don't think it's a metaphor, looks like a story about the arrival of night. I remember someone wrote that "setting controls..." is about some god's son crashed into the Sun, but then what are the lyrics in whole about!?... Anyway, I think I know why do you like it - notice what you feel when listening to itmoonwall wrote: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
Waters best metaphor?
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So STCFTHOTS should be an allusion to the legend of Icaros. I'm not so sure about that
I found an intereting site "Allusions to Classical Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd" at http://www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/index.html.
I found an intereting site "Allusions to Classical Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd" at http://www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/index.html.
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And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor
Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
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I strongly recommend these, too. And some other Orwell's novels are interesting, though they're in another style and a bit other thignsjambo wrote:Just read Animal Farm (and 1984 cause it just rules).moom wrote: 1. yes, it is
2. last two are kinds of people. Listen to/read the lyrics, and you'll get the picture
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No metaphors there, just similes.PFralst wrote:And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor
Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
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I will call it a borderline case, cause it?s 'picture' of life.saucerfulofmeddle wrote:No metaphors there, just similes.PFralst wrote:And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor
Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
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