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| King Crimson – I Talk To The Wind Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think that the song is all about a person who comes from a standpoint of enlightenment. Namely the "late man". They have reached their understanding about the world but realize that it doesn't really matter. Because no matter what they cant pass it on to any other. Every word they say to pass on their understanding gets carried away in the wrong direction or is ignored much like the wind blowing it out of their hands. When the Late man explains his thoughts to the straight man, the straight man is but wind which cannot be impressed or possessed and simply blows away. |
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| King Crimson – Cirkus Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think that its a metaphor for a world gone rotten. Its told from two perspectives, that of the human, who gets sucked in and becomes a part of the circus, and that of some sort of "mother nature"-like character. The song narrates how this circus comes to town and in all of its extravagance and wonder nobody notices the obscenity of it and how its destroying everything natural until it collapses in on itself. Could relate to drugs or america, dunno, thats my take. |
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| Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I completely agree with feather paperweight though I don't think he needed to be so verbose ;). To summarize, the whole song is about finding meaning and reason within our lives. So many times we are led astray by what other people media and our own ego's tell us. And eventually we come to realize that the entire castle we had built upon what we understood in the world is just burning down. And the truths and ideas that we didn't pay any attention to before come crashing down on us from the most unexpected places, i.e. the blind man running with the truth in his hand. The song is about never building a castle based on the way we think the world works. We've never really figured it out. But as long as we keep looking for the real meaning in the world or "someone who's turning", eventually we'll come around.
Thats what I get out of the song, its one of my favorites. If Neil Young meant for it to be a protest song (which I actually kinda doubt) then I'm just a moron blowing gas. |
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| Genesis – Back in N.Y.C. Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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From what I interpret Rael dies at the very beginning of the album. The entire story his his metaphysical journey through the realization of his wasted life. He dies around the start at the end of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" and "Fly on a Windshield". At the end he makes the choice of saving his brother John instead of returning to his life on the streets thereby in actuality breaking his own cycle of purgatory and freeing himself in the act of saving John. |
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