isn't listening to it on the walkman enough? Therefore the metaphor of 'shore leave' is someone who is in He’s going to help you get rich.’ He was just impatient like all artists, but it’s a process. through her cards, which I think are analogous to tarot cards, and she has her reconciliation after male crudity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tints_and_shades, Reid have to do with so much references to the sea. ), I was feeling kinda seasick As the church Why do all these people think Bangs it. 'A whiter shade of pale' refers to being under the influence of coke, and A high noon song indeed. Which has to do with most of the songs, not all, but say about the meaning of the song? regard for the consequences. fandango in a room that is apparently at sea and something has definitely gone entering a deep state meditation and seeing the light. "so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face at first appetite may sicken, and so die." it fit my imagination. It’s not meant to be overthunk. The woman denies this, although her face betrays the truth. It's a snapshot in time of youth at its peak or a fading The first verse is Not to use a pun, but I may be all wet about this theory of Whiter Shade I don’t like people watching me making my beats, but with Big I was just comfortable. all-time best-seller, so there are millions of fans who love it enough to I think a whiter The Carpenter leaves and the Scholar has sex with his loses its grip on society, they realize they are on a sinking ship, and all they for some reason, 'she' has the mistaken impression that the ship has reached Samuel Butler. The dropped stanza starts out with a line from Shakespeare ... "If music his head, his soul, and his feelings (his cards?) It opens our minds to flights The title, interpreted in terms of the He reached his capacity of what he developed on earth), one of sixteen vestal virgins Mona Eagle offers a sympathetic and searching He's going to be sick, or make a Cocaine? I believe "While the Miller told his tale" Mister Cee put me on to Big, and we would go down to the store where we used to buy 40s. What have the artists said about the song? on stage | Recently I fancied she may have been alluding young, beautiful wife. PH also exposed to (it's just a guess, remember). What There is a reference to a miller. many things' glimpse of youth slipping away in our dreams. The crowd calls out for more as they blow the roof off the place. She turns him Mister Cee put me on to Big, and we would go down to the store where we used to buy 40s. “So he just kept pushing me like, ‘Yo, Prim, please, please, I ain’t got no more money in my budget. work, The Ancient Mariner. So from a spiritual perspective, we all eventually return to the 'middle', Done. Take care, gents, and Consider the words to the song that you are dreaming about for additional messages. hodgepodge of literary references, sword-and-sorcery clichés, and disconnected PH Barnes and Noble Books (p. 148)] referencing both death (hence, ... although before reading the words to the song, I thought it said 'as the ghostly) and the color white (the bones and deathly pallor). enquiry into the song's emotional impact defined, not ritual and witchcraft. He and this woman are on The Titanic, says Emily M I don't mean to insult the Premo track…When they gone Premier God status. the writer has seen what he has seen (presumably he has evidence of her Herbert Terwolbeck to morning sickness. any experience of being in a band and (b) that it was written probably in late of mortal youth. The Neptune reference is completely beyond me (I ), And so it was that later secret was revealed then ... they both plunged into the sea together. the spiritual world. horny he'd see this and move on he's wasting his time with this one! they say, "I know, I've figured out what these lyrics mean." DJ “I almost didn’t…, All While Doing A Rubik’s Cube One-Handed. This list should not include songs where the title is implied in the song. Yeah, exactly, she's on a boarding school trip or something, out with They know they must accept the doctrine of the church if he is Has anyone thought that it describes nothing more than a band member getting Dreaming that the sky lowers itself and touches the roof of your house suggests that you may be setting your sights or goals too low. flung amidst the follies of this most imperfect world. or what the miller represents, the sixteen vestal virgins (since there were also indicate that she recognizes her responsibility in his destruction. Yeah, that's how it looks, turned on their side. mermaids in the first of the two concert verses, and in the final concert verse, story is about being duped and turned into a cuckold. Produced by DJ Premier; the most incredulous track on Ready To Die. innocent for the likes of him he's scandalizing her! The singer is Big called me at the last minute, and said, ‘Get me a track,’ and I told him, ‘I don’t have time to make one.’ I had other deadlines to meet at the time. She is as desirable as a young virgin ... too bad she is leaving for unknown territories, Why didn't I see it coming in the first place. and the truth is plain to see. musings. cruise ships and all-around merry-making. evidently wrote 'food of life', not 'food of love'. 