| Electric Light Orchestra – Here Is the News Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| One of my favorite songs by ELO. Fast, melodic, evocative... | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Yours Truly, 2095 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Thank you, this supports my interpretation of "Ticket to the Moon", too. | |
| Nightwish – The Islander Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Thanks for your comments on this song. The song certainly deals with an ending live, and there is plenty of space for interpretations. Who is the old sailor? We do know the names of "successful" explorers like Christopher Columbus, or even Cortez. Bearing in mind, the risk of such expeditions in those years, there must be much more forgotton explorers who failed to reach their target. Robinsons who did not return. Yet another option of interpretation. PS: Coming here from Stygian "Boat on the Water". |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Ticket to the Moon Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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During the early 80s, I was a young teenager (maybe aged 12), and there were quite a few tapes I owned for myself. ELO's Time album was one of them, and I must have listened a hundred times to it, back then. As I'm not a native English speaker, just having started learning English by then, I even copied the lyrics of all songs using my father's type writer, trying to figure out the meaning of all those beatiful songs. By then, I was (like many boys in this age), quite interested in astrophysics and in science fiction. Therefor, ELOs way to use robot voices (vocoders), or beeping synths was an additional (if not even the original) attraction for me, then. For this reason, it never came into my mind that the story of this song could be anything else but a science fiction story, set in the future (like its succeeding track "yours truly 2095", which I took for a letter back from the same guy who was going to the moon here). "Back in the 80s, when things were less complicated" - this is a kind of nostalgy towards today from a future point of view, kind of ironic, I'd say. I took the song in a direct way, as a farewell song of a moon tourist (or even worker in a colony, like in Heinlein's: Moon is a harsh mistress). P.S.: It's interesting that death and drugs seem to be read in any song, for instance also in "Boat on the River" (see there). But art is open to individual interpretation, so I am glad having found this forum. |
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| Styx – Boat On The River Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Thank you for your thoughts about this actually marvelous song. You should als try the live version (Caught in the Act). Personally, my initial understanding was also into lethal or even suicidal directions, but cassiemay10 sounds quite convincing. Did you know by the way, that "Tranquility Base" is also the landing point of Apollo (N.Armstrong & Co.) on the moon? Also note that there is a Wikipedia article on this song, it is missing any kinds of interpretation yet. @cassiemay10: Do you have any sources / references for your information about Tommys farm? |
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