Fugitive: Love Song for 9/11 Terrorists
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I think this line amongst others implies it is those boys killed for being homosexual
"We'll all be together in heaven
but this part
Now is the time of our lives
But it won't last long
could imply it is about children as schooldays are meant to be the time of our lives
I think Neil needs to comment on this song to clarify issues!
"We'll all be together in heaven
but this part
Now is the time of our lives
But it won't last long
could imply it is about children as schooldays are meant to be the time of our lives
I think Neil needs to comment on this song to clarify issues!
Yesterday's news. (It is possible to write a song from the point of view of other people.)Angelspirit wrote:PsB shouldn't get involved in stuff like this.Its bad enough that we have to live with terrorism.I'm a bit angry because the song sounds awsome but the lyrics are crap
No you're not really angry, and if you were why should your fashioned feelings mean anything to us.
Try reading the post from the begining instead of displaying your stupidity. Or Troll somewhere else.
No he doesn't. He doesn't have to clarify anything to anyone.E-Mail Vampire wrote:
I think Neil needs to comment on this song to clarify issues!
I don't think the song is exclusively about the Iranians...but we've been on for this issue for far too long really when we should spend 7 pages saying how fabulous and beautiful this song is, which it is.
The lyrics are still moving as far as I'm concerned. But I've made my feelings known on the fairly obvious interpretation a few pages back.
are there any other topics that you feel an artist shouldn't comment about?Angelspirit wrote:PsB shouldn't get involved in stuff like this.Its bad enough that we have to live with terrorism.I'm a bit angry because the song sounds awsome but the lyrics are crap
and how exactly do 'we' live with terrorism? a few bombs go off in london. some others don't. as a result we face curtailment of some civil liberties that most people can't even raise an iota of anger to fight about. big deal. nothing much changes. 'we' don't have to live with terrorism in the same way that someone in baghdad or basra or the occupied territories has to, where death is a very real possibility every day.
" ...but what i do like, i love passionately.."
It should be noted that the word "fugitive" has a second meaning that differs markedly from "being on the run from the law". Fugitive also means "ephemeral", or the brief passing of time. Think tempus fugit in Latin. Time passes.
Given the opening line of the song, "Now is the time of our lives, but it won't last long..." it's clear that Neil has once again performed the most subtle of lyrical twists in naming the track. I've always felt this ephemeral quality was the overriding theme of the record, regardless of suicide bombers, but it's interesting to dig a little deeper and find such sophisticated wordplay going on under the surface. Bravo, Mr Tennant.
Drico.
Given the opening line of the song, "Now is the time of our lives, but it won't last long..." it's clear that Neil has once again performed the most subtle of lyrical twists in naming the track. I've always felt this ephemeral quality was the overriding theme of the record, regardless of suicide bombers, but it's interesting to dig a little deeper and find such sophisticated wordplay going on under the surface. Bravo, Mr Tennant.
Drico.
The pale kid that hides in the attic behind his PC...
Exactly. It's just that so many people nowadays have lost the skill of interpreting a work of art (yes, even a pop song can be one) so that they are unable to find meaning in it themselves; they need an authority figure (the artist him/herself) to point out the obvious.Syncratic wrote:No he doesn't. He doesn't have to clarify anything to anyone.E-Mail Vampire wrote:
I think Neil needs to comment on this song to clarify issues!
It all reminds me of Martin Amis's novel The Information, where the main character, an author, gets asked in a radio interview what his novel is trying to say.
Richard thought for a moment. The contemporary idea seemed to be that the first thing you, as a communicator, was come up with some kind of slogan, and either you put in on a coffee mug or a T-shirt or a bumper sticker - or else you wrote a novel about it...
"It's not trying to say anything. It's saying it."
"But whatis it saying?"
"It's saying itself. For a hundred and fifty thousand words. I couldn't put it any other way."
Click click drone
I'd love for them to do an ambigous video for this, to accompany the single release, of course!
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