There are some some songs* that I just melt when I listen to. It must have something to do with the inflections but I personally believe it's just the passion and emphasis they place on what they mean...on what really matters (to them). :Sigh:
Right now it's a song I heard just when I was eating at Taco Mac last week (serendipity!). The artist is potentially becoming a favorite just because this is the second song I found that I really like. First one you read about a couple entries ago, 'Desert Rose.' That's right, it's Sting. Besides, The Police - hello! Good songs all around.
Anyway, it's just these lines.
"If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do"
Hrm, not that there's anything that amazing in those lines anyway. It's mostly just that first line but it feels so empty without the second line so I just had to copy it in there as well. I wonder why I love it so much. I know when I first heard him singing it I wanted to know what song was playing. Instantly. It's gotta be the love. You can feel it. :Sigh:
I think lately - especially with my own, and hearing about my friends' lives - I've been wondering about well, guys. Particularly struggling with guys that haven't treated girls well (betraying trust). And then I hear songs like this and I wonder when I'll feel this way. You know, the stuff that novels are made out of!
I mean, I hear all the time how guys are disappointed because girls have such high expectations because of whatever Disney fantasy plays in the girls mind, but don't you think that if a guy really found an amazing girl, well, he could do something of the sort? In this time frame? I mean, I'm not talking about buying expensive jewelry or anything, I'm talking about sweet things like spending time together hanging out and ... man, I think I lost/jumped about my/three train(s) of thought and I'm talking about something entirely different now. Gar, hate it when I do this. Anyway, back to IP** now.
* fine, two
** You don't even want to know.
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The whole song feels like it comes together to give each phrase power.
ReplyDelete"You could say I lost my faith in science and progress
You could say I lost my belief in the holy church
You could say I lost my sense of direction
You could say all of this and worse but
If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do"
He is saying he could lose his faith in everything else that is important to him, but none of it would compare to this one person.
However, on this song, something has been nagging me. As said above, it is rather poetic and powerful...but... I think he is saying something else as well. I realize it is sort of irrelevant to the real focus of your writing, but Sting seems like a person who tries to place meaning in every word he sings and thus I can't help but try and understand what he was really trying to say....
So, I can't help but wonder. Throughout the song, he says 'you could say...', which is notably different from the chorus line of 'If I ever'. One is a sort of accusation, 3rd person, not definite; the other is absolute: if he did. I wonder why he says it that way...
If you look at it as saying 'well everyone is saying this, and its pretty much true', why say it that way? It would be stronger if he just said everything in a more definite manner.....
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...but he didn't...
Hmm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Y-qZQ_DTk
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the first half of your statement,
"He is saying he could lose his faith in everything else that is important to him, but none of it would compare to this one person."
I don't think he's saying that these things are important to him right now. I believe he might have believed in it at one point (placed faith in it), but realized there was no permanence.
And that in a way, this is his last hope ("there would be nothing left for him to do"). Also, he has experienced everything else (science, progress, Holy Church, ...) and found nothing that kept him satisfied until well, this person.
So I disagree with the "could" part (I think he has already). And I disagree with when you wrote that "none of it would compare to this one person" (I mean, once you've lost faith in something or in his sense, it's gone. Your statement is open enough to leave interpretation that there could still be something valuable in say, science, progress, ... I think he's saying there is no comparison at all. Which he emphasizes many time throughout the song)
I guess it's more of a, there's nothing left for me to try or experiment with (say, if science didn't work, try progress, try this, ...) after this one person. Not, science did not satisfy me as much as this one special person.
You can also tell he doesn't think much of these other ideas (science, progress,...) when he sings, "I could be lost inside their lies without a trace."
And I believe he says "you could say..." because this is what many other people believe in. It might even be what he once believed in (which is what I think). That's why it's generalized. He's categorizing what many people devote their lives to. If he had sang, "I believed in ... science, progress,.." OK backtrack. I believe it's generalized because he's saying other people haven't experienced this love yet, and how other people have still been placing their faith in other things. Make sense?
"If I ever..." shows his own belief.
So when you wrote,
"If you look at it as saying 'well everyone is saying this, and its pretty much true', why say it that way? "
I disagree with the "and it's pretty much true." Because it's not true, I don't think Sting believes that is most important, and thus that's why it's "you could say". Because it's what "you" think. You're not wrong in your opinion. That's why it's an opinion.
"You could say" is a much stronger way than saying "I used to say/believe" because everyone eventually grows up, and it only relates to Sting. Writing "you" encompasses everybody now.
What do you thinK?
if she were really amazing she'd be more down to earth
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