LadyEllen
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Joined: 6/30/2006 From: Stourport-England Status: offline
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Please excuse my rudeness (not a habit I promise) but obviously those lyrics are not from "I Am The Walrus"! Still, I have no idea where they are from - sound like something concocted in Cornwall/Devon using English with a really heavy southwest accent! Mind you, they could be in Cornish and mean something totally different! Lyrics dont have to make sense - but the thing is they usually do and the more cryptic they are, often the more meaning they have to them. Proper songwriters are poetic artists - its not always apparent what meaning they are conveying from the words themselves, and equally not apparent when they use strange imagery in their songs - but somehow their musical poems do convey something to us, and thats the work of the artist surely, to convey his/her heightened degree of connection to the world of the soul, to us all? This is also, incidentally, what annoys me so much about modern music - there is rarely any deeper meaning to its lyrics than an appeal to the LCD to sell as much of this rubbish as possible. How does a song about beating up a woman and drive by shootings assist us in developing? How does a five minute ditty that I could have written at the age of ten, accompanied by a dancing chorus of boobs, legs, bums and pretty faces, add to the sum of human conciousness? Maybe its just my age and I should accept we live in a post-modern world where cynicism and exploitation has taken over from aspiration, or maybe pocket money should be banned! Its just that any song writer who has the ability and will to fulfil his/her destiny as a musical poet in our society, seems to be banned from the airwaves in favour of what passes as music today. If John Lennon had been born in 1980, I get the impression we would never have heard of him.... and thats a shame because what he and his fellow artists have added and could continue to add to our world is so valuable for all of us - the ability to look at things in a different way to gain better understanding. ...........after all, its not easy, banging your head against some mad bugger's Wall. (Pink Floyd) E
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