This song meaning should be obvious to anyone with any experience with lucid dreaming or hypnagogic thoughts.
There are two different parts/dreams that he has in this song
1st part
he dreams of his lover that she was with her
"dreamed it was a dream you were gone"
then he realizes that it was a dream and not real
he feels "ripped by reality"
then he goes on to draw comparisons between love and the king of the beasts.
says that it must kill to eat if it gets hungry(should be self explanatory)
2nd dream-
he goes back to sleep.
he has a second dream shortly after.
the second dream is "the perfect" song. there are several parts to this statement
1)when you lucid dream or even are just entering the rudimentary dream stages, oftentimes you will hear wonderful beautiful music that is so moving and meaningful however, when you awake it is hard to consolidate what you just subconsciously created. As a musician, this happens to me all the time. On a side note there are several notable musicians who use dream music as their inspiration for creating music.
2)he wakes half way and scribbled down the song lyrics which he had created in his dream. Words that enter and leave your mind when you are dreaming/in hypnagogia sound meaningful and sensical at the time, these often are snippets of speech that you hear over your day and sometimes in other peoples voice or even your own. this happens more or less to everyone who has experienced lucid dreaming or remained concious in the hypnagogic state
however when you think about the thoughts you had(if you remember them) they are absolute jibberish many times. Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they are so complicated that if you trace them back far enough there is a meaning, but this is hard to do.(ive written several poems in my sleep before)
my cousin described the dream speak for him as words like "denim chicken" things nonsensical and abstract. It varies from person to person.
ANYWAYS, bill callahan is inspired to write a song, but when he scribbles down the lyrics later and re reads what he had written he discovers that it is all nonsense.
From this several other interpretations can be drawn.
hes making a statement about art and music as a whole
the song, like the actual song, the one i'm reviewing is the song he created in his dreams. (like created a song in his dream about creating a song in his dream) this is the one im leaning towards, because I've had epiphanies like this in dreams before. (Example: i had a dream that I was the only person in the whole world and everyone else was a figment of my imagination(solipsism) and then I awoke and realized i was dreaming and it was actually true in the context of my dream that everything around me WAS a figment of my imagination)
stuff like that happens when you WILD/MILD/Lucid dream occasionally.
that in my opinion was my initial understanding of the song. I would like to think that is what he meant, because if it was, he is a genius.
This song meaning should be obvious to anyone with any experience with lucid dreaming or hypnagogic thoughts.
There are two different parts/dreams that he has in this song
1st part he dreams of his lover that she was with her "dreamed it was a dream you were gone"
then he realizes that it was a dream and not real he feels "ripped by reality" then he goes on to draw comparisons between love and the king of the beasts.
says that it must kill to eat if it gets hungry(should be self explanatory)
2nd dream- he goes back to sleep. he has a second dream shortly after.
the second dream is "the perfect" song. there are several parts to this statement
1)when you lucid dream or even are just entering the rudimentary dream stages, oftentimes you will hear wonderful beautiful music that is so moving and meaningful however, when you awake it is hard to consolidate what you just subconsciously created. As a musician, this happens to me all the time. On a side note there are several notable musicians who use dream music as their inspiration for creating music. 2)he wakes half way and scribbled down the song lyrics which he had created in his dream. Words that enter and leave your mind when you are dreaming/in hypnagogia sound meaningful and sensical at the time, these often are snippets of speech that you hear over your day and sometimes in other peoples voice or even your own. this happens more or less to everyone who has experienced lucid dreaming or remained concious in the hypnagogic state
however when you think about the thoughts you had(if you remember them) they are absolute jibberish many times. Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they are so complicated that if you trace them back far enough there is a meaning, but this is hard to do.(ive written several poems in my sleep before)
my cousin described the dream speak for him as words like "denim chicken" things nonsensical and abstract. It varies from person to person.
ANYWAYS, bill callahan is inspired to write a song, but when he scribbles down the lyrics later and re reads what he had written he discovers that it is all nonsense.
From this several other interpretations can be drawn. hes making a statement about art and music as a whole
the song, like the actual song, the one i'm reviewing is the song he created in his dreams. (like created a song in his dream about creating a song in his dream) this is the one im leaning towards, because I've had epiphanies like this in dreams before. (Example: i had a dream that I was the only person in the whole world and everyone else was a figment of my imagination(solipsism) and then I awoke and realized i was dreaming and it was actually true in the context of my dream that everything around me WAS a figment of my imagination)
stuff like that happens when you WILD/MILD/Lucid dream occasionally.
that in my opinion was my initial understanding of the song. I would like to think that is what he meant, because if it was, he is a genius.