Imagine a child who is experiencing too much pain. She creates an imaginary friend, or somehow finds a comfort in the mourning.
For someone who has known a great deal of sadness, that sadness begins to assure us that something is real, it becomes what we know how to survive through, and if we know how to survive, we believe that we must continue this experience, so we can keep on surviving.
So, "Mister Blue" becomes our hope, our company as we continue to survive. There is something familiar and comforting in our pain.
This is only my opinion, but often in this era and style of music, there was a lot of "stream-of-consciousness," or at least emotionally focused poetry to be a sort of primal release, in a contrast to the ultra-perfected, technological electronic accompaniment.
Because of the less structured, emotional focus of the lyrics, I don't dare claim that my interpretation of the lyrics are "The Truth." I only insinuate, from the overall feel of the music, what Vince was really expressing with these words.
Imagine a child who is experiencing too much pain. She creates an imaginary friend, or somehow finds a comfort in the mourning.
For someone who has known a great deal of sadness, that sadness begins to assure us that something is real, it becomes what we know how to survive through, and if we know how to survive, we believe that we must continue this experience, so we can keep on surviving.
So, "Mister Blue" becomes our hope, our company as we continue to survive. There is something familiar and comforting in our pain.
This is only my opinion, but often in this era and style of music, there was a lot of "stream-of-consciousness," or at least emotionally focused poetry to be a sort of primal release, in a contrast to the ultra-perfected, technological electronic accompaniment.
Because of the less structured, emotional focus of the lyrics, I don't dare claim that my interpretation of the lyrics are "The Truth." I only insinuate, from the overall feel of the music, what Vince was really expressing with these words.
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As mercurial as lyrics meaning to one person and another may be, I think you hit the mark!
As mercurial as lyrics meaning to one person and another may be, I think you hit the mark!