Seems like the lyrics are a collage of all their influences.
"Geranium kisser / Skin like silk and face like glass" is definitely a reference to Bob Dylan's 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' ("...And your flesh like silk, and your face like glass..." / "...are waiting in line for their geranium kiss..." )
"Don't confront me with my failures" is from Nico's 'These Days'
"Kiss me with your mouth open / For your love, better than wine" is most definitely a reference to Stephen Duffy's 'Kiss Me (With Your Mouth)' ("Kiss me with your mouth. / Your love is better than wine.)
And 'Call on me' could be a reference to Stevie Winwood's 'Valerie'.
There's probably more, but I have a headache from listening to Stephen Duffy and I'm going to sleep.
It may seem like a dubious explanation, but if you listen hard, you can hear a bit of all these
songs on the record. Bob and Nico's folk guitar, Nico's violins, Duffy and Winwood's beats and synths. And this wouldn't be Dave Longstreth's first musical referencing (Rise Above, anyone?)
He is not one to adumbrate his influences.
Oh and "To the chamber that conceived me" could be from Solomon 3:4,
"It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me."
2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan>
2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan>
I assume that the second definition of the word Adumbrate is the one that is meant? So AlfiePark means Dave Longstreth does NOT give clues as to his musical references? I find this hard to believe since the connections and references are pretty clear, or does AlfiePark mean DL DOES adumbrate his influences.
I assume that the second definition of the word Adumbrate is the one that is meant? So AlfiePark means Dave Longstreth does NOT give clues as to his musical references? I find this hard to believe since the connections and references are pretty clear, or does AlfiePark mean DL DOES adumbrate his influences.
BTW, thanks for making me look up the word adumbrate as I had never heard it before!
BTW, thanks for making me look up the word adumbrate as I had never heard it before!
Seems like the lyrics are a collage of all their influences. "Geranium kisser / Skin like silk and face like glass" is definitely a reference to Bob Dylan's 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' ("...And your flesh like silk, and your face like glass..." / "...are waiting in line for their geranium kiss..." )
"Don't confront me with my failures" is from Nico's 'These Days'
"Kiss me with your mouth open / For your love, better than wine" is most definitely a reference to Stephen Duffy's 'Kiss Me (With Your Mouth)' ("Kiss me with your mouth. / Your love is better than wine.)
And 'Call on me' could be a reference to Stevie Winwood's 'Valerie'.
There's probably more, but I have a headache from listening to Stephen Duffy and I'm going to sleep.
It may seem like a dubious explanation, but if you listen hard, you can hear a bit of all these songs on the record. Bob and Nico's folk guitar, Nico's violins, Duffy and Winwood's beats and synths. And this wouldn't be Dave Longstreth's first musical referencing (Rise Above, anyone?) He is not one to adumbrate his influences.
Oh and "To the chamber that conceived me" could be from Solomon 3:4, "It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me."
from: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adumbrate
from: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adumbrate
2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan>
2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan>
I assume that the second definition of the word Adumbrate is the one that is meant? So AlfiePark means Dave Longstreth does NOT give clues as to his musical references? I find this hard to believe since the connections and references are pretty clear, or does AlfiePark mean DL DOES adumbrate his influences.
I assume that the second definition of the word Adumbrate is the one that is meant? So AlfiePark means Dave Longstreth does NOT give clues as to his musical references? I find this hard to believe since the connections and references are pretty clear, or does AlfiePark mean DL DOES adumbrate his influences.
BTW, thanks for making me look up the word adumbrate as I had never heard it before!
BTW, thanks for making me look up the word adumbrate as I had never heard it before!