i do believe, however that jeremy (or dan) said once that the song was
about "love and suicide". I know that much for sure. I also recall
something along the order of "a guy sitting on a beach mourning his lost
love, and decides to kill himself". Sounds tragic to me. The lyric was
most LIKELY (but it WAS an earlier song [diary days]) written by jeremy
because he improvised most of the lyrics on lp2. so who knows (it doesn't
really matter). Jeremy was most likely in his early 20's (very early), so
it's not unlikely that he conciously wrote most of the lyrics. He was
nineteen when diary came out, and most of the songs were written well
before that. He's pretty good, even though he doesn't deserve all the
credit. dan is a fucking genius.
love ryan
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > done. But, i think the lyrics are "Shakespeare sang
> > err on err" and its
> > all about tragedy.
>
> That's pretty cool, but I think you're giving way too much credit. I don't
> know if it was Dan or Jeremy that wrote that lyric; it seems like a Jeremy
> lyric (from the little I know about the differences between their lyrics). I
> doubt a 17/18-yr-old Jeremy (Rodeo Jones is one of their earliest songs)
> would've sung something so arcane and literary. A lot of the LP2 lyrics are
> awesome, but some are just nonsense that, based on the way they're slurred, I
> suspect were improved in a drunken haze. Maybe not as much for Rodeo Jones
> though, since it's one of the older songs on that record. All dumb
> speculation, I know.
>
> > I cant think of one shakespearen
> > character who was in
> > love that had it work well. It was all about pain,
> > and fucking up.
>
> There are a lot of shakespeare characters whose love works out well, it's
> just that shakespeare's most famous plays are tragedies (hamlet, romeo &
> juliet).
>
> Maybe if the word "err" had ever appeared in any other SDRE song, I'd guess
> differently, but my guess is still that it's "air on air." Althought I think
> "hair on hair" would be a really cool lyric!
>
> Shakespeare was the first one who said, "To err is human," though.
>
> I always thought "ere" just meant "here."
>
> xoxo,
> Mike
>
