What I can't help laughing at is you guys trying to make out lyrics that are not even in English..
... why do people keep wasting space with comments that LF didn't know what she was singing about and was 'on drugs anyway', ??
firstly - do you say that about Van-Gogh, Edgar Alle Poe or Picasso? Do you say it about Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday? or Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones?
secondly - even if LF was unaware of what parts of her psyche she was revealing in her poetic dot-joining exercise, there is still plenty of meaning to be found.
thirdly - fair enough: to pin down lyric meanings to a single interpretation is a fatuous exercise, of course, however to deny speculation is just as fetchless - more so in fact as it discourages our further exploration of possible meaninglets, and as far as I can tell, LF's intention was for each of us to decide anew what the song means to us at the time we listen to it and so be pulled into an experience with the Now.
almost all analysis suffers from one-dimensional thinking, as once we have struggled to find An answer it is easier to cling to it than to put it in an undecided space and go looking for more possibilities. This leads to heinous, yet easily avoidable erreurs, and we then get labelled as a 'person who thinks like X'. which produces further errors. we try to communicate, but instead we are misinterpreted and everyone ends up with their own ideas about what we meant to convey...
I have written too much, but might share about what the song means to me somewhere another time!
What I can't help laughing at is you guys trying to make out lyrics that are not even in English..
... why do people keep wasting space with comments that LF didn't know what she was singing about and was 'on drugs anyway', ??
firstly - do you say that about Van-Gogh, Edgar Alle Poe or Picasso? Do you say it about Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday? or Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones?
secondly - even if LF was unaware of what parts of her psyche she was revealing in her poetic dot-joining exercise, there is still plenty of meaning to be found.
thirdly - fair enough: to pin down lyric meanings to a single interpretation is a fatuous exercise, of course, however to deny speculation is just as fetchless - more so in fact as it discourages our further exploration of possible meaninglets, and as far as I can tell, LF's intention was for each of us to decide anew what the song means to us at the time we listen to it and so be pulled into an experience with the Now.
almost all analysis suffers from one-dimensional thinking, as once we have struggled to find An answer it is easier to cling to it than to put it in an undecided space and go looking for more possibilities. This leads to heinous, yet easily avoidable erreurs, and we then get labelled as a 'person who thinks like X'. which produces further errors. we try to communicate, but instead we are misinterpreted and everyone ends up with their own ideas about what we meant to convey...
I have written too much, but might share about what the song means to me somewhere another time!