| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain? Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| Life is often perceived as a series of highs and lows, good time and then bad times. Someone told Fogerty that there is usually a calm before the storm. After the storm you can expect good times again. However, Fogerty is asking "Have you ever seen the rain comin' down a sunny day?" This is of course a rhetorical question; almost everyone has seen a sunshower, and if you haven't seen one, then surely everyone knows that the phenomenon occurs. The sun and the rain can coexist. So Fogerty is denying the age-old wisdom that there are good times and then there are bad times, that there are ups and then there are downs,. Fogerty is saying that all of life is a sunshower, when the rain comes down a sunny day. If you believe in the old 'good times/bad times' dynamic then you are either incapable of experiencing joy when times seem hard, or waiting for the shoe to drop when times seem good. Life is not an alternating series of good times and bad times. Instead, all of life is both good and bad times together. | |
| Aerosmith – Walk This Way Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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| Pink Floyd – A Pillow of Winds Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"A Pillow Of Winds" "A cloud of eider down Draws around me softening the sound" A 'cloud of eiderdown' is a pillow. The right-sized pillow tends to bunch up a little around your ears, muting the outside world. The song is very much about the otherworldliness of sleep. "Sleepy time when I lie With my love by my side And she's breathing low And the candle dies." A candle's dying can be both comforting and ominous. "When night comes down you lock the door The book falls to the floor" Or 'boot.' Either way, the daytime world is being put away and they are preparing for the night. Presumably they don't lock the door until they sleep. Otherwise they feel safe with the door unlocked as long as they are home and awake, even at night. But the time of sleep is different as one is truly defenseless against the night. The change to the minor key reminds us of the dual nature of night, it is life-giving but death-like and there is never a guarantee you will wake up. "As darkness falls the waves roll by The seasons change The wind is warm." Now they are truly asleep. But for long? When you are asleep you don't really have any sense of time passing. When we fall asleep are we prepared to hibernate? How much time passes when we are dreaming? In any case the wind's being warm is nice and it jumps back up to the earlier chord which sounds quite different in this minor context. "Now wakes the owl, now sleeps the swan" The natural order of opposites, day/night. wake/sleep, life/death etc. "Behold a dream, the dream is gone" The German word DunstEwigkeitZug (vapor + eternity +whiff) describes the moment when you wake up and you can still for a brief second remember the meaning of your dream and understand everything, and then quickly forget it. "Green fields A cold rain is falling in a golden dawn." The 'golden dawn' here is metaphorical because they have not yet woken up. The 'golden dawn' is the dreamscape and it has an implication of being an eden-like afterlife or a post-rapture world. "And deep beneath the ground The early morning sounds and I go down" The key change means they are now waking up. "Sleepy time in my life With my love by my side And she's breathing low And I rise like a bird In the haze and the first rays touch the sky And the night winds die." Having communed with death he rises like a Phoenix. The ominous night winds are gone. |
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