![]() This song to me, is about him questioning life, love, and how differences can often alter life's path. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend. as to question does she love him so much that she would put him on replay? Like an old record she loves too much to throw away. The emotions Morrison conjures forth on attachment and loss offered a portal for the searching souls of 1968. would she still do it all the same? Would she come find him? Would she even want to? Would she kiss his eyes and love him for the man he is? Or would life be different? Would she lay him down in silence, in a soothing calm, to be reborn to come back into her life over and over for internity. ![]() and how if he got into the very depths of her thoughts, where all the peculiarities of life that could alter her genuine train of thought were gone. My interpretation of the Astral Weeks is pretty simple to grasp though. The chord structure of the song is quite repetitive (and I believe that enforces his lyrics even more), but the complexivity of the words is what makes the song so beautifully poetic and eternal. His full and formal title is Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE, but hes better known as Van, and lets face it. Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |