Beautiful song. Sad but upbeat and emphatic.
Lyrics are simple "Beat" poetry. Lost love is all. No drugs, no Nam, no nothing.
Everything is bleak. What isn't bleak around train stations? Or lost love?
Silver horses are tears.
Tired starlings are the parting lovers.
Yellow tigers is just her unspoken look of her recall and acknowledgement of their parting. Perhaps sympathy combined with an admonishment, "get over it. I have."
Of course the erstwhile Lothario cannot get over it and continues to obsess. Otherwise there'd be no story here, folks.
Lost love. It's a classic theme like Longfellow's "Evangeline".
Sorry Rulle - I hit "flag" when I meant to hit "Post Reply" ! [That happens to me a lot at this site.]
Sorry Rulle - I hit "flag" when I meant to hit "Post Reply" ! [That happens to me a lot at this site.]
Your post is condensed truth - like a poem. I love it. Your words are worthy of the song itself. White Room - one of my all-time favorite songs.
Your post is condensed truth - like a poem. I love it. Your words are worthy of the song itself. White Room - one of my all-time favorite songs.
A crazy experience: once, back in the 90's, I wanted to call a radio station to request this song - but I couldn't get through - line was busy. I spoke to no one, my call never went through.
I had barely hung up the phone when this song came over the airwaves.
@RulleMarie/ ......great analysis.....thank you for your literary insights in breaking down this [ image-laden] lyric-poem, and clarifying its basic LOST-LOVE narrative......without a clear-headed interpretation like yours, the bonehead LSD-drug or psychedelic Vietnam war- recollection interpretations ( sometimes both, together) would dominate this discussion...........thanks again......
@RulleMarie/ ......great analysis.....thank you for your literary insights in breaking down this [ image-laden] lyric-poem, and clarifying its basic LOST-LOVE narrative......without a clear-headed interpretation like yours, the bonehead LSD-drug or psychedelic Vietnam war- recollection interpretations ( sometimes both, together) would dominate this discussion...........thanks again......
Beautiful song. Sad but upbeat and emphatic. Lyrics are simple "Beat" poetry. Lost love is all. No drugs, no Nam, no nothing. Everything is bleak. What isn't bleak around train stations? Or lost love? Silver horses are tears. Tired starlings are the parting lovers. Yellow tigers is just her unspoken look of her recall and acknowledgement of their parting. Perhaps sympathy combined with an admonishment, "get over it. I have." Of course the erstwhile Lothario cannot get over it and continues to obsess. Otherwise there'd be no story here, folks. Lost love. It's a classic theme like Longfellow's "Evangeline".
Sorry Rulle - I hit "flag" when I meant to hit "Post Reply" ! [That happens to me a lot at this site.]
Sorry Rulle - I hit "flag" when I meant to hit "Post Reply" ! [That happens to me a lot at this site.]
Your post is condensed truth - like a poem. I love it. Your words are worthy of the song itself. White Room - one of my all-time favorite songs.
Your post is condensed truth - like a poem. I love it. Your words are worthy of the song itself. White Room - one of my all-time favorite songs.
A crazy experience: once, back in the 90's, I wanted to call a radio station to request this song - but I couldn't get through - line was busy. I spoke to no one, my call never went through. I had barely hung up the phone when this song came over the airwaves.
"Mind-Reading Psychic Radio? or GOD.
@RulleMarie/ ......great analysis.....thank you for your literary insights in breaking down this [ image-laden] lyric-poem, and clarifying its basic LOST-LOVE narrative......without a clear-headed interpretation like yours, the bonehead LSD-drug or psychedelic Vietnam war- recollection interpretations ( sometimes both, together) would dominate this discussion...........thanks again......
@RulleMarie/ ......great analysis.....thank you for your literary insights in breaking down this [ image-laden] lyric-poem, and clarifying its basic LOST-LOVE narrative......without a clear-headed interpretation like yours, the bonehead LSD-drug or psychedelic Vietnam war- recollection interpretations ( sometimes both, together) would dominate this discussion...........thanks again......