| The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[ILikeToWatch:8454] Very nicely summarized! You did your research and put together a well thought-out interpretation. I couldn't agree more—and this remains one of my favorite songs, regardless of whether I'm listening to it as a commentary on gambling or as a "relationship" song. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[JamesMarks:8453] Bless your heart, you're the only one who got this right. This IS a song about a relationship: a compulsive gambler's relationship with casinos, to be specific. The author did have a gambling problem and was deeply disillusioned when he eventually learned that the odds were rigged against him. And it works as a song about some kind of more general interpersonal relationship, which makes it especially lovely. Also easy to misunderstand, judging from all the strange comments about God, warped relationships, satellites, and Orwell. It's beautiful, but not exactly mysterious. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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To the best of my knowledge, this song has nothing to do with God complexes or 1984. The late Eric Woolfson was apparently a compulsive gambler who viewed a casino as a cathedral to those pursuing games of chance. (http://bravewords.com/news/the-alan-parsons-project-the-turn-of-a-friendly-card-35th-anniversary-edition-out-in-november). He was disillusioned to learn that gamblers were being monitored by what casinos refer to as the Eye in the Sky: ceiling-mounted cameras used by the casino to monitor (among other things) gamblers' behaviors. If you view the lyrics in this context, a theme emerges: a disillusioned gambler expressing a sense of betrayal when he comes to understand that the object of his love (gaming) is a flawed, possibly dishonest system. I believe the chorus describes the camera/casino's surveillance: it's watching you; it knows what you're next move is likely to be; it is monitored by people who make rules and decisions about gambling and most likely hold them in some contempt ("dealing with fools"). In other words, the casino is watching you, knowing what you're going to do, and keeping the odds in favor of the house ("I can cheat you blind"). There's a poignancy in the verses, as the gambler comes to understand the deceit he has experienced after years of believing he was dealing with a fair system. All that said, it's one of my favorite songs and holds up as the description of any twisted relationship. It's just not a relationship with a deceitful woman, and the narrator doesn't see himself as a deity. |
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| Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Sounds to me like a human who is able to share the senses of a deer through mystical means. I'm still wrestling with the line "Morning, keep the streets empty for me. Traditionally it implies a threat (a la gunslingers coming into a town in the Old West). It certainly doesn't reflect helplessness. I see the line "keep the streets empty" as a return to the human state, perhaps referencing the fear we have of people who have bridged the gap between human and animal consciousness. To me the song speaks of the isolation—and power—we feel when we accept our animal natures. I love the juxtaposition of starkly human and deeply animal perspectives that the song expresses. | |
| Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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