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Re: patience
(the lyrics, mercilessly thieved from the website):
"Sister" (words: Detweiler and Bergquist)
You say he feels it
his face reveals it
my sweet trepidation
an eagerness of my own
a shiver ships through my bones
can you see cobblestone roads
running through his stare.
he's so clandestine
he's such a vision
so tell me sister
he sits here in this small dive
there's something behind those eyes
did you perceive the wilderness
resting there... so did i
laughing he stalls me
crazy he calls me
he thinks me artless
for not stocking berry wines
from certain australian vines
have mercy sister
he's travelled 'round the world
he's like a shadow
there by the window
but no man's an island
no man's an artesian well
he loves the cathedral bell
it sings about him
when he goes home at night... so do i
Here's my "dumb guy lyric analysis". Isn't it just about digging some dude
from afar? In university english classes, I realized I usually only see the
obvious... But it seems pretty straitforward. The singer to me is someone
very private and shy. Like that Emily Dickenson chick. :)
So to me (until one of you smart people tell me differently!) it's just
about unrequited love...
Artesian well,
Dumb Guy Bruce
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Melanie Shannon" <arwen725 at hotmail_com>
To: b_lachey at hotmail_com, over-the-rhine at actwin_com
Subject: patience
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:15:59 -0500
then, just out of curiosity, (and because i never understood it), what do
you think 'sister' is about? any deep meanings, or just what's obvious?
melanie
(details of LA concert coming soon- i promise! and we'll see how my photos
turned out...)
>From: "Bruce Lachey" <b_lachey at hotmail_com>
>Reply-To: "Bruce Lachey" <b_lachey at hotmail_com>
>To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: re: rarity desires
>Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:12:46 -0000
>
>My #1 I'd like to hear live again:
>
>How Does it Feel - however they wanna play it is fine by me.
>
>I was on a "Patience" listening cycle this past weekend; it really is one
>of
>my favorite albums of all time, and by far my favorite OtR. The light lush
>keyboards on a few of the tracks (Jacksie, for example) and the wacky
>percussion on a few (I've Been Slipping)... aah. And the lyrics are just
>"art" to me. Maybe that sophomoric phase of OtR best matches my mindset.
>To me, the album as a whole is very diverse, very optimistic, lush,
>far-reaching yet introspective, and somehow cohesively tied together.
>
>Oh, and for the record, I don't think "Fly Dance" is about masturbation at
>all... (For you new-school OtR fans, that was a debate in the past). Nor
>do I think it's about Nelson Mandela, no matter what anyone says to me.
>But
>I DO think "Faithfully Dangerous" is about vampires... :)
>
>Teeth marks to be sure,
>B
>
>
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