(You're A) Strange Animal

Oh my goodness, I can't believe I'm the first to comment on this song! I can't be sure of the exact meaning, but I've always interpreted it to be about someone who's infatuated with someone else, and maybe they don't understand why. Perhaps they aren't their usual type, who knows? In any case, a great song!

I love this song, I'm listening to it right now, actually. I've heard it on the radio awhile back and was waiting for it to come back on. Today, someone had the radio on and I was about to leave the room when it came on. So I went to the station web site (says the name of the current song) and downloaded it. It's a good song, not sure what it means yet. If I get any ideas of the meaning, I'll post here.

This's actually my favorite song, identify well with it.

The VIDEO to the song by Gowan is kind of... yeah... it interprets it as "man" as in humankind, being strange in a way.

I never cared much for it myself in that interpretation and try to pretend the video doesn't exist.

For my personal preferred way of thinking of it is this:

The concept is to run across someone unique and special, they may be a love interest or may not, it's not really required in the context of the song. Someone who just stands out as being out of the norm, and in a good way.

Clarisse McClellan from Fahrenheit 451, for example, would be a perfect example. That one individual to whom the term "I'm not insane, the world is!" actually applies truthfully.

Yes, people are scared of that which is different of them. Be cautious around anything new, or potentially exciting, as it could also be dangerous. Every once in awhile though, someone who's on the edge, who COULD have been that one, comes out to the foreground and recognizes genius when they see it. When everyone else shys away in fear, there's always one who just has to understand the chaos, make sense of it all, to break the enigma of this radical element who enters their life.

If yeu go with the mentality on say... the book 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand, also seen in the song '2112' by Rush, though that's actually a tribute to anthem, but the point's still there... then yeu get the concept of some larger 'them' or 'they', whoever the nameless faces in charge are, be they corporate drones, scientists or whotever, they seek to understand this mysterious person who exists outside the monotonous grey boundries set before them. The childlike enthusiasm can't be quantified, nor understood, and leaves them without the ability to truly understand.

Regardless, the one person who was looking at them with actual interest, still doesn't get them either, but is still captivated regardless.

The theme's carried out in multiple books and movies, and other forms of media; check for two characters; 1 shunned for their non-conformist attitude, and 1 who revels in their bizzare approach to life... the first one I can think of off the top of my head is V is for Vengeance which's perfectly fitting.

It's a common theme, and a good one at that. The question now, becomes 'are yeu the non-conformist, the observer, the fearful masses, or the corporate drone?'.

In case it wasn't clear enough, the song's sung from the perspective of the observer, in reference to the non-conformist, while noting the reactions of the other two upon them.

Looking at the video, I think the only safe interpretation is that it's about the human condition and an acknowledgement that humans are members of the animal kingdom. What's less safe is that the bone is a homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Steven Crowder w0000t

As a fellow Canuck (Lawrence Gowan is too) I've listened to this song & A CRIMINAL MIND and put them together & wrote Gowan of the tremendous possibilities in a finished product. Here's what you get and the time...IS SPECTACULAR! Animal (You're A Strange) A disillusioned person, who has been caught up in this cult, following this messenger from The Devil, to take over the souls of Earthlings. The person is badly troubled in not being able to justify to his own conscience, WHY he (and 70,000,000 others) are following him, (TRUMP) So he stands in front of TRUMP and professes his doubt & confusion to him and requests his explanation to help him.

CRIMINAL MIND Here we have TRUMP attempting to in fact, EXPLAIN who he is, what he's been all his immortal life. He himself, perhaps coming to terms with his LIFE OF WRONG DOING, is making his first admission to a human being, of being NO GOOD! Gowan, PROFETICALLY including the two words (OMINOUS SPIRITUS) which mean, "DESCENDER INTO HELL......really puts a lid on just how closely intertwined the two songs are. I must be clear here. The two songs were written in the 80's, a couple of years apart, and Donald Trump, aka USA'S T.I.T. (Twice Impeached TRAITOR), wasn't near to be even on the POLITICAL radar yet. I hope you'll see something possible in this, even though Gowan, at the time of writing the 2 songs, had no connection. To help defeat The Ominious Spiritus & his CULT, contact Lawrence Gowan and encourage him to complete this. piece of work.

I love how he uses the strange animal metaphor to describe his personality and his relationship to the world. He is not afraid to be himself and follow his instinct, even if it makes him stand out from the crowd.