Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.
But...think of all of the hair puns it re-ignited!
Plowing through the Wreckage?
Thumbing My Way through the Wreckage?
Sorting through the Wreckage?
N'ah...
Diving though the wreckage
Not too shabby!
Acceptable
Just think of the video treatment for that one...Ed in deep sea diver gear, rescuing the rest of the band from a sunken submarine...directed by James Cameron
Very early 90s Guns n' Roses
Also ties is back to the thematically similar Force of Nature and Tremor
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Combing through the wreckage usually evokes the visual of looking through the aftermath of a tornado, or war zone, looking for your photo album, your keepsakes, or other tangibles important to your life. I think it can relate if the song is about a troubled relationship, and you’re combing through to recover anything that still has importance or usefulness in the aftermath.
Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.
The visual gag of all visual gags...love it
We still make records to be listened to — not that everyone will listen to a record track one to twelve in a row or side A or Side B — but we still make 'em in case somebody does want to listen to it like that, that's how we make em…
I don't know nothing in Ed s quote brings up Wreckage. I think wires may have gotten crossed. Maybe Dark Matter the song was what that was directed at. That whole story seems like it was put together by ai
Yeah, Ed is just doing what Ed does in interviews: talk about whatever he feels like talking about, which is never himself. Usually, it’s other bands or politics. He doesn’t say anything about Wreckage in that whole paragraph. Probably didn’t even care what the question was.
The only song about Trump on this record is Something Special.
I don't know nothing in Ed s quote brings up Wreckage. I think wires may have gotten crossed. Maybe Dark Matter the song was what that was directed at. That whole story seems like it was put together by ai
Yeah, Ed is just doing what Ed does in interviews: talk about whatever he feels like talking about, which is never himself. Usually, it’s other bands or politics. He doesn’t say anything about Wreckage in that whole paragraph. Probably didn’t even care what the question was.
The only song about Trump on this record is Something Special.
I laughed.
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My ten year old swifty has been subjected to dark matter the last few days on car rides. Short trips, one to two songs. Wreckage came on for just a few seconds as I was skipping to get somewhere else (Scared of Fear maybe). She heard like 3 seconds of music but she perked up. 'What was that?' Do those notes sound like anything in the Swift catalog
"Not sure a lyric gets you there, but, the discussion about the lyric might."
We still make records to be listened to — not that everyone will listen to a record track one to twelve in a row or side A or Side B — but we still make 'em in case somebody does want to listen to it like that, that's how we make em…
Eddie is way better at writing lyrics than he is explaining what they mean — usually his explanations come across as reductive and one-track-minded, which really torpedo the multi-layered meanings that many of his songs have.
Some of “Wreckage” makes absolutely no sense though the lens of it being about Donald Trump (“if you’re feeling the leaving I can’t make you stay”). I have a hard time thinking that even enlightened 60-year old Eddie would treat a Republican politician with the softness and compassion with which he treats the subject of this song.
