First, I love love love how the line goes, "Someone that I met but I hardly knew" in reference to the guy who parts ways with diction, and "Someone that I knew but I hardly met" in reference to the girl who made his heart soft and had never been to Texas. I think this play on words may be very telling/meaningful. I believe it suggests that there are different kinds of strangers, and that meeting and knowing someone are two very different things.
Second, while we're on the topic of strangers, I find it very interesting that this topic is also mentioned in the line, "Hung up and bent on a stranger," from The Infinite Pet, and "I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance," from The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine. I find it double-interesting that this figure, Eddie, shows up in both Valentine and Eddie's Ragga.
Third, I find it interesting that the word, "ignite" shows up here as well in the line, "I turn my feelings on inside, Feel like I'm gonna ignite," from I Turn my Camera On. In Camera, I believe the line describes an explosive emotional epiphony, and it's interesting to apply that same meaning in Eddie's Ragga.
Putting it all together, I think this song is about someone who has a defective heart (perhaps even someone whose feelings have been, "untouchable for life," to quote Camera, although that may be taking things a bit far), and he receives affection from a girl he felt like he knew (although they'd hardly met) and, "then the place ignite, It's in my face...," because he had an ephiphony of some sort where, "Anyone that I knew woulda called me found". However, although most people get to know the people they meet, this is a story about whether to meet again with someone who he already felt like he knew. In the end, however, it appears the reunion will not occur, because he thinks to himself, "this could be easy or I could face it alone", "and then the place ignite, all out of grace and I'm behind the bassline", because he has opted for the aversive route, perhaps almost as though he were hiding behind the song.
I'll be posting a few more comments for Ga^5 and Gimme Fiction songs on this site. Thanks for reading.
Wow, that is quite the in depth look at things! I don't have much to say here other than to congradulate / agree with you. It's interesting, I always thought the word 'stranger' in "the Stranger Dance" (Monsieur Valntine) was used in the context of 'unusual'. Your explanation tying together the two songs is impossibly clever.
Wow, that is quite the in depth look at things! I don't have much to say here other than to congradulate / agree with you. It's interesting, I always thought the word 'stranger' in "the Stranger Dance" (Monsieur Valntine) was used in the context of 'unusual'. Your explanation tying together the two songs is impossibly clever.
First, I love love love how the line goes, "Someone that I met but I hardly knew" in reference to the guy who parts ways with diction, and "Someone that I knew but I hardly met" in reference to the girl who made his heart soft and had never been to Texas. I think this play on words may be very telling/meaningful. I believe it suggests that there are different kinds of strangers, and that meeting and knowing someone are two very different things.
Second, while we're on the topic of strangers, I find it very interesting that this topic is also mentioned in the line, "Hung up and bent on a stranger," from The Infinite Pet, and "I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance," from The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine. I find it double-interesting that this figure, Eddie, shows up in both Valentine and Eddie's Ragga.
Third, I find it interesting that the word, "ignite" shows up here as well in the line, "I turn my feelings on inside, Feel like I'm gonna ignite," from I Turn my Camera On. In Camera, I believe the line describes an explosive emotional epiphony, and it's interesting to apply that same meaning in Eddie's Ragga.
Putting it all together, I think this song is about someone who has a defective heart (perhaps even someone whose feelings have been, "untouchable for life," to quote Camera, although that may be taking things a bit far), and he receives affection from a girl he felt like he knew (although they'd hardly met) and, "then the place ignite, It's in my face...," because he had an ephiphony of some sort where, "Anyone that I knew woulda called me found". However, although most people get to know the people they meet, this is a story about whether to meet again with someone who he already felt like he knew. In the end, however, it appears the reunion will not occur, because he thinks to himself, "this could be easy or I could face it alone", "and then the place ignite, all out of grace and I'm behind the bassline", because he has opted for the aversive route, perhaps almost as though he were hiding behind the song.
I'll be posting a few more comments for Ga^5 and Gimme Fiction songs on this site. Thanks for reading.
Wow, that is quite the in depth look at things! I don't have much to say here other than to congradulate / agree with you. It's interesting, I always thought the word 'stranger' in "the Stranger Dance" (Monsieur Valntine) was used in the context of 'unusual'. Your explanation tying together the two songs is impossibly clever.
Wow, that is quite the in depth look at things! I don't have much to say here other than to congradulate / agree with you. It's interesting, I always thought the word 'stranger' in "the Stranger Dance" (Monsieur Valntine) was used in the context of 'unusual'. Your explanation tying together the two songs is impossibly clever.