Not necessarily my favourite song on the album, as it's so good, but yeah, obviously up there...
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Over-analysis here!: Section 1
" get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain we'll give you a complex, and we'll give it a name
get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same liquid or gas no more than the glass will contain "
Watching a Dutch interview with him (which I'll post here as soon as I figure out how to rip the streaming video - I'll post instructions for that as well... ) in which he describes a hierarchy and constant "labeling" while at school and away... an institutionalizing. Quantifying aptitudes in society within distinct parameters... a rationalization, characterization, numeration (?) of what people see before them.
" when you talk about the hand of glory a tale that's rather grim and gory is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed? when the tales of brothers Grimm and Gorey have been outlawed "
The Grimm and Gorey is further detailed in the following section...
" I think they're gonna make you start over You don't want to start over Put your backpack on your shoulder Be the good little soldier Take your places now 'Cause we're all predisposed "
Literal sense, starting over a grade. No one wants to start over. I'm reminded of a saying my friend often uses... "Step up". Sometimes you have to put your backpack on your shoulder and march on. Now, I think he most likely means this in the opposite sense, again attacking convention... being soldier like, listening and following orders, status quo measuring cups.
" Put your backpack on your shoulder Be the good little soldier It's no different when your older You're predisposed That's all for questions now The case is closed! "
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I was discussing with someone recently that the world is bound by rationality, even at the sake of feeling. This is how you're supposed to do this, this is how you get over that, shutdown, 'de-clawed', 'outlawed', 'case is closed!', etc... A strategy for being able to organize, and theoretically to try to feel better with organized thoughts...
Why not just feel; what's wrong with that? Discuss, talk, listen to feelings, I think, and that will bring on other feelings, and ultimately, when feelings are involved it's not a rational decision most of the time, so why approach it like that?! Lists of positives and negatives.. hate them. Ultimately, some pros or cons have higher weighting than others, so then what? A weighted matrix? How does one stay objective giving something a higher weighting? Ultimately, it comes down to feeling(s)! One can't categorize everything.
Grimm's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law "Grimm's law was the first non-trivial systematic sound change to be discovered in linguistics; its formulation was a turning point in the development of linguistics, enabling the introduction of a rigorous methodology to historical linguistic research."
- which I think is appropriate given how Andrew Bird writes his albums.
Further interest in Grimm and Gorey? I now have an answer to when a loved one will roll on their side, try to fall asleep or just take a nap, and ask me to tell them a bedtime story - a theme for me to this blog.
When I knew we were lost, I was confused. Questions of future, love, trust, all bemused. But it was just time, our time to move on. Empty dopamine IV drip forgone. Now comes good reason, and we were recused.
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