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Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.
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Edit lightly
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When in doubt, ask the crowd
Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.
I just don't agree with Ddadutta. The song revolves around two people bound together somehow:
I just don't agree with Ddadutta. The song revolves around two people bound together somehow:
"if you can't get it, I can't get it" and following lines which refer to some kind of reliance on each other. Could it be two different people, or perhaps if there is some space-time continuum thing, we could have an older version of a person talking to his younger self (reflection made manifest)
"if you can't get it, I can't get it" and following lines which refer to some kind of reliance on each other. Could it be two different people, or perhaps if there is some space-time continuum thing, we could have an older version of a person talking to his younger self (reflection made manifest)
The shades of sixteen part you can dissect into a million meanings but I just cannot think of it as age; that makes no sense to me.
The shades of sixteen part you can dissect into a million meanings but I just cannot think of it as age; that makes no sense to me.
Shades of...
Shades of sixteen can possibly be in reference to 16 shades of a color, gray perhaps but I have two other thoughts.
In mythology a shade is a "presence" of someone who resides in the Underworld; the shade is their manifestation in "our" world. Could is be that there could be 16 shades that are confronting the two? (And if you want to get into specifics of the significance of the number 16, in Numerology Number sixteen warns of some strange calamity, defeat of plans, disgrace, accidents, deception, and adversity. It indicates the karma of former illegitimate love affairs. Number sixteen offers the test of optimism and faith. "If number sixteen is found as the total of the soul's urge, it shows false friends and broken dreams. If it appears as the destiny number, it warns of loss of name, position, fortune, and power. If it is the number of the total birthpath, then all the tragedies must be learned - love to lose, rise to fall. You must not cling to the material.)
Perhaps this song is a Shade talking to a loved one for all we know; perhaps that loved one recently died and is crossing the Styx (it all seems farfetched but mythology such as this is right up Mastodon's alley)
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Maybe about when you're sixteen and your whole life is ahead of you and youre somewhat "free" (fly - soul is single - wind beneath us)
I just don't agree with Ddadutta. The song revolves around two people bound together somehow:
I just don't agree with Ddadutta. The song revolves around two people bound together somehow:
"if you can't get it, I can't get it" and following lines which refer to some kind of reliance on each other. Could it be two different people, or perhaps if there is some space-time continuum thing, we could have an older version of a person talking to his younger self (reflection made manifest)
"if you can't get it, I can't get it" and following lines which refer to some kind of reliance on each other. Could it be two different people, or perhaps if there is some space-time continuum thing, we could have an older version of a person talking to his younger self (reflection made manifest)
The shades of sixteen part you can dissect into a million meanings but I just cannot think of it as age; that makes no sense to me.
The shades of sixteen part you can dissect into a million meanings but I just cannot think of it as age; that makes no sense to me.
Shades of...
Shades of sixteen can possibly be in reference to 16 shades of a color, gray perhaps but I have two other thoughts.
In mythology a shade is a "presence" of someone who resides in the Underworld; the shade is their manifestation in "our" world. Could is be that there could be 16 shades that are confronting the two? (And if you want to get into specifics of the significance of the number 16, in Numerology Number sixteen warns of some strange calamity, defeat of plans, disgrace, accidents, deception, and adversity. It indicates the karma of former illegitimate love affairs. Number sixteen offers the test of optimism and faith. "If number sixteen is found as the total of the soul's urge, it shows false friends and broken dreams. If it appears as the destiny number, it warns of loss of name, position, fortune, and power. If it is the number of the total birthpath, then all the tragedies must be learned - love to lose, rise to fall. You must not cling to the material.)
Perhaps this song is a Shade talking to a loved one for all we know; perhaps that loved one recently died and is crossing the Styx (it all seems farfetched but mythology such as this is right up Mastodon's alley)
Ddadutta's explination has a ring of correctness...
No idea what it could mean, nor do I know what an extinct branch of sea creatures has to do with the song.
Bad ass, though. I could see myself driving - at sixteen, mind you - with this playing.
Looking at yourself in the past, maybe when you were sixteen and realizing that you really haven't changed