Great lyrics, they read like poetry. Some thoughts:
The title, "Old Mythologies", comes from the W.B. Yeats poem "A Coat" (see below) about how a man can only control his own, and shouldn't worry about pleasing others.
"Just a lonely impulse of delight" comes from the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman foresees his Death”, in which a WWI fighter pilot, who only signed up for the service out of boredom, predicts his own death at the hands of the enemy.
Great song, love the vocabulary and poeticism of the lyrics. How often do you hear the word "erudite" in a song? I can't tell you what the song means, but at least I can place some of the references.
W.B. Yeats' "A Coat":
I made my song a coat
covered in embroideries
out of old mythologies
from heel to throat;
but the fools caught it,
wore it in the world’s eyes
as though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
for there’s more enterprise
in walking naked.
Great lyrics, they read like poetry. Some thoughts:
The title, "Old Mythologies", comes from the W.B. Yeats poem "A Coat" (see below) about how a man can only control his own, and shouldn't worry about pleasing others.
"Just a lonely impulse of delight" comes from the Yeats poem “An Irish Airman foresees his Death”, in which a WWI fighter pilot, who only signed up for the service out of boredom, predicts his own death at the hands of the enemy.
Great song, love the vocabulary and poeticism of the lyrics. How often do you hear the word "erudite" in a song? I can't tell you what the song means, but at least I can place some of the references.
W.B. Yeats' "A Coat": I made my song a coat covered in embroideries out of old mythologies from heel to throat; but the fools caught it, wore it in the world’s eyes as though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, for there’s more enterprise in walking naked.