........I want to apologize for the low quality of some of these images. This was one of the first YouTube videos I made and I guess I did not know what I was doing. They don't do this incredible album justice, I know.Sorry again.....
- My attempt at an album \"review\" of sorts: I believe a lot of the lyrics on this album are more driven to evoking emotions in the listener as opposed to making any concrete or direct lyrical sense. I think they are fantastic, nonetheless (there are a lot of feelings a person sometimes just can't put into intelligible words or thought structures, anyway), but to say they are up to interpretation is putting it a little mildly. I think the overall feel of the album is largely a hopeful, even playful, one, even including, perhaps, the slightly darker, forlorn and desolate \"Love is All\" And I love the jokey, ironic idea in \"The King of Spain\" that a person's identity might be totally re-written through the eyes of another person: \" because you named me as your lover, I thought I could be anything\" There seems to be more of a sort of general agreement from some listeners as to what the lyrics to \"Thousand ways\" might mean or hint at, at least on a basic level. This song is my favorite track off the album, not only because I happen to love riddle poems, but for its beautiful sound as well. We'll see if you can guess the riddle for yourself (if you haven't already). The image I chose should be a pretty large clue . Here are the lyrics:
\" Thousand Ways\"
Oh, I have lived for ages I'm a thousand turns of tides
I'm a thousand wakes of springtime and a
Thousand infant cries
Oh, a thousand infant cries
I've got sixteen hundred tigers now tied to silver strings
When they plowed in the pastures, oh the mighty heart will sing
Oh, the mighty heart will sing
But I'll always be blamed for the sun
Going down with us all
But I'm the light in the middle
Of every man's fall
I bend my arrows now in circles
And I shoot around the hill
If I don't get you in the morning
By the evening I sure will
By the evening I sure will
Because I'm the fire on the mountain
You have lit up in your dream
But also water on the fountain
You could send myself on me
You could send myself on me
Because I'll always be blamed
For the sun going down with us all
But I'm the light in the middle of every man's fall
And no I never meant to say these
Words but yes you ought to know
That the dark in what I've always been
It will not ever go
No it will not ever go
And for so I lived a thousand years
A thousand turns of tides
Just a thousand leaves in autumn
And a thousand ways to try
Oh, a thousand
It's just a thousand ways to try
Ways to try
.......Beautiful........Thank you so much for listening to this superb album from our tallest friend. Cheers!
