I think the last stanza reveals what Addle Brains' all about, a theme that carries on from Song in the Key of Chance, and well, to some degree nearly every song on Augie's 'Strange Bird' album.
"But to reason with a dry mouth and a half-open eye some people weren't born to dance,
While others are halted mid-step to the beat of a song in the key of chance."
Often Glen refers in some way to class, the disadvantaged, and also the tenuousness of these distinctions. That is, the agonising 'chance' of these distinctions that divide and define us.
"All it takes, it takes, is a kind look and a word, a word,
Some pretty eyes and skin, from your fine family you were given to win,
and spill it over into the basin of common sin,
just a drop, a drop of the stuff that makes us kin
Addle Brains perching way out on a limb."
Those separated by blood are often worlds apart. "O the hungry sky aches for blokes without folks and bulges with the beares of palls." It's a beautiful, kinda tragic song, particularly considering it has a really whimsical sound.
If Little Wonder, Sunstroke House and The Keepa describe lives lived in regret, Addle Brains and Song in the Key of Chance are those not even given the chance.
I think the last stanza reveals what Addle Brains' all about, a theme that carries on from Song in the Key of Chance, and well, to some degree nearly every song on Augie's 'Strange Bird' album.
"But to reason with a dry mouth and a half-open eye some people weren't born to dance, While others are halted mid-step to the beat of a song in the key of chance."
Often Glen refers in some way to class, the disadvantaged, and also the tenuousness of these distinctions. That is, the agonising 'chance' of these distinctions that divide and define us.
"All it takes, it takes, is a kind look and a word, a word, Some pretty eyes and skin, from your fine family you were given to win, and spill it over into the basin of common sin, just a drop, a drop of the stuff that makes us kin
Those separated by blood are often worlds apart. "O the hungry sky aches for blokes without folks and bulges with the beares of palls." It's a beautiful, kinda tragic song, particularly considering it has a really whimsical sound.
If Little Wonder, Sunstroke House and The Keepa describe lives lived in regret, Addle Brains and Song in the Key of Chance are those not even given the chance.