View Single Post
  #6  
Old 03-04-2018, 20:14
raven's Avatar
raven raven is offline
Winterlover
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 6,462
Quote:
Originally Posted by Porco View Post

“Nice!”

That makes total sense, brilliant.

Loving the overlapping references that appear to be going on in this album.
True. They've said the themes are memory and loss, confused and missing history, fractured present....and that all reveals itself slowly as you read through the lyrics and go back over them and take in the references....which is what I love doing so thank you for the early present Not far from the theme underlying Dylan Thomas' Birthday Poems - birthdays bringing happy memories from childhood, thoughts of life now and recognition of time passing, of death though not necessarily as bleak as clumsily summing it up like that makes it sound... 'Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true'. Light is a place even though Heaven remains uncertain we keep searching for the myth/light/hope....sorry rambling off. I now want to go find me a collection of Dylan Thomas's poems so another job done for the Manics there
__________________
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more," - Byron

'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
Reply With Quote