Re: [sdre-l]: lyrics interpreted, randomly
Using star's, wave's, angel's, any thing as imagry in song lyric's is cool if you can pull it off with some sort of sincerity. I think Jeremy is able to do that. I think he is a great lyricist and a poet. I find his song lyrics very very poetic. Writing song lyric's isnt the easiest thing to do either. But I can be kinda biased and supportive of the thing's he write's about because I enjoy reading and writing poetry myself, and I also relate to Jeremy's lyrics more than I do an artist who only writes about feeling sorry for themselves and writing about how bleak and depressing the world is in their eyes. This has been my 2 cents. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone who knows something about christian or eastern religion give any > > comments on the possible inferences or references he's making? > > I'm kind of skeptical that anything that profound can be read in to it. For > the most part, the lyrics to The Ocean are just recycled old ones, mixed and > matched from various songs. There are some all-new lines, like the one about > being a shining star (am I the one that finds that line incredibly cheesy?). > > Anyway, that's kind of how I felt about the whole song. It just didn't seem > like anything new or different to me. Nothing about it surprised me. It'd be > nice if this song was just a b-side, but I guess it isn't. Just my opinion, > and sorry to all the apologists out there. > > Mike
Re: [sdre-l]: lyrics interpreted, randomly
well, it's bound to be easier than the older songs. I
saw something a while ago about jeremy singing in
phonics in the studio in the "olden" days ('the days
were olden'...hehehehe)and seeing which words fit
later. I don't know how true that is, but it does
seem as if the syntax has gotten clearer in recent
years (don't take that as an attack of DiaryDiary
is the Holy Grail IMHO).
dan
--- Amy Lett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a possible topic for discussion, what the heck
> could the lyrics mean?
> (hehe Ernesto's gonna love me for bringing this up
> ;) ) One of the things
> that I'm curious about is what Enigk means when he
> says 'running through
> fields.' Makes me think of the American frontier,
> mass movement, viewing
> from on high, or a return to nature, maybe. The
> lyrics from the snippet of
> the upcoming album seem more vague than HIFTBSO's,
> but obviously the same
> topics, like the cycles of life and death, something
> or other with millions,
> delicately speaking of and for the masses (and I've
> liked how he's done
> that, here and in HIF)... I assume they're about
> god, an ever-present
> presence; and there's a wave, an answer, made JUST
> FOR YOU. Sure.
> And in the first verse-section-thing, it seems like
> he thinks he's been
> reprimanded for not doing something right.
> Interesting insight into him
> personally.
>
> Can anyone who knows something about christian or
> eastern religion give any
> comments on the possible inferences or references
> he's making? Someone
> mentioned something earlier, but I've of course
> forgotten what he said. :)
>
>
>
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Re: [sdre-l]: lyrics interpreted, randomly
> Can anyone who knows something about christian or eastern religion give any > comments on the possible inferences or references he's making? I'm kind of skeptical that anything that profound can be read in to it. For the most part, the lyrics to The Ocean are just recycled old ones, mixed and matched from various songs. There are some all-new lines, like the one about being a shining star (am I the one that finds that line incredibly cheesy?). Anyway, that's kind of how I felt about the whole song. It just didn't seem like anything new or different to me. Nothing about it surprised me. It'd be nice if this song was just a b-side, but I guess it isn't. Just my opinion, and sorry to all the apologists out there. Mike
