| Neil Young – Thrasher Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is one of my all-time favorite songs. Although it may not be that special in terms of poetic verse, it is packed with brilliant and powerful imagery and allegorical symbolism. It’s a story about a romantic non-conformist who realizes that people have become slaves in a prison of affluence. Apathetic and complacent, they’ve allowed their values, heritage, culture and consciousness to slip into oblivion in spite of the fact that they have attained “everything” they had everything they thought they needed to be happy. They had given their lives to the pursuit of wealth thinking possessions would make them happy. But in the end the very thing they pursued had overtaken them. Reckless science and technology driven by greed had not only destroyed their land but it had also bankrupted their souls. His understanding leads him to leave his life (or lifestyle) behind, drawn back through time and sentimental memories to the point where peace and contentment and was lost to fear and anxiety (sleeplessness) born out of “progress”. His saddens with futility and loneliness as one awakening from a lucid dream amongst the sleeping. Even though his friends plainly see it coming (The Thrasher), he leaves them, yet struggles to know why he lost them. It is then when he realizes that truth is a “one-way ticket” in relationships. In the desert, in solitude, he embarks to rediscover innocents in the majesty of beauty and natural wonders. Solacegives gives way to joy as he envisions the day when he can return and be free to give all that he has and has learned… presumably to those who by then may have returned to ideals and virtue. FYI - The Thrasher (the reaper - death) is the modern day columbine. |
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| Neil Young – Thrasher Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is one of my all-time favorite songs. Although it may not be that special in terms of poetic verse, it is packed with brilliant and powerful imagery and allegorical symbolism. It’s a story about a romantic non-conformist who realizes that people have become slaves in a prison of affluence. Apathetic and complacent, they’ve allowed their values, heritage, culture and consciousness to slip into oblivion in spite of the fact that they have attained “everything” they had everything they thought they needed to be happy. They had given their lives to the pursuit of wealth thinking possessions would make them happy. But in the end the very thing they pursued had overtaken them. Reckless science and technology driven by greed had not only destroyed their land but it had also bankrupted their souls. His understanding leads him to leave his life (or lifestyle) behind, drawn back through time and sentimental memories to the point where peace and contentment and was lost to fear and anxiety (sleeplessness) born out of “progress”. His saddens with futility and loneliness as one awakening from a lucid dream amongst the sleeping. Even though his friends plainly see it coming (The Thrasher), he leaves them, yet struggles to know why he lost them. It is then when he realizes that truth is a “one-way ticket” in relationships. In the desert, in solitude, he embarks to rediscover innocents in the majesty of beauty and natural wonders. Solacegives gives way to joy as he envisions the day when he can return and be free to give all that he has and has learned… presumably to those who by then may have returned to ideals and virtue. FYI - The Thrasher (the reaper - death) is the modern day columbine. |
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