Reply #9: It's a personal thing, I guess [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

If you're not into it, that's cool, but to me and many others, it's just pretty mind-blowing. The understated, haunting bass lines and John's wispy, dreamlike lyrics - the opening two verses are so progressive and so perfect in pitch; in a way, the even foreshadow the best of alternative music. John's lyrics are pure poetry; disturbing and disarming. Though I may be the only one who thinks this, when I listened to the song after listening to the Red Hot Chili Pepper's BTW album, I felt like they could be singing "A Day in the Life."

But, of course, the song doesn't end with the first two verses. The apocolyptic crescendo that follows is jarring, in a way that I found impossible to like at first, but have, in time, grown to love. Then comes Paul's insert, lyrically so appropriate, with just the right beat and pitch, witch trails off in John's wail and, what I feel is the climax of the song, the soaring orchestration that accompanies it, before abruptly cutting back to John's third verse, done fast and upbeat, before ending in echo and another crescendo...