I was surprised to find Custom Kings on here seeing as they're are relatively unknown though they are awesome.
miss vicious is right. I didn't know the meaning behind the song until a few days ago when I started reading Cloudstreet and the name Rose Pickles opened the first chapter.
It's a really beautiful book and the song is beautiful to match, haunting and really sweet. The woman's ghostly voice at the beginning and the sound of cicada's all the way through are so perfect for the song and the story. I don't think it's just my hearing, isn't the second line/second verse 'I gave her a green bottle gilded with gold'...it doesn't make sense the way it's written at any rate.
Also 'the girl just wants to get wasted' could both be talking about her mother's drinking habit and also the periods when Rose starves herself = won't eat the food and becomes wasted.
'I read the best words the mans ever written' seems to be commenting on her relationship with Toby and how though he was intellectual and a way escape from her past, she still always came back to Cloudstreet.
I was surprised to find Custom Kings on here seeing as they're are relatively unknown though they are awesome. miss vicious is right. I didn't know the meaning behind the song until a few days ago when I started reading Cloudstreet and the name Rose Pickles opened the first chapter.
It's a really beautiful book and the song is beautiful to match, haunting and really sweet. The woman's ghostly voice at the beginning and the sound of cicada's all the way through are so perfect for the song and the story. I don't think it's just my hearing, isn't the second line/second verse 'I gave her a green bottle gilded with gold'...it doesn't make sense the way it's written at any rate.
Also 'the girl just wants to get wasted' could both be talking about her mother's drinking habit and also the periods when Rose starves herself = won't eat the food and becomes wasted. 'I read the best words the mans ever written' seems to be commenting on her relationship with Toby and how though he was intellectual and a way escape from her past, she still always came back to Cloudstreet.