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It's funny. How long has this band been around now? Thirty years or so? And they still do the same thing. Songs that "fit" neat categories. It's not bad for what it is, but eh.
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Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
Stone said this came later in the process, at Shangri-La and that his said this one keeps revealing itself to him. His understanding of the song has been a slow burn and is now one of his favorites from DM.
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Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
Oooooh, I love etymology talk! Could be it comes from horse racing? You know, England's staple pastime.
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Val wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
Oooooh, I love etymology talk! Could be it comes from horse racing? You know, England's staple pastime.
ah yeah it's definitely used in horse racing too
also according to Google I should be using the word "straight"; strait means something different? I will continue to use "strait" though as I am allergic to the other word
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Ms Harmless wrote:
Val wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
Oooooh, I love etymology talk! Could be it comes from horse racing? You know, England's staple pastime.
ah yeah it's definitely used in horse racing too
also according to Google I should be using the word "straight"; strait means something different? I will continue to use "strait" though as I am allergic to the other word
A strait would a body of water. Dire Straits, remember
Now the reasons I think this is about a divorce/lost relationship and not Chris Cornell....
Quote:
Visited by thought Another darkened day How you are like the sun Hiding somewhere beyond the rain
I’m needing for the light Stormy is the grey Rivers overflowing Drowning all our yesterdays
To me, this is saying that the person whose absence is darkening him is still out there but just not available to him. Reminds me of "I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why, can't it be, oh can't it be mine?"
Quote:
Visited by thoughts On another darkened week How even every winner Hits a losing streak
The mistakes we all make And perfectly repeat Chains are made, by dna refusing Refusing to release
Comes off to me as talking about damage done after years of repeating the same patterns, past trauma etc, like a long relationship that finally fractures after years of making the same mistakes and not fixing them.
Quote:
Combing through the wreckage Pouring through the sand Surrounded by the remnants What we could and couldn’t have
Raking through the ashes Falling through my hands Charcoal on the faces in the Burned up photographs
The charcoal on faces in the burned up photographs thing just feels too personal to me. I see this as being surrounded by old and now sour memories of the life he had and lost.
Quote:
Visited by thoughts And this I got to say If you’re feeling the leaving I can’t make you stay
I’ve only ever wanted For it not to be this way But you’re now like the water And the water will find its way
This could be about anything, the death of somebody who committed suicide surely, but also just the simple explanation of somebody wanted to leave him and they did, and there's nothing he can do about it anymore. (this theme will play into other lyrics on other songs that seem to support that reading, but we will get to that when the album releases)
Quote:
Combing through the wreckage Holding out,... holding on Combing through the wreckage Combing through the wreckage
Visited by thoughts And not just in the night That I no longer give a fuck Who is wrong and who’s right
This game of winner takes all And all means nothing left Spoils go the victor And the other left for dead
This part is IMO the biggest sign this is about a relationship gone sour and not about a friend's death. They used to argue, and it seems unimportant now. That in their quest to be right, and win arguments, etc, they were left with everything (they won) and nothing (they lost the other). I see the "left for dead" part as a double meaning. An expression of how little he and the other person cared about the other and the effect they had on them in their quest to be right, and also him now being left alone by the other, which he is slightly resentful of. So both regretful (I didn't care about your feelings) and mournful/resentful (you don't care for mine).
I see this song as Eddie having been left by somebody he cares about, and he is sad, regretful for his own part in it, acknowledging the patterns that led them there, and slightly angry that it happened and he is surrounded by the remnants to sort through the 'wreckage' he has been left with, his old life now reduced to painful memories.
This reading IMO is also supported by (Spoilers for unreleased song lyrics)
Setting Sun, in which Eddie seems to mourn that he tried to repair and hold on to a love with somebody he thought he would be with forever, but they left him, and though he still sees them together he feels that the other person does not. To me there is a mixture of betrayal and regret and desperation.
Now the reasons I think this is about a divorce/lost relationship and not Chris Cornell....
Quote:
Visited by thought Another darkened day How you are like the sun Hiding somewhere beyond the rain
I’m needing for the light Stormy is the grey Rivers overflowing Drowning all our yesterdays
To me, this is saying that the person whose absence is darkening him is still out there but just not available to him. Reminds me of "I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why, can't it be, oh can't it be mine?"
Quote:
Visited by thoughts On another darkened week How even every winner Hits a losing streak
The mistakes we all make And perfectly repeat Chains are made, by dna refusing Refusing to release
Comes off to me as talking about damage done after years of repeating the same patterns, past trauma etc, like a long relationship that finally fractures after years of making the same mistakes and not fixing them.
Quote:
Combing through the wreckage Pouring through the sand Surrounded by the remnants What we could and couldn’t have
Raking through the ashes Falling through my hands Charcoal on the faces in the Burned up photographs
The charcoal on faces in the burned up photographs thing just feels too personal to me. I see this as being surrounded by old and now sour memories of the life he had and lost.
Quote:
Visited by thoughts And this I got to say If you’re feeling the leaving I can’t make you stay
I’ve only ever wanted For it not to be this way But you’re now like the water And the water will find its way
This could be about anything, the death of somebody who committed suicide surely, but also just the simple explanation of somebody wanted to leave him and they did, and there's nothing he can do about it anymore. (this theme will play into other lyrics on other songs that seem to support that reading, but we will get to that when the album releases)
Quote:
Combing through the wreckage Holding out,... holding on Combing through the wreckage Combing through the wreckage
Visited by thoughts And not just in the night That I no longer give a fuck Who is wrong and who’s right
This game of winner takes all And all means nothing left Spoils go the victor And the other left for dead
This part is IMO the biggest sign this is about a relationship gone sour and not about a friend's death. They used to argue, and it seems unimportant now. That in their quest to be right, and win arguments, etc, they were left with everything (they won) and nothing (they lost the other). I see the "left for dead" part as a double meaning. An expression of how little he and the other person cared about the other and the effect they had on them in their quest to be right, and also him now being left alone by the other, which he is slightly resentful of. So both regretful (I didn't care about your feelings) and mournful/resentful (you don't care for mine).
I see this song as Eddie having been left by somebody he cares about, and he is sad, regretful for his own part in it, acknowledging the patterns that led them there, and slightly angry that it happened and he is surrounded by the remnants to sort through the 'wreckage' he has been left with, his old life now reduced to painful memories.
This reading IMO is also supported by (Spoilers for unreleased song lyrics)
Setting Sun, in which Eddie seems to mourn that he tried to repair and hold on to a love with somebody he thought he would be with forever, but they left him, and though he still sees them together he feels that the other person does not. To me there is a mixture of betrayal and regret and desperation.
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Val wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Val wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
we're gonna be fine, home strait now
Forgive my subject change, but I'm always curious about sayings in different countries. Is this the phrase used there? Here in the States it is the "home stretch". I wonder how/why it changed for us here?
I'm not sure tbh! I understand home stretch as well; I think strait is specific to running? and I've also heard it in Formula 1, which my dad used to love growing up (it's generally pretty popular here among the middle class especially)
haha yeah, I watch a lot of F1 and hear it there, but they are always announcers from the UK saying it!
Oooooh, I love etymology talk! Could be it comes from horse racing? You know, England's staple pastime.
ah yeah it's definitely used in horse racing too
also according to Google I should be using the word "straight"; strait means something different? I will continue to use "strait" though as I am allergic to the other word
A strait would a body of water. Dire Straits, remember
it means narrow, strict, constricted, as in strait-laced or strait-jacket, does that sound relevant to the water thing?
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