| Fairport Convention – Fotheringay Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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On a literal level, this song is historical and about Mary Queen of Scots. However. I would like to suggest that this is only part of the story, and that here is a strong figurative meaning to the lyrics which gives them a much deeper resonance. The main character represents the soul trapped and limited within the body, and the desire for transcendence which can only come through death. The "captive wall" is the physical body, or the egoic mind, which we are enslaved to from birth through to death. The longing in the song expresses the soul's desire to break free from the limits of the physical body and physical experience and transcend all of its limitations. "The evening hour...fading within the dwindling sun" represents the approach of death which the soul longs for and welcomes, as they know it will set them free from the realm of matter to the realm of spirit. "Tomorrow..this hour she will be far way" refers to the end of life, where the entrapped soul is finally liberated and escapes the confines of the material (the captive wall) to the realm of spirit. Finally, free of the shackles of the physical body and the world of matter, the soul returns to its true home. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Cathedral Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I fucking love this song SO MUCH I mean, it's just sublime. I don't have the words to describe the place it takes me to. |
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| Judee Sill – Enchanted Sky Machines Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It´s about cosmic consciousness.... | |
| Sandy Denny – Late November Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sandy Denny famously said she recorded it based upon a dream. She woke up with the lyrics and the melody swirling around her head like a demon. Late November was born. What´s it about? What are dreams about? What is a sunset about? What is life about? This song is impossible to define. It sits in that mystical unconcious world were meaning is limitation, and limitation defies meaning. A place where dreams exists and life floats, free of form or definition. Like a surreal painting, Denny takes us into an alternative world, where normal logic does not hold sway. I imagine a work of a surrealist. Temples, smoke and strange creatures. Denny´s voice drifting out like incense, a voice from that nether-realm where reality shifts and floats. A reality from beyond the mundanity. A reality we visit every night in our dreams, where nothing is stable. Everything floats and dances without inhibition. But it can´t last, because the pilot (the emperor tarot card, structure, reality in all its barren indistinguishability) comes in. Denny wakens up we waken up, life moves on, monotony reasserts its dominion. We are jolted from our reverie. But something remains. A memory, hanging on the air like smoke. The one true reality that exists behind the veil. |
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| Wild Beasts – The Fun Powder Plot Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sorry to rain on the comments of the first poster about ´Fathers 4 Justice´. Nice idea, but the song is actually about gay sex. This is a booty call; my boot up your arse hole. This is a Freudian slip; my slipper in your bits. Takes on a whole new meaning right? |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Guests Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think Cohen is saying we´re all strangers in this world. Like God is having us for a dinner party And we don´t know the reasons why, but still we´re here. So we fill up the time weeping, crying or dancing. And it just goes round and round like some merry dance which we can never truly understand. And we beg and beg for some realisation, for God to reveal himself, but nothing happens. So we have to just keep on grasping in the darkness and making the most of our time in this strange place we call ´the world |
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| Joni Mitchell – Rainy Night House Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the key to this song lies in the subtle, but significant, pause after ´sun´ | |
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