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Apr-02-2011, 20:17 GMT
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 | from I´ve got a wall around me, that you can´t even see" Paul has come to "and we´ll build a wall, that nothing can break through." He seems to me to be talking about the protective group of a family or a couple, as opposed to his earlier isolation to protect against the world (way back, it´s I Am A Rock). To me, it clearly has to do with where he is in his life. I don´t know that these themes are really "deep" but I think that Paul has a great gift for language and music that allows him to present these themes in moving and often also entertaining ways.
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Ute
Apr-07-2011, 00:34 GMT
Germany
 | Truth or lie, the silence is revealing
An empty sky, a hidden mound of stone
But the CAT scan´s eye sees what the heart´s concealing
Now-a-days, when everything is known
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Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed
And we´ll build a wall that nothing can break through
And dream our dreams of dazzling blue
Sweet July, and we drove the Montauk Highway
And walked along the cliffs above the sea
And we wondered why, and imagined it was someday
And that is how the future came to be
You may put in 2 different meanings or groups which are adressed here. Besides a couple or a family, he might talk about society in its whole too.
So the first verse can be read as a derivate of Sound of Silence.
Blue-red-white: stars and stripes. Marriage bed: USA
Walls: Borders (physical and mental)
dream our dreams of dazzling blue: illusion, (isolation)
in a former verse he said: "You and I were born beneath a sky of dazzling blue" but now we just dream of it anymore, it´s engrossed. We have had the best start but reality hadn´t become what we once thought it would be. |