LilyWhite
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Post by LilyWhite on Sept 10, 2005 19:57:37 GMT
I remember her saying that---that Love And Anger was the song she knew the least about. I bet she would say that about Big Stripey Lie as well. I kind of had that feeling with Walk Straight Down The Middle as well. I like that she shoots out ideas that she is not even sure about!
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Post by matanchik on Sept 10, 2005 20:55:54 GMT
i heard an intereptation that it's about suicide. i actually kind of agree with that
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genesismalachi23
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Post by genesismalachi23 on Sept 10, 2005 22:37:23 GMT
i heard an intereptation that it's about suicide. i actually kind of agree with that Which song are you refering to Matanchik?
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LilyWhite
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Post by LilyWhite on Sept 10, 2005 22:43:59 GMT
i heard an intereptation that it's about suicide. i actually kind of agree with that Which song are you refering to Matanchik? You're kidding,right? I (have felt suicidal tendencies) can see this interpretation.
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Post by Paul on Sept 11, 2005 1:29:56 GMT
i heard an intereptation that it's about suicide. i actually kind of agree with that Which song are you refering to Matanchik? I'm taking a wild stab in the dark here, but could it be Rocket's Tail?
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Post by saloldgal on Sept 12, 2005 3:04:42 GMT
She even makes reference to that on the Sensual World interview video before Love and Anger, about not knowing what it was about. Wow, I wasn't aware of that. It reminds me of the biblical gift known as "speaking in tongues", where (according ot the most common belief, anyway) the speaker is delivering a message without knowing herself exactly what the message is, requiring the translation of another suitably gifted person. I was reading up on that concept recently, and learned that some scholars believe that "speaking in tongues" does not actually refer to speech that is incomprehensible to all but the specially gifted, but refers instead to speech that is simultanously comprehensible to all people, regardless of the language they speak. By the second interpretation, I think Kate's gift is similar. Even when she doesn't know what her songs mean, they are often very meaningful to individual listeners, on many different levels and in many different ways. Certainly the message I get from some of her songs differs dramatically from the meaning that she has provided "on the record".
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Post by matanchik on Sept 12, 2005 6:09:38 GMT
O.K., i'll try to interept the song as a song about suicide
That November night, looking up into the sky, You said,
Hey, wish that was me up there-- It's the biggest rocket I could find, And it's holding the night in its arms If only for a moment. I can't see the look in its eyes, But I'm sure it must be laughing.
there is a couple walking together and they witness a suicide which is the rocket falling down to the ground, one person says to the other he'll like to suicide too "hey, wish that was me up there"
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen, And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.
I saw only a stick on fire, Alone on its journey Home to the quickening ground, With no one there to catch it.
the other person who heard the will to suicide of his couple sees the suicide as a sad thing and tells him he is crazy to do such a thing
I put on my pointed hat And my black and silver suit, And I check my gunpowder pack And I strap the stick on my back.
now we go back to the other people point of view, the one who wanted to suicide, in this lines he is preparing for his suicide
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge-- Nobody seems to see me. Then, with the fuse in my hand, And now shooting into the night And still as a rocket, I land in the river.
now, these lines show clearly that the man\woman suicided. the man\woman is jumping to the river, you can't interept these lines other than a suicide attempt, unless the person is really crazy and thinks is a real rocket. while the other lines in the song don't seemto really fit with the suicide intereptation, this lines made me believe it's about it
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Post by Adey on Sept 13, 2005 2:29:49 GMT
Even after your explanation, I just can't see it as a song about suicide.
But if you think so, then that's fine. Your interpretation is as valid as anyone else's.
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mizzshy
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Post by mizzshy on Apr 21, 2006 21:19:52 GMT
Nah, I don't think it's about suicide and I don't think "suicided" is a word. Sorry to be so picky. I personally don't like this song as much as the other songs on this album... I just find it strange. Unless it's a person in a firework display that has gone wrong so they end up in the river.
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Post by soundbite on Jul 9, 2006 7:48:54 GMT
Billiant song! I think this should have been a Single, why wasn't it ever a Single? Would loved to have seen a video to this.
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mizzshy
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Post by mizzshy on Jul 9, 2006 10:34:21 GMT
A video would certainly have been interesting...
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Sven Golly
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Post by Sven Golly on Jul 9, 2006 16:30:43 GMT
Billiant song! I think this should have been a Single, why wasn't it ever a Single? For the same reason 'How to be Invisible' or 'Joani' or 'Pi' from "Sea of Honey" aren't singles. That is - Kate is stubborn. Go to "Yahoo" (keyword 'Kate Bush' then use the 'Video' search engine) a bit of the song with some video appears 22 seconds in to the "1989 Interview" with Kate Bush. The website of origin is 'White-Man-Killer' the link to there is @ "The Other Topics" board on the first post in the thread "Linkin' Park"
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mizzshy
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Post by mizzshy on Jul 11, 2006 20:46:28 GMT
Ooh... that sounds good...
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Post by michael on Jul 14, 2006 3:33:43 GMT
Personally, I think there are some things that aren't meant for us to understand. She has her tales--Cloudbursting and Expeiment IV; she has her personalities--Sensual World, Wuthering Heights; she has her perspective and then she has things that happen to her which she puts into song. And we weren't there. She mentions names, sometimes, of people who were there (on a rooftop in NY or her anwering machine). And they weren't us, although I wish just once they were. Anyway, I think there's someone in this world who knows exactly what she's talking about in Rocket's Tail. It sounds personal. Not necessarily a lover or even a male, but someone close. And one night, at Waterloo Bridge (many songwritwers have been inspired there, including Ray Davies) they connected on some level.
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Post by Adey on Jul 14, 2006 12:17:44 GMT
Personally, I think there are some things that aren't meant for us to understand. She has her tales--Cloudbursting and Expeiment IV; she has her personalities--Sensual World, Wuthering Heights; she has her perspective and then she has things that happen to her which she puts into song. And we weren't there. She mentions names, sometimes, of people who were there (on a rooftop in NY or her anwering machine). And they weren't us, although I wish just once they were. Anyway, I think there's someone in this world who knows exactly what she's talking about in Rocket's Tail. It sounds personal. Not necessarily a lover or even a male, but someone close. And one night, at Waterloo Bridge (many songwritwers have been inspired there, including Ray Davies) they connected on some level. Well, I guess only Kate can say for sure. We do know that Kate had/has a cat called Rocket, cats have tails as do firework rockets.. I think she was just having some fun with some lyrical puns..
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