Hmm.. I believe, that LP2 is an album of unrequited love. And i dont
think that it's giving someone(s) too much credit to say that they've used
an allusion to Shakespeare when they're in their teens/early 20s. Being a
writer has nothing to do with age, you know what i mean?
jane.
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
>
