I carry the dust of a journey
that cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
for I breathed it every day
You cannot shake away what has been incarnated in yourself through what you lived along your life, what has been breathed every day.
You and I are yesterday's answers
the earth of the past come to flesh
Eroded by time's rivers
to the shapes we now possess
If in the past we had uncertanties about our futures, they were questions without answers at that moment, that were answered with what happened to us along the time of our life. Again it says that what we lived in our past is now incarnated in our flesh: the river of time moved that material and converted it in what we are now. Our body has the mark of what happened to our spirit.
Come share of my breath and my substance
and mingle our streams and our times
In bright infinite moments
our reasons are lost in our eyes
If we come together, we will mix the rivers of spirits of each one and that meeting will be bright and forever will stay in our future, as all our past is in our present flesh, There is no reasoning to move, there is a river of spirit that carries also our reasoning. The only way to know if these rivers of spirit will joing is to watch in the eyes of the other: eyes to eyes, naked, forever. There is no oblivion, no memory.
@Click57 Only issue is that "eyes" was a mistake in the lyrics. The true closing line is, "our reasons are lost in our rhymes". A little word play. Obvious if you listen careful, even more so if you watch a video of Lake singing it. ;-)
@Click57 Only issue is that "eyes" was a mistake in the lyrics. The true closing line is, "our reasons are lost in our rhymes". A little word play. Obvious if you listen careful, even more so if you watch a video of Lake singing it. ;-)
@codehead: You are right. I found the lyrics with "eyes" in internet and it led me to a wrong interpretation. With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning. Thanks.
@codehead: You are right. I found the lyrics with "eyes" in internet and it led me to a wrong interpretation. With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning. Thanks.
@Click57 "With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning."—I love this song, hauntingly beautiful, but I suspect it was simply the wordplay of "rhyme or reason", and the rhyme with "time". Remember, Greg Lake bought us the immortal verse, "Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder." ;-) Good job on the interpretation.
@Click57 "With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning."—I love this song, hauntingly beautiful, but I suspect it was simply the wordplay of "rhyme or reason", and the rhyme with "time". Remember, Greg Lake bought us the immortal verse, "Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder." ;-) Good job on the interpretation.
Reasons that are lost in rhymes: Page could have been playing with rhymes with no reasons here. But one can elaborate on it and say that beyond the reasons there is a match in the form, and that is what matters. A concrete form and not a abstract reason.
Reasons that are lost in rhymes: Page could have been playing with rhymes with no reasons here. But one can elaborate on it and say that beyond the reasons there is a match in the form, and that is what matters. A concrete form and not a abstract reason.
I carry the dust of a journey that cannot be shaken away It lives deep within me for I breathed it every day
You cannot shake away what has been incarnated in yourself through what you lived along your life, what has been breathed every day.
You and I are yesterday's answers the earth of the past come to flesh Eroded by time's rivers to the shapes we now possess
If in the past we had uncertanties about our futures, they were questions without answers at that moment, that were answered with what happened to us along the time of our life. Again it says that what we lived in our past is now incarnated in our flesh: the river of time moved that material and converted it in what we are now. Our body has the mark of what happened to our spirit.
Come share of my breath and my substance and mingle our streams and our times In bright infinite moments our reasons are lost in our eyes
If we come together, we will mix the rivers of spirits of each one and that meeting will be bright and forever will stay in our future, as all our past is in our present flesh, There is no reasoning to move, there is a river of spirit that carries also our reasoning. The only way to know if these rivers of spirit will joing is to watch in the eyes of the other: eyes to eyes, naked, forever. There is no oblivion, no memory.
@Click57 Only issue is that "eyes" was a mistake in the lyrics. The true closing line is, "our reasons are lost in our rhymes". A little word play. Obvious if you listen careful, even more so if you watch a video of Lake singing it. ;-)
@Click57 Only issue is that "eyes" was a mistake in the lyrics. The true closing line is, "our reasons are lost in our rhymes". A little word play. Obvious if you listen careful, even more so if you watch a video of Lake singing it. ;-)
@codehead: You are right. I found the lyrics with "eyes" in internet and it led me to a wrong interpretation. With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning. Thanks.
@codehead: You are right. I found the lyrics with "eyes" in internet and it led me to a wrong interpretation. With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning. Thanks.
@Click57 "With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning."—I love this song, hauntingly beautiful, but I suspect it was simply the wordplay of "rhyme or reason", and the rhyme with "time". Remember, Greg Lake bought us the immortal verse, "Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder." ;-) Good job on the interpretation.
@Click57 "With rhymes it is more difficult to find a meaning."—I love this song, hauntingly beautiful, but I suspect it was simply the wordplay of "rhyme or reason", and the rhyme with "time". Remember, Greg Lake bought us the immortal verse, "Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder." ;-) Good job on the interpretation.
Reasons that are lost in rhymes: Page could have been playing with rhymes with no reasons here. But one can elaborate on it and say that beyond the reasons there is a match in the form, and that is what matters. A concrete form and not a abstract reason.
Reasons that are lost in rhymes: Page could have been playing with rhymes with no reasons here. But one can elaborate on it and say that beyond the reasons there is a match in the form, and that is what matters. A concrete form and not a abstract reason.