YTSEJAM Digest 2529
Today's Topics:
1) Damn.....
by Eric John Marlett <gt7262a@prism.gatech.edu>
2) TTT - chopped?
by "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" <NEVANS@us.oracle.com>
3) Re: Marillion concert
by drkhoe@gms.gmsnet.com (Dr. Mosh)
4) Kevin Moore
by Pat Daugherty <pdaugher@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
5)
by ladyheather@juno.com (Heather J Powers)
6) ma fawlt
by "Francesco" <f.mescino@som.com>
7) Re: for all you rush freaks.
by Damon Fibraio <damon@shell.monmouth.com>
8) kevin
by "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" <ripzero@dreamt.org>
9) Re: New CT, random input from me...
by Jak Thetfield <thetgyi@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
10) RE: Megadeth
by Mark Hatch-Miller <ace@onfire.net>
11)
by Lars Hellsten <larsh@ionsys.com>
12) Re: YTSEJAM digest 2528
by ernie@pananet.com (Ernesto Schnack)
13) My CD player hates me
by Rahul Ananda <spod@u.washington.edu>
14) cd player hell?
by "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" <ripzero@dreamt.org>
15) Re: My CD player hates me
by mamalookabubuday@juno.com (Scott Cook)
16) Whose opening for 'Ryche?
by Jak Thetfield <thetgyi@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
17) Metropolis
by "KorgX3" <ibanez@mailhost.cyberhighway.net>
18) Accomplice...
by jusenkyo@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Shane Liebling)
19) Surrounded in Chasing Amy
by Eric John Marlett <gt7262a@prism.gatech.edu>
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 14:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric John Marlett <gt7262a@prism.gatech.edu>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Damn.....
Message-ID: <199705021814.OAA29809@acmez.gatech.edu>
>Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 17:29:40 -0700
>From: RESPONSE at IBMMAIL <response@ibmmail.com>
>To: ytsejam@ax.com
>Subject: Mail Item Format Warning
>Message-ID: <33693574.613E@ibmmail.com>
Dear God.........Are the MFP records in jeopardy again?
Eric
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Date: 02 May 97 11:47:44 -0700
From: "NEVANS.US.ORACLE.COM" <NEVANS@us.oracle.com>
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: TTT - chopped?
Message-ID: <199705021850.LAA17800@mailseq4.us.oracle.com>
someone wrote:
>ie the Take
>The Time instrumental could be shortened by a good half a minute without
>the song losing anything.
What?!?! Did you happen to produce the video for TTT? argh...
-Neil.
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 12:02:12 -0700
From: drkhoe@gms.gmsnet.com (Dr. Mosh)
To: ytsejam@ax.com
Subject: Re: Marillion concert
Message-ID: <199705021902.MAA13209@gms.gmsnet.com>
On the Eve of Destruction, Graham Borland said:
>I saw Marillion live the other day.
>
ARGHH!!! You bastage!!!
Say it like it doesn't mean anything you whoreball!
-The Doc
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:05:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Daugherty <pdaugher@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> To: Dream Theater Mailing List <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Kevin Moore Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970502150218.14152C-100000@bdmserver>
I think the reason Kevin left was he wanted to do more stuff like Space Dye Vest and Tori amos type music. He went alternative.
John P and the rest of the band obviously wanted to do stuff like Metropolis.
Band members leave bands all the time because their views on the band differs from the rest of the band.
