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Re: words to I Let It Go -- help me out
has anyone asked Linford? Doesn't he read this list? Linford? Don't you
read this list? You are unsung on this topic. :) respectfully, soup.
>
>>> Ben offers:
>>>
>>> Lonely is just how I feel
>>> Alone in the world and the world is a wheel (?)
>>> Spinning these thoughts in my head
>>> I tangle with you and we hang by a thread
>
>> Jessyka counters:
>> i thought the line was
>> "alone in the world, and the world isn't real..."
>> but that's just me.
>
> The thing about that is that "the world isn't real" doesn't fit as well
> with Karin's metaphor in the verse (I think the liner notes said Karin
> wrote the song, not Linford, but I don't have them with me so I could be
> wrong). The world spins her thoughts like an old timey wool spinning
> wheel-it spins her together with her companion and they hang tenuously by
> a thread.
>
>> Patty suggests:
>> I thought it was broken crutch, and for "Your skin was the fee for your
>> [??????] on down", I thought was "phages unbound" Phage is a combined
> meaning
>> of "a thing that devours" and then I swear she said unbound after. I
> could be
>> VERY wrong however. I do think its wheel however.
>
> I *love* this. That's so clever. What's more, it honest to God sounds
> like a fricative rather than a stop in the song, thus /f/ not /p/. The
> problem with this is that "pages" makes more sense because the previous
> line said "I wanted to write it all down." So in this verse we're writing
> and in the 3rd one we're spinning/weaving-and the metaphors are
> consistent.
>
> The crush/crutch problem, I have no idea about.
>
> Ben
>
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