I believe the end "stanza" type thing at the end of 5/4 is this:
I'm lost in you
open my eyes
you set me free
and lift me up
You held me
I'm lost in you
You're Jesus.
I think this makes alot more sense considering Jeremy's feeling about Jesus at the
time. AND when you consider that he just was making up the lyrics while he was singing
them, it seems reasonable that he would just ramble generic "god is good" lyrics.
-matt c.
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:50:49 FallHills wrote:
>I have never paid much attention to the various interpretations of lyrics for
>the pink album that find their way around, having forund most of them quite
>silly (and angering!). But there is a line at the end of "5/4" that I find
>very pinteresting in its mysteriousness, but not too fitting of what is
>generally led on to be Jeremy's true convictions. Though I do think its
>obvious the side of Jeremy that fans see is just that: a side for fans. He
>doesn't tell us what he really feels because it isn't really something we
>have a right to ask for, or that he feels comfortable offering. And that if
>his lyrics seem dark sometimes, in real life the meaning behind them are
>probably infinately darker.
>
>The words at the end of "5/4", I think, are something to the effect of: "You
>set me free; won't let me out. You hurt me; I must hurt you... You, Jesus."
>
>Being that this is just an interpretation I've believed in since first
>hearing the song, I cannot find anything else he may be saying, though it
>DOES sound like he could be doing so. Knowing Jeremy's public views on the
>subject of religion, I would tend to think such a solid blow to God's adam's
>apple would not fall in too well with the Good Old Guy. But I find it very
>profound, and quite dead-on about that religion in itself. For what else does
>this "God" really do but "set you free"? For he certainly does nothing else
>beyond that farcical term...
>
>I do think this may be a reason Jeremy tends to shun talking about lyrics for
>this album, preferring to keep them hidden within the linings of his jackets.
>And it would go well with the period in which the album was written. The band
>was breaking up, chiefly (or so I've been led to think) because of Jeremy's
>increasing religious fanaticism, and none of the members like to talk about
>those days now. Perhaps Jeremy had found God, but was confused as to what
>purpose such a life-changing ordeal may serve? And now that he has found a
>better understanding, he doesn't believe in his words anymore, choosing not
>to let them made known.
>
>Or it could easily be I am entirely off the mark here. Has anyone else any
>thoughts on what the "You, Jesus" line might actually be?
>
>I would like to think Jeremy had understood more about Christianity than what
>he told the "fans" in that horrible letter from the old SDRE-L. I've always
>found Jeremy to be very intelligent, and that letter alone has been my only
>disappointment to his character, not that his "character" is any of my
>business anyway. But I just think his explanation of finding God is foolish.
>
>I think God is foolish.
>
>But as for the song, does anyone else think it may be something else?
>
>
>"Drove home to that achingly long song: The one that moves so slow..."
>
>Alan.
>
>
>P.S. Please do not insult me for my lack of respect for Christianity. I don't
>have a lack of respect for your faiths, if any of you have one, but I do have
>one for the religion, and that is not something neccesary of insult. I
>haven't insulted Jeremy's faith (though I have been disappointed by it), and
>wish him to go wherever he wants to, whenever he wants to.
>
>
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