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Pat Daugherty pdaugher@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com | |=======================================================================| | "Every breath leaves me one less to my last" --Dream Theater | | "That is not an option, Mr. Mulder" --X-Files | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 15:23:23 EDT From: ladyheather@juno.com (Heather J Powers) To: ytsejam@ax.com Message-ID: <19970502.152120.16630.1.ladyheather@juno.com>
Um Im a musician....LOL just kidding....yeah I'm terrible I know :P -Lady Dragon
>Okay... but I would make the case that in most of the bands that I >listen to (since I can only speak for myself here), all of the members >ate musicians. >Hmmm....interesting theory. Everybody knows "you are what you eat." >Soylent Music
PS!!!!! My old web page with the lightning on it is back up thanks to LoneWolf saving the pages for me It will now be located at http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/1695
it is also linked to the secondary page and many of the sensual.index pieces have been updated....(finally) The geocities address is dead forever....Sorry to those who have links to it
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 14:56:57 Central Daylight Time From: "Francesco" <f.mescino@som.com> To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: ma fawlt Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970502145743.5c47a37c@mail.som.com>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I apologized to all the ytse's for that constant annoying message that appeared in the past few jams. It wasn't intended for the Jam, it was aimed primarily for co-workers and friends of mine. I should 've unsubscribe before I turned my old address into an automated response account. Hopefully Digest #2528 will be the last one you'll see it in.
FRANCESCO MESCINO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:17:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Fibraio <damon@shell.monmouth.com> To: Syrinx <syrinx@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: for all you rush freaks. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970502161633.4866B-100000@shell.monmouth.com>
I know this is old. But you forgot number 0. I say 0 because it's the line that will get you killed.
Hey, Neil. I am really sorry that you are dying of cancer.
Damon Fibraio Reach me at damon@shell.monmouth.com keyboardist, vocalist, radio personality professional dumb-ass "you can feel the waves coming on Let them destroy you or carry you on. You're fighting the weight of the world and no one can save you this time Close your eyes, you'll find all you need in your mind."--Dream Theater, Take the Time
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 15:36:10 -0500 From: "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" <ripzero@dreamt.org> To: Heavy Metal Computer Nerds <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: kevin Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970502203610.00714540@mail.inlink.com>
> >I think the reason Kevin left was he wanted to do more stuff like Space >Dye Vest and Tori amos type music. He went alternative. > >John P and the rest of the band obviously wanted to do stuff like Metropolis. > >Band members leave bands all the time because their views on the band >differs from the rest of the band.
i have to COMPLETELY disagree with the reasoning. have you heard DTs latest stuff? have you heard Kevins latest stuff? the new dream theater is hardly metropolis esque, its getting more grungy, more heavy, and i think kevin saw this as awake got heavier and less prog than i&w, and figured he didnt want it, and while he was at it would go do his solo CD. he also did keys for the new fates which was extremely proggish. The new DT on the other hand has parts that are reminiscent of stone temple pilots and smashing pumpkins. dont get your hopes down at me saying this, they're still ass kicking and talented writers, but their music is changing for the "now" genre, while kevins is not. just my thoughts and opinions.. all death threats are welcome :)
~Rip
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:53:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jak Thetfield <thetgyi@BGNet.bgsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: Re: New CT, random input from me... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970502164118.29969C-100000@bgnet1.bgsu.edu>
> Gave the new Cheap Trick two solid listens, and I can say for the first > time I am thoroughly disappointed with a Cheap Trick album. It is, IMHO, > awful...They still put on a great show though... June 7 at the Birch > Hill! Though I pray to god they play in the city too...
I never was really a big fan of Cheap Trick: at work last summer there wasn't a night that didn't go by where someone would play one of their songs on the jukebox. Plus, I always had that image of Apu of the Simpsons washing his purple car singing "Dream Police". But, after I saw them open for Stone Temple Pilots (yes, I like STP _and_ DT), I was blown away. I even snagged one of Rick's guitar picks (he tossed a bazillion of them into the crowd). I want to check out their boxed set, but if any CT fans have any album recommendations via private e-mail, it would be greatly appreciated. I want a 5-neck Hamer!
> I'm ordering from KTS...The screen says I'll be paying $160, but the > sale prices aren't listed. Do they apply the sale prices, or should > I call?
When I ordered, I used the sale prices. Just change the values on the screen.
> >But I don't think Shockwave would be much of a music fan.
True, but Blaster probably would. Optimus: "Blaster, turn that earthling prog rock down...what's it called, 'Nightmare Cinema'?"
> Okay: Shockwave was the gun and Soundwave was the cassette player, > right? I always wondered why they both shrank so much when they > transformed.
