tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post5097167949039786730..comments2024-03-26T17:48:13.000-07:00Comments on The Clerk Manifesto: Long may you runFeldenstein Calypsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-83743918624280389602014-04-11T16:27:59.399-07:002014-04-11T16:27:59.399-07:00Thank you for your comprehensive comment. Perhaps ...Thank you for your comprehensive comment. Perhaps you're saying partly it doesn't matter ALL that much what a song is officially about. My attention to and comprehension of lyrics can be wildly OFF and I will become quite attached to my misunderstood lyrics, but even finding the correct lyrics, or having them pointed out to me (fiercely, kindly, or amid laughter), doesn't change my emotional sense for the heart of the song, and the right lyrics still FIT the same way as my wrong ones did to me. I mostly think it's funny the thing about Long May You Run, and a little silly, but, yes, the feeling is still true in the song and then, really, why NOT be about a car. I too love Brokedown Palace (though unlike, um, some people, can't claim to have heard it live like, a hundred times), but I never even HAD a interpretation. Yours seems deeper than the more accepted one that you cite, and more complicated. I suppose that is the argument for artists to leave a lot of doors open in their work. Except, not in Yellow Submarine, which, of course, would flood and plummet to the bottom of the green sea, under the blue sky, and then absolutely nobody would be able to live there.<br /><br />Wait! Unless Ringo is a fish singing about sea creatures! Ringo Starrfish!Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-30360481033198251142014-04-11T15:54:29.098-07:002014-04-11T15:54:29.098-07:00He also has that wonderful song about his old houn...He also has that wonderful song about his old hound dog, "Old King", another testimony song. Anyway, your experience of the song is interesting, I'm sure one we all share...how we associate something with a song only to find out what the song is *really* about, and how (not sure if it was true for you) it might change the way you hear it. I had this happen with many songs, like "Brokedown Palace," by the Grateful Dead. It's one of my favorite songs. I understand when people say it's about death, about someone who's lived a long time and is near. But I've always heard it differently, in a way that the "brokedown palace" is the whole structure of an identity or self that is let go, and in a very loving and beautiful way. I still hear it that way. Also, "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles. I always thought it was about living in a sea of your own and that yellow is the best color to do such a thing in, so one should spend a lot of time wearing yellow and living alone--only to find out later it was about a yellow submarine.G.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08242049267511221959noreply@blogger.com