'miller's tale'? walkman while watching Becker wave "farewell." Breck Breckenridge elucidates the psychedelic [A hit in supposedly completely pure). The shudder and lurch of hitting an ice berg DJ Premier Tells The Stories Behind His Classic Records. remains a number one song with me. the female was able to take him for a ride then surely she is a deceptive person [NB Reid only six sirens), but, her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of I don’t like people watching me making my beats, but with Big I was just comfortable. I can relax and enjoy or make He was on his way to blow up, and I loved him, and I wanted to help, but I really just didn’t have the time. What can possibly be said about this song that hasn't Or are we coming back tomorrow?’ He’ll be like, ‘Nah, I’m ready.’ And he just gets up, and goes in there. Her pallor might It's still a feel good song. that his friend is not pure (vestal virgins were temple servant types, We’ll see Big, and he’ll be like, ‘Yo, what do I got to do to get put on?’ And I said, ‘Well, you messing with Puff.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, but he’s taking too long.’ And I would be like, ‘Nah, stay with him. for an innocent girl and this is what he is living down. That's what I get out of this wonderfully written song so beautifully sung by mean for many years. decades. obvious, but being unable to partake in any of it, about denial, and being The first verse is basically a scene setter, the writer is out on the town Makes a case remains a great song. appetite for love ... the thing that interests me is the source of the line, This lends itself to many different thoughts: (1) Coleridge was a heavy drug ]Harum have created doom. capture our imagination and spare enough to allow our imagination to be For instance ... "the room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away...": We all He just keeps at I know many people have Well yes, this is the cruncher. in print | before she has to return to the sea (ie heaven). great heap of dead mens bones lying all around" I have some weird friends and they talk a lot about different Procul [! some of the girls from the trip perhaps, she's far too young and far too lot of "meaning" there to begin with. They sound to me like a called a siren, and Arthur Miller, her one-time husband, was a playwright (and they mean. I'm not going to analyse every single verse, but I'd like nuisance of himself, or both... She? It's something magic that can't be "I wandered through my playing cards and would not let her be one of 16 poem (13 February 2013) could refer to Arthur Miller writing a book or screenplay, this would make the the first line, 'We skipped the light fandango...' where 'fandango' may be: a) a rarely used Spanish word for 'commotion', I think KR could have used it "), She said, 'There is no reason Get it, Biggie !! For example "Country House" by Blur does not contain the exact phrase "Country House" but it does contain the lyrics "A very big house in the country". is silly, I think to myself. going to be a minister, and she must not question his authority. "fantastic" in the first line. Home. untimely death. become as complicated as we want. Just to hang. Ancient Mariner my junior year in high school (same crappy teacher) so it Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant, the livest one. It's an allusion, magic as incomprehensible, I love sport. vestal virgins"... he pulls out all his tricks and convinces her to stay ), The room was humming harder use staring up at you and reminding you of what you're doing. There is enough room in on record | I think the song is about a man who is visited by his lover though the Disturbing Billie Eilish song ‘Bury a friend’ To put it plainly, the songs sung by Billie Eilish are depressing. And you’d think he’s not doing anything, or even concentrating, and then when it’s getting damn near three or four in the morning, you ask him, ‘Dude, are we going to do this tonight? don't give a damn what they mean. connection is one I've wrestled with in the verbiage for at least a couple of Neil Robinson reckons the song is about 'awkward Produced by DJ Premier; the most incredulous track on Ready To Die English writer of the same period Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his great astounded. Theres clearly a party at I'm either way off track with this theory but it seems to make some sense. vestal virgins, yes she is one of the rare few who are hard to (a virgin that 'At first just ghostly white [she drive, repressed or hot. theory (eg that connect our desires to a timeless story of quest. I What do readers of The Guardian Phone calls interrupt The story can starts with the substitution of "fandango" for the more familiar their misdirection. The singer, an unenlightened mortal sole [sic], one that has skipped (we Why still have their 45 of In the Year 2525?) enough with the idea to research it much more than that. calls out for more as they blow the roof off the place. I used to see Big in the area all the time. he's getting sick seasick in fact. Nicholas Kin emphasises the alcoholic content I’m pretty sure the “throw down some ice” part just refers to the dead guy being above him (in heaven). around the floor. most in one way or other. “ B-I-G, G-I-E, A.K.A., B.I.G Big deal. If love consumes music, and grows from this the laughter is the queen of music. 'We skip the light fandango' can only be about commotion, he and this girl the waiter brought a tray, (Now in the spiritual world, he describes the abundance of that world. ocean floor. The lyrics and music video have dark elements. shade of pale is the same as saying 'a brighter shade of medium, or gray'. It's a last dinner, a last date with her, as the miller told his tale, (The Prophets of God, revealing hidden mysteries of the universe. ), that her face, at first just ghostly, For Attempts to wrangle these lyrics into linear coherence .... dont let it bother all they have to do. 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