They were more than meets the eye...
Evil Decepticon,
G. Jack Thetgyi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you play 'Daydream Believer' backwards, it says "Austin [Powers] is God" -Peter Tork, Spyography "What's Up, Jack?" -Lars Ulrich, to me, before I asked James about the Rayderz; Rockline, 7/96. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 14:49:35 -0700 From: Mark Hatch-Miller <ace@onfire.net> To: "ytsejam@ax.com" <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: RE: Megadeth Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970502144930.00698da0@onfire.net>
<SNIP> Dave mentioned that the US Tour will start in late July, kicking off with a Vegas date. <SNIP>
Dave lied : ) 'Deth is playing their first show in Phoenix, their hometown, at Mesa Ampitheater on Friday June 13. Of course, this is before the album comes out and before the rest of the tour starts, but there will also be a special listening party for fan club members and a meet and greet for the fan club as well. I LOVE PHOENIX!!
: )
Mark
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 17:39:32 -0400 From: Lars Hellsten <larsh@ionsys.com> To: ytsejam@ax.com Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970502173925.007f0820@ionsys.com>
> As a study in contrasts, the Metropolis doesn't really build for >me at all.. I find the song starts to culminate to the climax when the >lyrics START again and not before.. ie the two soft lines and then the >band comes in hard and gets back to the song.. which is how it feels >because it seems like they've been playing something out of a medley for >the last two minutes.
I disagree. I don't think parts of the first half of the instrumental jam necessarily fit into the song, but I just think the whole instrumental has this kind of surreal feeling in it, which I love. Especially right before the vocals come in. That long ascending part is incredible, and that IS the climax, IMHO. That's before the vocals!
Besides, maybe this is a stretch (but I've had so much practice at making up BS like this in English class :) ), but I think that whole instrumental part represents love ("the third"). The instrumental represents the emotional rollercoaster you ride when you're in love with someone. And notice the line: "love is the dance of eternity". Well, that wicked crazy part sounds like it's going to go on forever.
Maybe I am stretching this interpretation, but I think Metropolis as a whole fits together quite nicely. There are maybe a couple of lines of the instrumental I would cut, but that's because I don't like them, but those parts could flow in someone else's mind.
Besides, I love that riff right before the vocals come in, and the keyboard riff for the first few bars after the vocals is so good, simple, but it sounds awesome (KevMo rules!) And during that long ascending run, I get multiple orgasms. I mean, geez, it's what, 30 seconds long? And you want to cut that part out? If you had a girlfriend who could give you a 30-second orgasm, would you dump her? I don't think so!!!
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 17:16:29 -0400 From: ernie@pananet.com (Ernesto Schnack) To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Re: YTSEJAM digest 2528 Message-ID: <19970502211623.AAA21559@mail.pananet.com>
>Is it possible, what with the variety of sounds that DT puts out, for >them to come up with a trademark type of sound? >
I think they found it w/ the new stuff... of course, I'be listened to them once, but it seemed very much so. THey're somewhere between straight-ahead metal, groovy rock, and prog.
>way!)... I don't expect everyone to have a music theory background, but >please remember that *almost* everything you hear in a song (except >percussion, usually) is based on scales. The singer is singing diatonically >(in the scale/key), the chords work around given scales, etc..
I'm well aware of that. I just find certain parts sound like if someone where practicing their scales, not playing music. THat's what I'm referrimg to w/ tweeddledy-tweedledy-scales.
of course DT are guilty of it too. There's a pattern in Met. that's one JP sweeping exercises. >This isn't meant as a flame, just as a point of clarification for people who >like to dismiss the "virtuosic" sections of many songs as "another of those >teedledy parts".. >
I like o lot f virtuosic sections, but I basically have two distinctions... those that simply come naturally, and those that are played as if they had to have something virtuosic their.
I guess virtuosic is a better term than tweedledy:)
but ya know, as always, it has to do w/ the listener. Maybe I'm missing someghing from Cliffhanger that you're not. And as you can see, while I feel that the instrumental section to Metropilis is vital to the song ( especially the total insanity towards the end) other people find it unnecessary (especially the to total insanity towards the end).
