well, this song is about how Virginia Woolf inspired Emily Saliers (the songwriter)...and, ironically, now Emily has inspired us (well, I, for one, am inspired...this song has touched me more deeply than anything else I've listened to in the last couple of years)...this song is both deeply emotional and deeply philosophical
a lot of the song speaks directly about Virginia's life, for instance:
the men of anger (Virginia was sexually abused by her step-brother)
and the women of the page (...and, of course, she was a writer)
key to the room of your own (more or less a direct quote from Virginia)
the moon swallowed the sun (Virginia witnessed and wrote about the solar eclipse of, I think it was, 1926?)
the river eclipsed your life (Virginia was mentally ill, and ultimately drowned herself by putting heavy rocks in her pockets and jumping in a river)
anyway, I think the main theme is that, if you can inspire people, or even just one person, even after you've died, you have essentially achieved immortality (as Emily puts it, "weathered the storm of cruel mortality")
and on a more simple level, I think this song is a thank you to Virginia for her inspiration
well, this song is about how Virginia Woolf inspired Emily Saliers (the songwriter)...and, ironically, now Emily has inspired us (well, I, for one, am inspired...this song has touched me more deeply than anything else I've listened to in the last couple of years)...this song is both deeply emotional and deeply philosophical
a lot of the song speaks directly about Virginia's life, for instance:
the men of anger (Virginia was sexually abused by her step-brother) and the women of the page (...and, of course, she was a writer)
key to the room of your own (more or less a direct quote from Virginia)
the moon swallowed the sun (Virginia witnessed and wrote about the solar eclipse of, I think it was, 1926?)
the river eclipsed your life (Virginia was mentally ill, and ultimately drowned herself by putting heavy rocks in her pockets and jumping in a river)
anyway, I think the main theme is that, if you can inspire people, or even just one person, even after you've died, you have essentially achieved immortality (as Emily puts it, "weathered the storm of cruel mortality")
and on a more simple level, I think this song is a thank you to Virginia for her inspiration