Have you guys ever listened to The Beatles' song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Well if you read the lyrics you will see that none of it makes sense, which makes the song that much more interesting.
This my interpretation of Northern Downpour. I may be wrong but this is my best shot:
"If all our life is but a dream
Fantastic posing greed
Then we should feed our jewelry to the sea
For diamonds do appear to be
Just like broken glass to me"
-Basically if our life is nothing but a huge illusion of us [people] being indulged with material things, then we shouldn't care it because it's just a dream, and in the end we will always wake up to reality. So frankly diamonds or any other type of nice accessory don't mean anything. There are more important things.
As for 'Fanstastic Posing Greed', I think of the 7 deadly sins. Indulgence, greed, vanity, and pretty much everything that a materalistic person does
We should live a world where material crap shouldn't be the most important thing.
"And then she said she cant believe
Genius only comes along in storms of fabled foreign tongues
Tripping eyes and flooded lungs
Northern downpour sends its love"
-I'm guessing this means that the girl is overwhelmed by the fact that the perfect "love" can only be found in make-believe fairies tale which are all foriegn and in a different languages [tongues]. All those fairies tales like snow white, cinderella and beauty and the beast are foreign. "Tripping eyes" means graceful stare and "Flooded" means hectic or busy... Lungs supply oxygen which we need to live. So Busy/hectic Life yet she's beautful ...because busy people tend to be stressed and become ugly-looking kinda, and then "northern downpour" could be tears coming "down"... "Sends its love" Love is an emotion so she basically cried all her emotions.
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down"
-Of course this means that the person doesn't want to wake from their good happy dream
"Sugarcane in the easy morning
Weathervanes my one and lonely"
-This was hard. Sugarcane is highly rich in sugar... people are always saying that you shouldn't consume so much sugar in the morning because it makes you super hyper yet you end up crashing within an hour and you feel like shit. Sugar is bad for you, period. It can cause alot of illnesses. So I think that the person is sort of using sugarcane as a drug so that they can fall back asleep or be lethargic, or possibly die...and in the morning you're body is barely waking up so loading yourself with sugar is BAD! Weathervanes? Ugh those are up in the roof and they show the direction of the wind, so maybe the person needs some guidance because the weather vane is pretty much their only friend… since its lonely=friendless as well.
“The ink is running toward the page
It's chasing off the days.
Look back at both feet and that winding knee
I missed your skin when you were east
You clicked your heels and wished for me”
-Days are going by, I suppose. The person is thinking back and thinking about two pasts…. This was harder, but that’s what I think it means… wow this song is depressing. Still love it though.
“Through playful lips made of yarn
That fragile Capricorn
Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves
I know the worlds a broken bone
But melt your headaches call it home”
-‘Yarn’ also means: “A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as to spin a yarn”. So everything coming from the person’s mouth [lips] could just be invented, and ‘playful’ could mean ‘teasing’… because when you “spin” yarn you’re revolving it and whirling it in different directions “changing things”, so maybe the person simply can’t get their story straight! And Capricorns are practical and down-to-earth signs, so they know the world is literally busted and messed up. The “fragile” part. Maybe at one point they experienced something distressing, so when they spoke their words where repulsive, as a scarf eaten by moths would look like. As for headaches they are caused by annoyances or problems LOL
…So through her phony mouth she/he [the weak Capricorn] spoke awful words. But who cares what The Capricorn says cuz the world is messed up anyway. So just forget it and go home!
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down
You are at the top of my lungs
Drawn to the ones who never yawn"
-I think this means... Hey dream/fantasy don't go away because you are at the top of my lungs.. again Lungs=Life... So the dreams/fantasies are the only thing that keep him/her/whoever striving in life in hopes that someday they will become reality.
Have you guys ever listened to The Beatles' song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Well if you read the lyrics you will see that none of it makes sense, which makes the song that much more interesting. This my interpretation of Northern Downpour. I may be wrong but this is my best shot:
"If all our life is but a dream Fantastic posing greed Then we should feed our jewelry to the sea For diamonds do appear to be Just like broken glass to me"
-Basically if our life is nothing but a huge illusion of us [people] being indulged with material things, then we shouldn't care it because it's just a dream, and in the end we will always wake up to reality. So frankly diamonds or any other type of nice accessory don't mean anything. There are more important things. As for 'Fanstastic Posing Greed', I think of the 7 deadly sins. Indulgence, greed, vanity, and pretty much everything that a materalistic person does We should live a world where material crap shouldn't be the most important thing.
"And then she said she cant believe Genius only comes along in storms of fabled foreign tongues Tripping eyes and flooded lungs Northern downpour sends its love"
-I'm guessing this means that the girl is overwhelmed by the fact that the perfect "love" can only be found in make-believe fairies tale which are all foriegn and in a different languages [tongues]. All those fairies tales like snow white, cinderella and beauty and the beast are foreign. "Tripping eyes" means graceful stare and "Flooded" means hectic or busy... Lungs supply oxygen which we need to live. So Busy/hectic Life yet she's beautful ...because busy people tend to be stressed and become ugly-looking kinda, and then "northern downpour" could be tears coming "down"... "Sends its love" Love is an emotion so she basically cried all her emotions.
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down Hey moon, don't you go down"
-Of course this means that the person doesn't want to wake from their good happy dream
"Sugarcane in the easy morning Weathervanes my one and lonely" -This was hard. Sugarcane is highly rich in sugar... people are always saying that you shouldn't consume so much sugar in the morning because it makes you super hyper yet you end up crashing within an hour and you feel like shit. Sugar is bad for you, period. It can cause alot of illnesses. So I think that the person is sort of using sugarcane as a drug so that they can fall back asleep or be lethargic, or possibly die...and in the morning you're body is barely waking up so loading yourself with sugar is BAD! Weathervanes? Ugh those are up in the roof and they show the direction of the wind, so maybe the person needs some guidance because the weather vane is pretty much their only friend… since its lonely=friendless as well.
“The ink is running toward the page It's chasing off the days. Look back at both feet and that winding knee I missed your skin when you were east You clicked your heels and wished for me”
-Days are going by, I suppose. The person is thinking back and thinking about two pasts…. This was harder, but that’s what I think it means… wow this song is depressing. Still love it though.
“Through playful lips made of yarn That fragile Capricorn Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves I know the worlds a broken bone But melt your headaches call it home”
-‘Yarn’ also means: “A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as to spin a yarn”. So everything coming from the person’s mouth [lips] could just be invented, and ‘playful’ could mean ‘teasing’… because when you “spin” yarn you’re revolving it and whirling it in different directions “changing things”, so maybe the person simply can’t get their story straight! And Capricorns are practical and down-to-earth signs, so they know the world is literally busted and messed up. The “fragile” part. Maybe at one point they experienced something distressing, so when they spoke their words where repulsive, as a scarf eaten by moths would look like. As for headaches they are caused by annoyances or problems LOL …So through her phony mouth she/he [the weak Capricorn] spoke awful words. But who cares what The Capricorn says cuz the world is messed up anyway. So just forget it and go home!
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down Hey moon, don't you go down You are at the top of my lungs Drawn to the ones who never yawn"
-I think this means... Hey dream/fantasy don't go away because you are at the top of my lungs.. again Lungs=Life... So the dreams/fantasies are the only thing that keep him/her/whoever striving in life in hopes that someday they will become reality.
i think that is an awesome interpretation, i had never looked at it in that way before.
i think that is an awesome interpretation, i had never looked at it in that way before.
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