>From: "Francesco Mescino" <francesco.b.meschino@som.com> >To: ytsejam@ax.com >Subject: Response from Francesco Mescino (francesco.b.meschino@som.com) >Message-ID: <19970501172659.53a88d85.in@mail.som.com> > > > >You may no longer reach me at this E-Mail address. >I've changed and modified my last name to Mescino. >The new address is f.mescino@som.com.
Is this, like , IBMMAIL 's long lost twin???
thankyouverymuch Ernie
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:24:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Rahul Ananda <spod@u.washington.edu> To: Fucknuts <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: My CD player hates me Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970502151659.67254A-100000@dante07.u.washington.edu>
It's happening again. All of my CD's are in pristine condition. BUT: whenever i try to play a prog rock album (DT, the new fates, Lemur Voice, Rush, Yes, Crimson, Zappa, etc), the fucking thing just spins the disc for awhile, then the display reads "no disc" WHEN THERE IS CLEARLY A CD IN THE PLAYER.
Jazz is great. It loves Coltrane, Bird, Miles, Monk, and the like. It's down with Stravinsky, Bartok, and Holst. It thinks the Dave Matthews band is cool. And Michael Hedges.
How do you repair a picky CD player? All deprecating remarks may be sent to the address below. I expect to be owned.
Cut Deep.
Rahul Ananda : spod@u.washington.edu or thehand@dreamt.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- The universe divided as the Heart and Mind collided : At paranoia's poison door : The pen won't stay the Demon's wings : The Weaver and the Web that he made : The youngest of the family is moving with authority : Willing to risk salvation to escape from isolation : You've drowned in your soul's emptiness : Bus stop rat bag haha charade you are : Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout : Searching for the answers but there's D A M A G E ----------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 17:33:57 -0500 From: "Rip, Cow Virtuoso" <ripzero@dreamt.org> To: Heavy Metal Computer Nerds <ytsejam@ax.com> Subject: cd player hell? Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970502223357.0071ae80@mail.inlink.com>
> >How do you repair a picky CD player? All deprecating remarks >may be sent to the address below. I expect to be owned.
maybe it cant handle CDs longer than 60 minutes or something, that explains why the prog rock wont go through.. all the damn albums are at least 70 :)
~Rip
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 20:40:44 EDT From: mamalookabubuday@juno.com (Scott Cook) To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Re: My CD player hates me Message-ID: <19970502.174258.8686.8.Mamalookabubuday@juno.com>
>It's happening again. All of my CD's are in pristine condition. >BUT: whenever i try to play a prog rock album (DT, the new fates, >Lemur Voice, Rush, Yes, Crimson, Zappa, etc), the fucking thing >just spins the disc for awhile, then the display reads "no disc" >WHEN THERE IS CLEARLY A CD IN THE PLAYER.
I have a similar problem. A lot of my cd's skip when they first start playing and I have to take them out and blow on the playing surface and that sems to take care of the problem.
The other thing could be you have a deck that has a hard time playing cd's with a lot of artwork on the album. I had a machine like that and it was the most frusting thing to deal with. I had a pic cd of Elvis' The Alternate Aloha for about four years before I ever got to listen to it.
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 21:20:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jak Thetfield <thetgyi@BGNet.bgsu.edu> To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Whose opening for 'Ryche? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970502211310.28949A-100000@bgnet1.bgsu.edu>
I found this on the QR Campaign's webpage:
>Though an opening band has not been made official yet, many rumors >continue to flying around the internet and elsewhere about who it will >be exactly. > >Throughout the course of the Radio Interview Tour this past March, the >band hinted to the public, many ideas of who they'd like to see open >up for them. Some bands have already gone as far as to submit a request >to open up for QueensrXche. Below you will find a list of these bands. > >Again, nothing is official yet... but we can say that at least ONE of >these bands is 99.9% sure of opening up for the band... can you guess >which one? > >Filter ... Screaming Trees ...Gravity Kills ... Tool ... >Alice Cooper ... Dream Theater
Since we are already aware of DT's recording schedule, it's probably not them. Screaming Trees are also from Seattle, so they could be a logical guess. Alice Cooper's probably too busy playing golf...not that that's a bad thing. I wouldn't be surprised to see Filter or Gravity Kills opening because they're the 2 bands I don't really care for and learning that Type O Negative was opening was a surprise for me 2 years ago. Any guesses?
