Using star's, wave's, angel's, any thing as imagry in song lyric's is cool if you can pull it off with some sort of sincerity. I think Jeremy is able to do that. I think he is a great lyricist and a poet. I find his song lyrics very very poetic. Writing song lyric's isnt the easiest thing to do either. But I can be kinda biased and supportive of the thing's he write's about because I enjoy reading and writing poetry myself, and I also relate to Jeremy's lyrics more than I do an artist who only writes about feeling sorry for themselves and writing about how bleak and depressing the world is in their eyes. This has been my 2 cents. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone who knows something about christian or eastern religion give any > > comments on the possible inferences or references he's making? > > I'm kind of skeptical that anything that profound can be read in to it. For > the most part, the lyrics to The Ocean are just recycled old ones, mixed and > matched from various songs. There are some all-new lines, like the one about > being a shining star (am I the one that finds that line incredibly cheesy?). > > Anyway, that's kind of how I felt about the whole song. It just didn't seem > like anything new or different to me. Nothing about it surprised me. It'd be > nice if this song was just a b-side, but I guess it isn't. Just my opinion, > and sorry to all the apologists out there. > > Mike
