Taken from "Universal Truths and Cycles" 2002
""Make it" comes alive
In my private glass tent
A portable mortuary
Going...
Going...
But not yet gone
'Cus when it does, it does and then...
The ancient practice
Of mourning the phantom
Do you really think he
Would choose to inhabit the pore
Where his container was planted?
...can't imagine that"
Another song just dripping with longing and feels like a small part of a musical epic. Short and consisting of mainly bobs voice, acoustic guitar and a keyboard but has the feeling of a song much bigger than its parts.
Saturday 20 October 2007
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Title is The Weeping Bogeyman
Bob said he spent a lot of time on the lyrics for VTAC. Wish I knew what this one was about. Sci-fi imagery with the "where the container was planted". Coffin? Coming back from the dead? A phantom comes back from the dead.
we hear of a morutary, something "comes alive".
is "my private glass tent" a car? A car is "portable" and people die in them often.
Title corrected. Mistype.
Sci-Fi Bob eh?
"make it" comes alive In my private glass tent
means Pollard hears his song on the radio in his car.
When your songs gets played on the radio it means to "make it" in the business, at least it used to.
A portable mortuary is definately a car.
Going...
Going...
But not yet gone
'Cus when it does, it does and then...
That bit refers to Fame or Life in general. Not sure.
I think "mourning the phantom" means mourning a person but Bob is saying the phantom is the soul and the real person.
Do you really think he
Would choose to inhabit the pore
Where his container was planted?
...can't imagine that"
Means the soul is no longer in the body and there is no reason to keep up the "ancient practice" of mourning over just a piece of meat.
Does this relate to someone hearing their song on the radio and then dying?
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