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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
This song sounds very much like an expression of current sadness that life (and involvement with someone you love) is ephemeral, DiSTANToblivion.
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Yes this is very true, not doing too well for the past couple of weeks but lately I've felt a lot better. I couldn't think of anything else to do other than write.
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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
I noticed the contrast between descriptions of the event that has to end yet also won't end...do you mean that in the memory the event will linger? And that no matter how much we love a moment...we can try to stay, we won't leave intentionally...we will still lose that moment, that person?
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You're so spot on about it Erica... That is exactly what I was trying to say.
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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
One issue I've thought about, while reading your lyrics, is that often you seem to write about your feelings in general terms, rather then describing the details of the events that trigger your feelings. Sometimes I miss the events, the people, who cause the feelings you experience.
When I hear more concrete bits of a *story* I can imagine the story, and this triggers the feelings in me, whereas reading about how the feelings feel directly causes sympathy and understanding but doesn't necessarily trigger the experience of the same feelings.
So, for example, in "Summer of 69" the image of the girl on her mama's porch sticks in my mind, inspiring my imagination, and I feel the longing, the yearning, the nostalgia. If Bryan Adams simply said, "I feel longing, yearning, nostalgia for her" I would understand, but I wouldn't feel those feelings. When I hear the details of what he did with this girl, *then* I start to sink into his moment, feel it as if I were there.
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I understand. I wish I could write in less general terms, but I honestly feel that if I get more descriptive that someone will read it and know it is about them. Not that I want to keep anything secret or just to myself. I just get a little scared of writing too personal in a descriptive way...
I really want to get better writing in that way though. It tends to become a mess for me when I do. Maybe writing general feelings allow people to decipher their own meanings or put forward their own moments in the lyrics? That could be the only positive side of generalisation like that. Maybe I shouldn't be afraid of opening up and explaining more?
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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
"An unused heart is starting to break"--this line struck me the most with its sadness. I once wrote a line, "My love has gone to seed," that a friend interpreted as very sad, because he felt it meant someone who had a great capacity to love but never found someone on which to lavish it. Your line gives me that same feeling.
Your partial song sounds like it is describing someone ripping himself, or being pulled, slowly away from something he feels he can't have in life.
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Wow... I can't believe how right you are with that interpretation. It's very, very true. I really like your line "My love has gone to seed" and I agree with what your friend said about it. They hold very similar meanings, I feel that as well.
As always Erica, thank you for your helpful words. I'll try opening up more, maybe to include some events that I've grown up experiencing? Like I said, I find it hard to write that way. But if I don't at least try then I'll never know what I could write next.
- Russ