This is truly an amazing song. The guitar work is quite extraordinary. The meaning is more difficult to get behind, at least for me. I kind of like these puzzling songs.
The first first definitely is talking about a relationship he had that faded because his heart was "being pulled at by another" and he didn't want to tell his girlfriend and break her heart, but he knews it's the best thing he can do. She "deserves to hear it all from the start."
He goes on to talk about the circumstances surrounding his new-found love. "I was on my own, I was living to love you. For the first time I was home in the world of my mother, we spoke to eachother, from the tone in your voice I foresaw. You and I were on our way out!" So just in talking to her he realizes that the relationship is fading.
Now, in the song "We Sing in Time" he uses the words "Sing the Body Electric" in the context of Ray Bradbury's sense, that is, the body itself is becoming machinized because of modernization. But I wonder if he's using them here ini the original Walt Whitman sense? the poem "I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman was written before electricity was discovered. It simply meant "I sing of the body in rapid action" the poem speaks of the body under physical strain. If so, this speaks of the beauty of the body in a similar sense.
My favorite part is the second verse. The greek story of Narcissus tells how he fell in love with himself by a lake and stayed there till he died. Afterward his skeleton becomes a flower. "Will I have the skeleton to show that I lived a lie decieving my lover to the day that I die?"
Incredible!
This is truly an amazing song. The guitar work is quite extraordinary. The meaning is more difficult to get behind, at least for me. I kind of like these puzzling songs. The first first definitely is talking about a relationship he had that faded because his heart was "being pulled at by another" and he didn't want to tell his girlfriend and break her heart, but he knews it's the best thing he can do. She "deserves to hear it all from the start." He goes on to talk about the circumstances surrounding his new-found love. "I was on my own, I was living to love you. For the first time I was home in the world of my mother, we spoke to eachother, from the tone in your voice I foresaw. You and I were on our way out!" So just in talking to her he realizes that the relationship is fading. Now, in the song "We Sing in Time" he uses the words "Sing the Body Electric" in the context of Ray Bradbury's sense, that is, the body itself is becoming machinized because of modernization. But I wonder if he's using them here ini the original Walt Whitman sense? the poem "I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman was written before electricity was discovered. It simply meant "I sing of the body in rapid action" the poem speaks of the body under physical strain. If so, this speaks of the beauty of the body in a similar sense. My favorite part is the second verse. The greek story of Narcissus tells how he fell in love with himself by a lake and stayed there till he died. Afterward his skeleton becomes a flower. "Will I have the skeleton to show that I lived a lie decieving my lover to the day that I die?" Incredible!