to me, the minstrel in the gallery is a metaphor for the "god that lives in you and me" mentioned in "My God" on the aqualung album
the gallery is the upper landing so to speak and the minstrel is the upper you so to speak
up in the gallery observing looking down from on high, the ancient metaphor that your conciousness is really god having an experience in your body, he is thus the minstrel in the gallery, he makes the music, he leads the band it's all metaphor.
he looks down on the "rabbit run" referenced in the song "skating away" in the line "you're a rabbit on the run" a metaphor for someone lost in their lower self so they are "on the run" or in fear as they are not understanding their own fears and terrors while lost in a lower mode of conciousness so to speak
he throws away his looking glass
he "falls awake" he wakens or rather we waken to him in us
and we realise that he is in fact all of us
once we let go of our attachment to the separateness of body and ego etc etc we learn that we are indeed all one, god having a separate experience in all of us but that ultimately
he will call the band down to the stage and look on all the friends he made
like the lyric
when all is one and one is all
or here in this lyric
the pretender is barred & cannot enter
while the true son is welcome anytime
two men in the field but only one has a hope
the other is blind and has more than enough rope
when push comes to shove you'll know who is who
but wrap your mind around this
both of them are you!
yes minstrel in the gallery to me is masterful metaphor for the idea that we are part animal part god
and this minstrel, this god in us, look at what he does in the song
through all the quirky ugliness and ambiguity of life he brings forth his son
to me, the minstrel in the gallery is a metaphor for the "god that lives in you and me" mentioned in "My God" on the aqualung album
the gallery is the upper landing so to speak and the minstrel is the upper you so to speak
up in the gallery observing looking down from on high, the ancient metaphor that your conciousness is really god having an experience in your body, he is thus the minstrel in the gallery, he makes the music, he leads the band it's all metaphor.
he looks down on the "rabbit run" referenced in the song "skating away" in the line "you're a rabbit on the run" a metaphor for someone lost in their lower self so they are "on the run" or in fear as they are not understanding their own fears and terrors while lost in a lower mode of conciousness so to speak
he throws away his looking glass
he "falls awake" he wakens or rather we waken to him in us
and we realise that he is in fact all of us
once we let go of our attachment to the separateness of body and ego etc etc we learn that we are indeed all one, god having a separate experience in all of us but that ultimately
he will call the band down to the stage and look on all the friends he made
like the lyric
when all is one and one is all
or here in this lyric
the pretender is barred & cannot enter while the true son is welcome anytime two men in the field but only one has a hope the other is blind and has more than enough rope when push comes to shove you'll know who is who but wrap your mind around this both of them are you!
yes minstrel in the gallery to me is masterful metaphor for the idea that we are part animal part god
and this minstrel, this god in us, look at what he does in the song
through all the quirky ugliness and ambiguity of life he brings forth his son
his band of merry men
his friends
his very own