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Old 03-16-2012, 09:59 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Forward To Death View Post
It's very ambiguous, and it takes thought to make sense of the lyrics, like most avant garde.
Glad to hear this. Most of the people whom I have met simply dismiss the lyrics as not making any sense... When in reality, you just need to put forth a bit of time and effort into interpreting/understanding them.

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I mean the entire album sounds like an earnest attempt at being artfully random, so nonsense isn't too much of a stretch when describing it.
Well, yea. Van Vliet said that the concept behind the album was to make music that was unpredictable and that caused the listener to have to focus on more than one thing at a time. For me, with each listen of the album, I learn something completely new because there is just so much going on within the music. Now, I wouldn't use the word "nonsense," but I understand what you mean.
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