Sincerely,
G. Jack Thetgyi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you play 'Daydream Believer' backwards, it says "Austin [Powers] is God" -Peter Tork, Spyography "What's Up, Jack?" -Lars Ulrich, to me, before I asked James about the Rayderz; Rockline, 7/96. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 19:38:00 +0000 From: "KorgX3" <ibanez@mailhost.cyberhighway.net> To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Metropolis Message-ID: <199705030137.SAA14740@odin.ax.com>
> Maybe I am stretching this interpretation, but I think Metropolis as a > whole fits together quite nicely. There are maybe a couple of lines of the > instrumental I would cut, but that's because I don't like them, but those > parts could flow in someone else's mind.
Too bad they had to rip off Looney Tunes to make part of the instrumental. Al in all I still like it alot. :) Those Looney Tunes composers had mucho talent. Ever notice? :)
There's that one part I hear reminds me every time of the part in the "Untouchables" Episode where Bugs is role-playing Elliot Ness (named Eligant Mess, or something), and he's tracking down the criminal Mugsey and that huge oversized stupid guy the goes, "OK, Mugsey, I'll get em for ya" then ends up screwing up and getting smacked around by the pint size dude. Anyway... you get the point.
Now there's the part where he chases them into the cereal factory and they're riding around on the conveyor belts and crap and it starts playing some funky music in the background. I swear it sounds like Metropolis solo at (I'm listenening for the part right now...) 6:20. I always see bugs righting down a chute into a little twirly thing and a popcorn popper or something at this point. It's kinda refreshing since I think that's my favorite Bugs cartoon anyway.
Just thought I'd share that. :) Anyone else ever get this kind of Looney relation? Or is this in the FAQ and I just glanced over it? :) Laterz funky peoples!
"Dreams CAN come true as long as you stay awake..." ---Some T-Shirt I saw in a catalogue. "Cheer up! Life's only Temporary!" ---My sick friend Cori KorgX3 a.k.a. Llama-boy ibanez@cyberhighway.net
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 20:39:47 -0700 From: jusenkyo@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Shane Liebling) To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Accomplice... Message-ID: <v02130501af906304c488@[128.32.100.59]>
Hey all, I doubt any of you have heard of these guys before but you should check them out! They are a band named Accomplice. I just got their CD and it rocks. Has kind of a Rush feel to it, but it also feels kinda DT'ish. The vocals and guitars are awesome! If you want to hear some samples check out their site at http://www.earthlink.com/~accomplice. Pretty damn cool stuff. And how can you say anything about a band that opened for Savatage?
-Shane Currently listening to: Accomplice - Accomplice
PS: Anyone in the Berkeley area, I might be able to hook you up with the CD if you are interested.
______________________________________________________________________________ I Shane Liebling I I was told there's a miracle for each I I jusenkyo@uclink4.berkeley.edu I day that I try. I was told there's a I I http://www.earthlink.net/~mariachi I new love that's born for each one I I CAA Tweeker & Ytsejammer I that has died... Love is the Dance of I I Member of A.M.M.O. since 1997 I Eternity."Metropolis" - Dream Theater I ______________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 01:34:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric John Marlett <gt7262a@prism.gatech.edu> To: ytsejam@ax.com Subject: Surrounded in Chasing Amy Message-ID: <199705030534.BAA16817@acmez.gatech.edu>
So there are times, I suppose, when one just has to express an idea. That's what I'm doing. I just saw Chasing Amy, and it honestly touched me. I loved it. That said, the reason I bring it up is because it gave me a little insight into a DT song that I never really saw there before. On the way home from the theater, I had LATM playing in the car, and track 4 came on. Surrounded. And then the movie and the song seemed to sort of fuse in some strange, bizarre manner and this is what came to me.
