This song blew my mind until I was listened to Weekend Edition on National Public Radio and heard John interviewed after The Sunset Tree's release.
When asked about this song he said:
"the point of the song is we are very well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poet, that we think of love as a thing that is with strings and is this force for good and then if something bad happens thats not love...I don't know so much about that I don't know that the Greeks weren't right, I think that they were, that love can beat a path through everytihng, that it will destroy alot of things on the way to its objective which is just its expression of itself. You know my stepfather mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us and well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing aot of what I percieve is terrible damage, yet we talk about love as this benign comfortable force: it is wild."
Well, the first time I heard the song was on an episode of [adult swim]'s "Moral Orel", and the plot of it was a sad one, so when I listened to the song again to hear it in it's entirety, I already had an idea that it wasn't neccesarily celebrating love, just talking about it, especially since there's the repeating line "Some things you do for money, some things you do for love".
Well, the first time I heard the song was on an episode of [adult swim]'s "Moral Orel", and the plot of it was a sad one, so when I listened to the song again to hear it in it's entirety, I already had an idea that it wasn't neccesarily celebrating love, just talking about it, especially since there's the repeating line "Some things you do for money, some things you do for love".
This song blew my mind until I was listened to Weekend Edition on National Public Radio and heard John interviewed after The Sunset Tree's release.
When asked about this song he said:
"the point of the song is we are very well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poet, that we think of love as a thing that is with strings and is this force for good and then if something bad happens thats not love...I don't know so much about that I don't know that the Greeks weren't right, I think that they were, that love can beat a path through everytihng, that it will destroy alot of things on the way to its objective which is just its expression of itself. You know my stepfather mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us and well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing aot of what I percieve is terrible damage, yet we talk about love as this benign comfortable force: it is wild."
Well, the first time I heard the song was on an episode of [adult swim]'s "Moral Orel", and the plot of it was a sad one, so when I listened to the song again to hear it in it's entirety, I already had an idea that it wasn't neccesarily celebrating love, just talking about it, especially since there's the repeating line "Some things you do for money, some things you do for love".
Well, the first time I heard the song was on an episode of [adult swim]'s "Moral Orel", and the plot of it was a sad one, so when I listened to the song again to hear it in it's entirety, I already had an idea that it wasn't neccesarily celebrating love, just talking about it, especially since there's the repeating line "Some things you do for money, some things you do for love".
And, love is an odd force.
And, love is an odd force.