Wire and Glass Lyrics

[L. Bird]

>>I was a loser
>At the game they won

>This line flows better this way, but i'm not sure if it's right.  Did Ray
consider himself a failure in music?  He was a big star in his day, right?

Right, but he didn't get The Method to work properly.


>>Come on let's try to touch the peace

>Definitley 'fleece'.  I was going to point out that this line and 'we climb
the vine' in Mike Post Theme are both references to legends/fairy tales.

I'll go with that.  I have a really bad ear for sung lyrics, so I'm the 
worst in the worst in the world to transcribe.  However, no one else seemed 
to leap in to the breach.  :)

It took "climb the vine" to mean getting drunk.


>>How do all people forget
>That the waltz may seem (?)
>All about me longing for you
>You longing for me

>I heard 'war' not 'waltz' on the EP and felt more sure about that when I
heard Pete sing it.  I also thought it was 'old' pepole and Pete sounds like
he says 'pretend' but Roger sings 'forget'.

I'm getting that z sound on the end of it, but maybe he's saying "wars," 
which would make better sense grammar-wise.   On the EP I think Roger sings 
"The ? we see are all about...."


>>Shots rang out
>As the singer yourned

>Yourned?  That's an obscure word.  What's it mean?

It's not at Dictionary.com, but it is all over the Internet.  From context, 
it's about the same as "yearned."


>>With the victim dead
>With their blood in pools

>As I said, I heard these lines as questions.  How closely did you follow 
>the
novella?  Was there any doubt about the fate of the victim?

I followed it pretty closely, but that doesn't actually help.  It's magical 
realism and therefore something you have to interpret constantly.  
Apparently Satan and the Heavenly Host (in disguise) put in an appearance at 
a show that takes place at the Stairway to Heaven and then there's an 
afterparty at a pub called The Black Hole where the victim arrives and walks 
through The Mirror Door to a place where they're playing a song in B flat.  
What do you think?

Sounds like Judgement Day and passing into another plane of existence to me.


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