"Morning comes too early and nighttime falls too late, and sometimes all I want to do is wait...."
Holden's heart is increasingly restless and his days are becoming more and more painful to bear with the secret that he holds in himself, that he cannot share with Alyssa, and so he waits....
"The shadow I've been hiding in has fled from me today. I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye. But I will raise a shelter to the sky, and here beneath this star tonight I'll lie. She will slowly yield the light as I awaken from the longest night......"
But then the moment comes when he can wait no longer and he tells her that he loves her. Scared of her own feelings for him, she bolts from the car and plans to hitchhike back to the city, but he runs after her in the rain, underneath stars they cannot see, and as he walks away from her insistent refusals, she jumps him from behind and they kiss for the first time. They've found each other, and in each other they've found something that both were looking for but neither had yet discovered.
"Dreams are shaking, set sirens waking up tired eyes, with the light the memories all rush into his head....."
The morning after their first night together.
"By a candle stands a mirror of his heart and soul she dances. She was dancing through the night above his bed." He realizes, truly for the first time, that this girl is the one. She's the other part of his soul that he's been missing his whole life. He knows this, and yet cannot fully accept it.
"And walking to the window he throws the shutters out against the wall, and from an ivory tower hears her call, 'Let the light surround you.....'"
As he slowly comes to understand exactly what sort of past Alyssa has, the image of what he thought he really wanted looms ever larger in his mind. This woman in the ivory tower is his unadulterated, virginal, pure angel that he yearns for, and he sees that while she beckons to him, his heart lays with Alyssa, though she's not in the tower.....
"It's been a long, long time, he's had a while to think it over. In the end he only sees the change, light to dark, dark to light, light to dark, dark to light....."
He tries to overcome the difficulty he's having with coming to terms with the fact that she's done a hell of a lot more than he has, but in the end, there is only the contrast between his ideal and who Alyssa really is....
"Heaven must be more than this when angels waken with a kiss. Sacred hearts won't take the pain, but mine will never be the same. He stands before the window, his shadow slowly fading from the wall, and from an ivory tower hears her call, 'Let the light surround you.....'"
The dichotomy, the division in his passion, rages, and he sees his ideal slipping away. He wanted a "normal" relationship, and he tries to convince himself that he was right, and that that sort of relationship would be something more, something better than what he has with Alyssa. He tells himself that if his heart was really what he thought it was, if he had a scared heart, then he wouldn't even bother with this girl who was far from perfect in his eyes, and yet he knows that he could never willingly let her go. And still his angel calls from her tower......
"Once lost but I was found, when I heard the stained glass shatter all around me. I sent the spirits tumbling down the hill, but I will hold this one on high above me still. She whispers words to clear my mind. I once could see, but now at last I'm blind...."
At last his love overpowers his ingrained notions of what's right, he turns his back on the woman in the tower, and he truly appreciates, finally, that who Alyssa is means more to him than who he thinks she should be. For so long, all he could see was what she had been, and he couldn't deal with that. And then he becomes blind to that wall that stands between them. The only problem is that by this time she has already left him.......
"I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye, but I had given all that I could take, and now I've only habits left to break....."
He knows that he's lost her, and now all he has is that "pride that became nothing but regret"....
"Tonight I'll still be lying here, surrounded in all the light...."
The woman in the ivory tower was his Light. Alyssa was his Dark. Now that she's gone, all he has is the Light, and so he's destined to be forever Chasing Amy.
The insight that I saw into the song, that I mentioned way the hell up there, is essentially this. "I once could see, but now at last I'm blind." Is this about forgiveness? That's the significance that it has for me now. I'm sure someone out there saw this years ago, and that's fine, but this is a new angle to the song, in my eyes anyway, and I wanted to share that, for after all, isn't that what this list is for? Besides, you can't fault me for lack of DT content. ;)
Eric
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