The missing lyric is "if it's good shit you won't know and I won't know the fact . . ."
I think the album may have better been ended with this song rather than "distorted reality," which could have been placed earlier. My reason comes from the last several lines: "all things have a place under the moon as well as the sun." These lines to me represent the most affirming moment of the record and offer relief from the darkness that encompasses the rest. With these lines, I believe Elliott is reassuring himself and all of us that the pain he has experienced and set to music, indeed his life, his death, are all part of a greater human experience, not all of which is about suffering (as his life was not all about this), but of which suffering is a necessary, inescapable part. His art was about describing human frailty, inner pain, and external conflict with unflinching honesty - that he set all this to some of the most beautiful melody ever written accomplishes in song a portrayal of life's ever-present dialectic between suffering and joy. In this way, he accomplishes what only the greatest artists and literary figures have done.
The missing lyric is "if it's good shit you won't know and I won't know the fact . . ."
I think the album may have better been ended with this song rather than "distorted reality," which could have been placed earlier. My reason comes from the last several lines: "all things have a place under the moon as well as the sun." These lines to me represent the most affirming moment of the record and offer relief from the darkness that encompasses the rest. With these lines, I believe Elliott is reassuring himself and all of us that the pain he has experienced and set to music, indeed his life, his death, are all part of a greater human experience, not all of which is about suffering (as his life was not all about this), but of which suffering is a necessary, inescapable part. His art was about describing human frailty, inner pain, and external conflict with unflinching honesty - that he set all this to some of the most beautiful melody ever written accomplishes in song a portrayal of life's ever-present dialectic between suffering and joy. In this way, he accomplishes what only the greatest artists and literary figures have done.