As Earth Has Doors revealed, Miles is excellent at conveying a feeling in his compositions "As the Orchard Is With Rain" managed to be mournful and contemplative without offering any lyrical narrative at all. In some instances, his lyrics are buoyed by the emotional heft of his instrumentation. The devil is brought up, as are ashes, darkness, and "a murder of crows." They're all deeply resonant images on their own, but after the album's 40 minutes are up, it's easy to feel like he's dipped into the Dictionary of Symbols one too many times. But as the album goes on, the lyrics get more and more symbolic with varying degrees of success. And "Youth's Lonely Wilderness" seems to speak directly to Miles' loss ("Here we stand, two broken friends/ One beyond and one below"). And as he explained in an interview, that's probably the case: "Lyrically, a fairly direct mirror of my life at the time." The most direct example of that is "Pale Moon", where the lyrics are riddled with loving analogies before revealing some hard truths ("you want to be free from me," and "I just can't go on when I'm this tired"). Almost every song seems to come from a place of pain, confusion, or struggle.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |