This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Morning bright, rise
Go over your lines
Iron your carefully crafted disguise
We'd all like to sing
It's easy to sigh
To sprinkle a handful or plausible lies
Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes
Publicly smile and privately frown
A weeping reprise
Please hear my cries
I'd like to pull just this one building down
So turn off the sky
Head in my hands
Night keep me warm
White window-sill
Blinded by heart
Cut my hair short
"Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill"
Go over your lines
Iron your carefully crafted disguise
We'd all like to sing
It's easy to sigh
To sprinkle a handful or plausible lies
Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes
Publicly smile and privately frown
A weeping reprise
Please hear my cries
I'd like to pull just this one building down
So turn off the sky
Head in my hands
Night keep me warm
White window-sill
Blinded by heart
Cut my hair short
"Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill"
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
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this is wonderfully soft and sweet song to listen to. It is about the story of Samson. If you would like to read the biblical account, read Judges 13-16 in the old testament.
does anybody know what "Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill." refers to?
wow i didn't know the weakerthans had any religious overtones...nice
i actually just picked up a book called eyeless in gaza by aldous huxley and i'm gonna start reading it soon, i'll update you on that
i actually just picked up a book called eyeless in gaza by aldous huxley and i'm gonna start reading it soon, i'll update you on that
this song is enchanting, beautiful music. always makes me think about my new flame, i dont know why...
"Eyeless in Gaza With the Slaves at the Mill" is from Samsons Agonistes by John Milton.
dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml
This song is, I believe, comparative of Samson's situation and John's own.
"Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill." refers to the fact that the dude in the story became blind and was forced to work on a grindstone of a mill.
The song starts out in the third-person and ends in the first. This explains why the first half doesn't really seem to go with the Sampson theme.
I believe that the first half is about a preacher or reverend or what have you that has lost faith but continues to preach. He tells the story of Sampson's death at his gathering. I suppose he has a good reason for picking this particular tale, but I can't elegantly explain it.