cutuphalfdead wrote:I, for one, love the muted distance of the songs on Binaural. The loudness, while still feeling pushed away. There's something intense going on that you're not quite able to touch. But that fits in with the entire theme of the record. Even the artwork is trying to portray a sense of immense power separated by an incredibly vast distance. This is an album of muted rage, and that shows in not just how they wrote the songs, but how the recordings were constructed.
I relate to terrible songs and am constantly leaving bad situations for new (bad) situations, and I still think that line is terrible. It captures/says nothing about the sentiment he's trying to express in the rest of the song; It's like he just wanted to stick in a stupid rhyme about gas. And I say that as someone who thinks that "I will be what I could be once I get out of this town" from the next verse is one of Ed's best post-RA lines.
"No one thinks to witness, but they will someday," in that context is the type of line that sounds like it's saying something really profound and provocative, but it really doesn't add up to anything more than just kind of moody self-importance. It's like the 'run away from your problems' equivalent of "THEN you'll be sorry!"
McParadigm wrote:"No one thinks to witness, but they will someday," in that context is the type of line that sounds like it's saying something really profound and provocative, but it really doesn't add up to anything more than just kind of moody self-importance. It's like the 'run away from your problems' equivalent of "THEN you'll be sorry!"
No, it's like leaving your home town after a bad childhood, but having enough guts to think that one day things will be better. Once you get out of this town, you will turn it around. They might not notice now, but they will. That's a great attitude to have.
McParadigm wrote:"No one thinks to witness, but they will someday," in that context is the type of line that sounds like it's saying something really profound and provocative, but it really doesn't add up to anything more than just kind of moody self-importance. It's like the 'run away from your problems' equivalent of "THEN you'll be sorry!"
No, it's like leaving your home town after a bad childhood, but having enough guts to think that one day things will be better. Once you get out of this town, you will turn it around. They might not notice now, but they will. That's a great attitude to have.
It's kind of impressive that Ed wrote a less mature song about leaving a bad situation in his forties than he did in his twenties when he wrote Rearviewmirror.
McParadigm wrote:"No one thinks to witness, but they will someday," in that context is the type of line that sounds like it's saying something really profound and provocative, but it really doesn't add up to anything more than just kind of moody self-importance. It's like the 'run away from your problems' equivalent of "THEN you'll be sorry!"
No, it's like leaving your home town after a bad childhood, but having enough guts to think that one day things will be better. Once you get out of this town, you will turn it around. They might not notice now, but they will. That's a great attitude to have.
Yeah, AND THEN THEY'LL BE SORRY!
That's still a bit too much ambiguous. I wish that line had the unequivocalness of Unemployable's "locker where he kept his things".
cutuphalfdead wrote:so glad i don't see signatures
