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Courtly and mysterious and so gentle-sounding it makes your flesh creep.Most of Cat’s songs about women have a weird edge to them, a fact not lost on Women’s Liberation. I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul
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+ Cat’s political visions indicate a less than nodding acquaintance with current events.
by The Clash features some Spanish lines by the Texas singer Joe Ely. Awesome! View all notifications See if you can match the song to the scene. In this song, Stevens examines spirituality and fate. Hey, click the icon to check the status of your “Moonshadow”?
The song is a picture of a spirit sitting by a "devil's lake", singing words like birds and...
Ellen Willis, the rock critic of the New Yorker, thinks that ” ‘Wild World’ betrays a condescending, sexist viewpoint.” Reverse the roles, she says, and “It’s hard to imagine a woman sadly warning her ex-lover that he’s too innocent for the big bad world out there.” True, and that goes for “Sad Lisa,” too.
For instance, “I’m Gonna Get Me a Gun,” with its never-to-be-sufficient refrain of “I’m gonna get me a gun,/And all those people who put me down, better get ready to run.”Then came his TB cure and two years of searching for satori. An absurd flamenco guitar flourish keeps popping up as Cat heralds the new day when “the people of the world/Can all live in one room.” I know he means something nice by that, but taken at face value it sounds like a proposal for universal genocide.The only lyric on the album that makes a really sophisticated, coherent statement about the world is “Morning Has Broken.” As Cat announces at his concerts, “Morning Has Broken” was a “hit hymn” of the Victorian Age. "I listen to the wind of my soul" and "Where I'll end up, well I think only God really knows" means that the spirit is now in God's hands. Continue unregistered This is not the painfully contrived exoticism of most pseudo-folk-songs. In less than two minutes, “The Wind” compresses Cat’s philosophy and a description of his working methods into a few mysterious images.
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