Waters best metaphor?

thrill-seeker · Post by **thrill-seeker** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:46 pm

This thread says "Metaphors" so obey by its real meaning !

Some of the above aren't metaphors ! A metaphor isn't just a lyric or how you interperate it....it has a meaning

Paranoid Ace · Post by **Paranoid Ace** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:26 pm

Amazingly no one posted this one:

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I?d something more to say...

The Great Pig In The Sky · Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:36 pm

I did first part of it

thrill-seeker · Post by **thrill-seeker** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:48 pm

Paranoid Ace wrote:Amazingly no one posted this one:

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I?d something more to say...

Metaphor ????

The Great Pig In The Sky · Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:52 pm

maybe someone should just change the name of the topic

thrill-seeker · Post by **thrill-seeker** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:55 pm

The Great Pig In The Sky wrote:maybe someone should just change the name of the topic

No need....if everyone posts a metaphor then that's them "on topic"

I make a big fuss over the most silly things.

The Great Pig In The Sky · Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:05 pm

well, eyes like black holes in the sky is a metaphor....or maybe not?

The Gunner's Dream · Post by **The Gunner's Dream** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:05 pm

The Wall in itself is a metaphor, so that would certainly be my favorite.

Mooner · Post by **Mooner** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:30 pm

The Great Pig In The Sky wrote:well, eyes like black holes in the sky is a metaphor....or maybe not?

simile . . . sorry

"We roll and roll
We roll and roll
Help me roll away the stone"

"So have a good drown, as you go down alone
Dragged down by the stone."

Rog has always been burdened by the weight of life and his purpose in the world. But that struggle is one of the main forces that moulded him into a great artist.

Ringorocks · Post by **Ringorocks** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:35 pm

The Great Pig In The Sky wrote:well, eyes like black holes in the sky is a metaphor....or maybe not?

No. This is a comparison due to the word "like".
Had it been a metaphor, it would be "His eyes are/were black holes in the sky", but that wouldn't really make sense. I even had to alter the lyric so I could make it make sense.

I really have no life.

simpledumbpilot · Post by **simpledumbpilot** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:45 am

I'll have to second ''Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl'', inspired!

Chicks dig, dig D.I.G. dig, dig metaphors!

Damn!t · Post by **Damn!t** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:26 am

the dark side of the moon
animals
the wall

i mean the whole albums...couse they can be viewed as one piece and for that a one big metaphor.

ObscuredEchoes · Post by **ObscuredEchoes** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:32 am

Tenniru wrote: "Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes",.

ALWAYS been MY favourite line and metaphor... close second and third being the afore-mentioned lines from Echoes and WYWH....

Post by **henno** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:53 am

'They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth'

moonwall · Post by **moonwall** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:38 am

Don't know why, but love this:

Little by little the night turns around.
Counting the leaves which tremble and turn.
Lotus's lean on each other in union.
Over the hills where a swallow is resting.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine.
Morning to birth is born into shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Who is the man who arrives at the wall?
Making the shape of his questions at asking.
Thinking the sun will fall in the evening.
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Metaphor or not? A linguistic question, but I like it anyway