Reading the posts about misheard lyrics and confused meanings adding a
certain something to a song...I for many years believed the line 'With heaven
full of astronauts and the lord on death row' to be with heaven full of
astronauts and the lord under thrown. Which i thought was joni playing about
with the idea of something rather unspectacularly being over thrown by a
thing far inferior in quality and what it has to offer us. The battle between
technology and spirituality, reaching out, destroying the mysteries, the
hopes the prayers the magic and ultimately faith. Having to solve all the
riddles and for what?? The thing is i thought it was a wonderful line and
held it up as one of her greatest and most deeply moving. I was touched by it
in a complete and profound manner. So what say you?
Still i sent up my prayer
wondering where it had to go
with heaven full of astronauts
and the lord under thrown
I still love my interpretation and when i sing along I sing
underthrown...more out of habit i think, but also theres a little bit of me
that resonates with that rather than the written lyric.
All my love and all you fellow islanders enjoy trhe bank holiday and don't
forget your factor 45.
Clive
