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Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.
I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.
I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.
You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time
I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.
I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.
I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.
You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time
I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.
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Late man= Hasatan, Lucifer, Beelzebub
Straight man= God, Yaweh, Elohim
"said the straight man to the LATE man".
"I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between."
- the ghost which travels between this world and the afterlife.
he misses his late friend (the wind - his spirit) and tries to talk to him but he realizes that he cant hear him because he is dead and his words simply blows in the wind to nowhere.
"I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me."
-the straight man imagine to himself what does his late friend sees when he look at the world from the next life/heaven, or maybe this is how the straight man sees the world after his lost, he feels confused, that he is not part of the world and nothing feels real.
"You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time."
-the straight man is upset because he feels alone and confused and there's no one that can guide
him and show him the way. he wish to stop wasting his time on talking to someone who cannot answer him nor hear and to be able of letting him go.
The straight man is some person who is not on drugs, while the late man is the drug user. Been here, there and between is what he experienced while tripping. The chorus is about hallucinating while on drugs, telling that he seeing his own vocal sound. Next is that I feel that he is on the outside (reality) looking inside (his mind) and he sees confusion and disillusion. Don't possessed and impressed him means that he thinks that he cannot be controlled by this drug and it just upset his mind, and used up his time. And as the chorus repeat again about how he talk to the wind to me means that in the end he take that drug again.
So what do you say about theory, that the lyrics are about a man and the nature? The late man is the man, who cares about mother earth and so on, but he's late, it's too late to change people's mind and save the earth.
Of course, this theory have large gaps - is this guy talking to wind, or is wind a metaphore of people who don't listen to him? If it's wind, why would it talk to him like that?
Hope you (or I) find some bright solution.
Sorry for my english
Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.
Job 1:7
And the Lord said unto Satan
"Whence comest thou?"
Then Satan answered the Lord and said
"From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it..."
It should be obvious. King Crimson. "You don't impress me, don't possess me."
YOU are the wind. The chaff.
Oh, look, I must be right!