| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @willsmith I agree with this interpretation – which doesn't contradict the others but adds to them. It's unfortunate in this respect that there's a typo in the lyrics that's gotten replicated everywhere. It's not "time isn't holding up, time isn't after us", which makes no sense, but "time isn't holding US, time isn't after us", which is why "AFTER" is stressed when sung as it's the only word that changes. Time is neither holding us back nor chasing us on, in fact it doesn't exist at all ("same as it ever was"). | |
| King Crimson – Formentera Lady Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This beautiful song leads one to all kinds of dreamy interpretations, of vampires lying in the earth by day and exalting in strength and power at night, of immortality and reaching towards great wisdom, and even the awe inspiring myth of Shiva and Shakti, where Shiva dreams the world charmed by the dancing of his lover. But the reality is far more prosaic. Formentera is a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Ibiza near Spain. King Crimson spent time there, alternating between quiet wanderings amidst nature on Formentera by day, and partying by night on Ibiza. And it shows that with art, you should never let any "true" or "correct" interpretation get in the way of your own, which may as well be reality too, straining to reveal itself behind the artist's unconscious hand. |
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