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Old 17th November 2009, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by dawnss View Post
I really think that the most obvious songs have been mentioned, but some songs are stretching it, to an extent. Just because in dearest she says that she hopes to see her lovers face until the day she dies, does not mean the entire song is about death, granted someone can see an interpertation like that, but I do not think that it is right to associate songs like dearest, far away, or even end roll with death. Now those songs do definately have some sad lines in them, however they are not primarily about death, maybe the loss of a something that the narrator desires, but they are not about death. However, depending on how you interpret songs you could refer to death as in love that has passed, so therefore it is dead, but I think that is a stretch somewhat, because it is not as if she is saying that her old way of living or her old life is dead, but someone can probably convience me otherwise. I could even say that walking proud then is a song about death in the sense that her old past has died and she is looking forward to a brighter day, I still do not understand why this song was on A Best Two Black because I have always thought the end was positive (she mentions that she is walking forward). So in other words, there is a difference between a song that mentions death and a song thats main topic concerns death (a major theme versus a minor theme). Some songs like heaven, memorial address, who (even though it does not have that feeling for me I can still see where people are coming from), ever free (should be song during funerals, JK), momentum (if you go off the mv and the lyrics, I guess, that song is borderline for me, however; if anyone wants to challenge me and convience me otherwise I am totally up for a resonable logical interpertation and analysis), and obviously untitled for her. So I hope I am not rambling but I think this all depends on the interpertation, we all, myself included, just have to make sure that our evidence is logical. I will say this much though, for some songs the meanings are very ambigious, I think Ayu is a fantastic lyricist, however some songs are very confusing whether it is because the words are lost in translation, literally, or it because she is just very confused, or I just do not understand some things. I do not think I will ever understand Kanariya, are the canaries an allegory for something else. So I guess we can all give each other a little bit of wiggle room if we make some mistakes in interpertation. Like I said sorry if I rambled on and excuse me if I offened anyone!
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j/k xD good points^^
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