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Post by afoleybag on Jul 6, 2015 17:18:48 GMT -5
"While the Song Remains the Same" makes me think of...how lonely I am at the moment but it also makes me hold out hope that I will soon find that special someone that I can share my life with, so I can bring her to my hometown and take a walk at night around the neighborhood where I grew up in, and share the love that God has reserved for us human beings in this life.
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Jul 6, 2015 17:21:05 GMT -5
"While the Song Remains the Same" makes me think of...how lonely I am at the moment but it also makes me hold out hope that I will soon find that special someone that I can share my life with, so I can bring her to my hometown and take a walk at night around the neighborhood where I grew up in, and share the love that God has reserved for us human beings in this life. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 17:22:52 GMT -5
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 6, 2015 17:45:06 GMT -5
"While the Song Remains the Same" makes me think of...how lonely I am at the moment but it also makes me hold out hope that I will soon find that special someone that I can share my life with, so I can bring her to my hometown and take a walk at night around the neighborhood where I grew up in, and share the love that God has reserved for us human beings in this life. |
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Post by afoleybag on Jul 6, 2015 17:53:02 GMT -5
"While the Song Remains the Same" also makes me think of...the secularization of nostalgia. Thematically, there is a thread between this song and its bastard cousin "Talk Tonight" and the holiday classic "Frosty the Snowman". Lyrically, let's start with the older published songs here: In "Frosty the Snowman," the third person recalls:
"He led them down the streets of town/ Right to the traffic cop/ And he only paused a moment when he heard him holler "Stop!"/ For Frosty the snowman had to hurry on his way/ But he waved goodbye saying/ Don't you cry/ I'll be back again some day;" (of course in a highly frothy sugar-infested sing-along foreground of an early Saturday morning's children's program)
and from "Talk Tonight":
"All your dreams are made of strawberry lemonade/ And you make sure I eat today/ You take me walking/ To where you played when you were young/ I'll never say that I won't ever make you cry/ And this I'll say I don't know why/ I know I'm leavin'/ But I'll be back another day".
Both reflects a motif, the disappointment of secular society: the injustice of the world contrasted by the idealism of reflection, of nostalgia.
Inevitably, the resignation in "While the Song Remains the Same":
"Hold that thought/ Don't let me go/ We can dance beneath the fireflies on an empty road/ It's a shame how a memory fades to grey/ We let love get lost in anger chasing yesterday".
How ostensible innocence has turned into quiet disillusion, I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 18:02:56 GMT -5
PARKLIFE
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Post by glider on Jul 6, 2015 18:40:26 GMT -5
I laughed harder at this than his actual post  |
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Post by afoleybag on Jul 6, 2015 18:48:59 GMT -5
I laughed harder at this than his actual post Fuck you! |
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Post by glider on Jul 6, 2015 18:49:36 GMT -5
I laughed harder at this than his actual post Fuck you!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 19:47:53 GMT -5
Am I the only one who doesn't understand any of this?
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Post by matt on Jul 6, 2015 21:32:24 GMT -5
MUM, I'M SCARED!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 14:58:39 GMT -5
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Post by scott1 on Jul 7, 2015 15:13:17 GMT -5
Double track everything, crepe your soul, smoke your mind LG x
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 7, 2015 17:00:52 GMT -5
Double track everything, crepe your soul, smoke your mind LG x I'd've loved it if phrases like "crepe your soul, smoke your mind" had made it into Liam's songs. You know, instead of "here's a song, sing along" and "do you hear me when I say that I gotta walk this way/There's a fire in the sky, I don't need no alibi" etc... |
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Post by carryusall on Jul 7, 2015 17:12:10 GMT -5
I like the frosty the snowman thing. Finally someone on here talking some sense
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