donderdag, 27 januari 2005
Park
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Ik kwam zojuist een 18 minuten durende dixo 12-inch tegen van MacArthur Park. Die ik niet ga posten uit bandbreedte-overwegingen, maar het blijft toch een van de vreemdste teksten ooit.
Zelf denk ik dat het met LSD te maken heeft, maar ja, wie ben ik? Iemand ideeën over de herkomst van de tekst in dit nummer?
Reacties
Love, found and lost... http://experts.about.com/q/3260/2482895.htm
Gert Jan - 27/01/2005 om 23:38:32
En om de link van Gert-Jan maar te citeren:
JIMMY WEBB: "I always think that whatever is art, need not and should not be explained, as someone once said. "But I'll tell you: MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then. Still, the lyrics never stopped Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and any number of trash garage bands from doing it - and who else can say that about one of their songs"?
Helder!
Araglin - 28/01/2005 om 17:36:07
"is clearly about a love affair ending" Op dat clearly is nog wel wat af te dingen...
Lars - 28/01/2005 om 21:37:24
Ik kwam zojuist een 18 minuten durende dixo 12-inch tegen van MacArthur Park.
Weet je nog waar??
ep - 28/11/2006 om 13:03:47
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