He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
it appears (it appears)
unavoidable
glittering stars
star shines
they'll come to you (they'll come to you)
they'll come to you
diamonds deep
in the earth
sparkle though they can't be seen
it can hardly be conceived
oooh (oooh, oooh)
open yourself
you will become the light you see
unavoidable
glittering stars
star shines
they'll come to you (they'll come to you)
they'll come to you
diamonds deep
in the earth
sparkle though they can't be seen
it can hardly be conceived
oooh (oooh, oooh)
open yourself
you will become the light you see
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
after playing this song when i saw her, she said it was about an atomic bomb explosion. i know im supposed to imput my own interpretation of it, but i can't. haha. not after her saying that.
hey landomandojando, would you be willing to share? i'm curious what your interpretation of it is, despite her saying it was about an atomic bomb.
well that makes my correction all the more legit. the last line is:
"you will become the light you see."
god kaki king is beautiful. Her looks and her music.
god kaki king is beautiful. Her looks and her music.
Ah, I love this song. I never knew it was about an atomic explosion...haha.
yellowcake is an intermediary step in processing uranium en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
it sounds like "glittering stars are shards" -- but her poetry is so mysterious to me i don't think it even matters
the atomic bomb explosion makes so much sense! also, i hear "it can hardly be conceived" rather than "it can hardly become seen"
the "it" in "it appears" could be the appearance of the explosion the radiation will "come to you"
uranium is there, it is there in the earth like "diamonds deep" the processing of uranium "can hardly be conceived" but because the laws of physics are universal, and because atomic bombs are supposedly not that hard to build, an atomic bomb is still possible to make.
i see it as during the atomic bomb explosion, instead of being scared and curling up into a fetal position, rather to "open yourself" and accept your mortality, and "become the light you see"
The fourth to last line is not:
"It can hardly become seen".
It's:
"It can hardly be conceived."
I'd like to imagine that when she says atomic bomb explosion she meant it as a metaphor...