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Be it sight, sound, the smell, the touch...
There's something inside that we need so much.
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground,
The wonder of flowers to be covered
And then to burst up through tarmac to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things in our memory's hoard
And to use them,
To help us,
To find......
Ha ha ha! [etc]
There's something inside that we need so much.
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground,
The wonder of flowers to be covered
And then to burst up through tarmac to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things in our memory's hoard
And to use them,
To help us,
To find......
Ha ha ha! [etc]
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Submitted by
weezerific:cutlery On Jan 06, 2002
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Another of Graeme's poems put to... 'music'. Sorta. Sure, someone is going to say it's an 'acid trip'. Ooh, that's original. Geez. How about going BEYOND that and saying it's about thinking outside the box and perceiving everyday things that we take for granted in a new light - it's all around if we could but perceive.
This song is a GREAT lead-in to Ride My See-saw that follows. The tension builds and builds until finally some relief comes in the form of that drum beat and stinging guitar. Awesome.
This song always makes me picture a Lunatic blasting off into space that gets crazier the higher he goes until he finally loses it. I always thought this song would have fit perfectly on To Our Childrens Childrens Chilren.
@Digi-G precisely what i stated in my comment just before replying to your thought that the building crescendo was not unlike such, on atleast one composition off of CCC.
@Digi-G precisely what i stated in my comment just before replying to your thought that the building crescendo was not unlike such, on atleast one composition off of CCC.
To begin with, the lyrics posted here should read "To find THE LOST CHORD" at the end. Even if this song's lyrics arose from an acid trip, that only ever affects word choice, lol. The imagery is still reflective of HOPE: a deeply-rooted oak tree, a flower persisting to bloom through an airport tarmac, flying to the sun without burning/losing wings. Each of those imagery examples represent PERSISTENT HOPE. As in "hope springs anew" with the living things, and the naive hope even in the face of adversity as Icarus flies to the sun with man-made wings, all these images are ones of HOPE. However, the purpose of HOPE is to fulfill that need mentioned in the second line which is LOVE. Without HOPE, people don't struggle to find LOVE after that first bad break-up, but the "chord" (that's ironically "lost" from the entry) is "lost" unless it's vibrating inside. Metaphysical theory stipulates that people who feel as though they share "connections" actual share energy "chords" and we also use the image of chords to describe LOVE as in our heartstrings sing when we meet that person with whom we share a connection. Physical science also supports geological "attuned" spots that have predictable physical events that support the human chord theory. People need HOPE to find LOVE and eventually the LOST CHORD. For the more pessimistic, LOVE does not have to be romantic love. It could also apply to love of humanity or passion for something of substance in life.
It's not so much about trying to find something as it is about trying to define what that intangible missing thing is. I think it's different for everyone; it could be something you don't have or something you should get rid of, something you're not doing or something you need to stop doing. That's really what the whole album's about, each song describing something new or different that a person might need to achieve enlightenment, represented by the last song, "Om".
It said there were three comments on this song-maybe I missed something and was supposed to go 'someplace' to find them. Anyway, I was hoping to read them, and maybe play a bit of what they had to say. It seems that the theme from their second album release in '69 (Children's, Children's, Children) was about the moon landing and such during, as the actual landing took place while recording that album. To me, SOME of the lyrics of this lyrically loaded what? -one minute composition impress me as being along those lines.