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Re: Land this suckah, and leave it on the runway to rot
- To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Land this suckah, and leave it on the runway to rot
- From: Mark Utley <mau222 at isoc_net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:06:17 -0400
- References: <200207202343.g6KNhB41023273 at mailhub_actwin.com>
Ysobelle wrote:
I'm still waiting for someone to give me their personal take on "Every
day a page of paper/Every night a photograph/A moveable feast."
Okay, here's my take on it:
I think they're referring to the richness of life and all the remarkable things that occur in and around us every single day if we have the eyes to see.
"Every day a page of paper" - Every day something new to write about, some new memory or experience to put down on paper
"Every night a photograph" - Much the same, every night an image to remember.
"A Moveable Feast" - This term actually refers in a literal sense to the Feast Days on the Roman Catholic Calendar. Some feasts are fixed, meaning they happen on the same day every year (Christmas, for example) whereas other feasts, such as Easter, are "moveable"-- they occur every year but on different days. That being said, with OTR being an extremely non-literal band lyrically, I think it has more to do with the previous lines and may refer to life being a "feast" for the senses, "an embarrassment of riches" if you will, no matter where one finds oneself, hence "moveable".
Not having written the song, I can only say that that's what I get from it. K & L might say it's about reading the newspaper while eating take-out on the tour bus.
Peace,
Mark
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