex is always a big deal to a homosexual, but not only sex. Effeminate behaviour overall. He doesn't want to disappoint pappa (and everyone else) with his girly ways. That has a consequence in his behaviour. It all comes down to an urge to break free from that "behaviour police" and just do what he wants. He isn't even up to bothering anyone with it, so what's the matter? Even if his primal intention was making a song about doing what he wants with no sexual focus, the need of making such song comes from the identity he built up in his life, which involves being judged to do many things. Bi/Gay sex is only one of those. |
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| Queen – Bicycle Race Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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lol at this comment. anal sex = something sick/perverted And whenever a topic is risky, people use metaphors. duh. Aaaaand this isn't even the case. Firstly, your pretty random perception of those words is what makes you "think" like that, and second, the hippies broke many sexual taboos in the mainstream media before that year. I find it pretty natural to Freddie's sexual habits be present in his songs. Someone's sexual persona is one with their social persona. And those among others together make up a composer's pesona. Sex is always a big deal to a homosexual, but not only sex. Effeminate behaviour overall. He doesn't want to disappoint pappa (and everyone else) with his girly ways. That has a consequence in his behaviour. It all comes down to an urge to break free from that "behaviour police" and just do what he wants, dammit. He isn't even up to bothering anyone with it, so what's the matter? Isn't it just as relevant as riding a bicycle? And even if his primal intention was making a song about doing what he wants with no sexual focus, the need of making such song comes from the identity he built up in his life, which involves being judged to do many things. |
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| Roxy Music – Psalm Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is blatantly ironic! This always seemed obviously ironic to me, not only because of the lyrics, or because Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music as a whole is usually ironic about anything, but also Ferry's voice and expression while singing it. but I came across many people that called this a "truly spiritual piece". I will explain my analysis: --- Try on your love like a new dress; The fit and the cut, your friends to impress --- Love treated as something shallow. Love is but an appearance one might keep. As the song goes on, expressions are referred to as a shell, as pure appearance as well. "Wear" kind faces and they might send kindness to you in return. Try out your god. The statement means: Try any god, and hope this god will send kindness from strangers. This is a contradiction and an ironic statement. If kindness should come from those strangers, it isn't under the power of that god. The god's coat is another allusion to the leather, the shell, the outer instead of the inner. "Believe in me" - The narrator was one to trust in the past, before Jesus belief came in between. Now, with 'head in the clouds', the one with which he's talking to is trying to see "The Lord", but fails to do so. What is to come then are random expressions of overdramatic adoration towards that god. I find funny the way Bryan says pa-ra-dise. It is very enphatic and satiric. That first half of the song is enough to see Bryan's cynical approach of religion in this song, and also enough to intuit that all super dramatic religious admiration is a satire. If Bryan has a spiritual side nowadays, he was a nihilist atheist back then while writing this song, which is highly anti-religious. Or maybe it's a satire of the religious institution and its followers. |
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