blindmelon1091
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Post by blindmelon1091 on Jun 16, 2006 15:36:51 GMT -5
I've recently been obsessed with the song "Pull" and I always thought it was a great song. Anyways is it just me or does this song basically seem to dictate an LSD experience to you? It really depends on how you view the lyrics though. "Shades turned so the colors die" seems to support this theory. And if you look at "Don't hold too tight to the reel, 'Cuz it's a big one boy, Gonna pull you down now"........as "Don't hold too tight to the real"...it could mean a powerful LSD experience. "The real" could be referring to how the hallucinations are fake and not real but that he's not able to hold on to "the real" because the acid experience is too strong and it "pulls you down now". Anyway has anyone ever looked at "Pull" this way? If you look at it in this perspective it make a lot of sense. Any input guys?
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Post by azrael on Jun 16, 2006 18:02:56 GMT -5
I love that song too! I went throught the obsession phase with it a while back.
Chris Thorn says it was 'written in a New York city hotel room'. Probably just a rambling in that case, but worth analysing nonetheless.
the reel/real idea is interesting, though 'it's gonna pull you down now' suggest it is a something has caught him & reeling him in, but that is below him, so reeling him in/pulling him down. maybe he's feeling pulled down (the arms open wide imagery suggest crucifiction, but knees knelt suggests something lower than the chirst image) but the ending seems to be redeeming
Sounds rather arrogant & elitist to me but seems to me like he's not pulled down anymore (& the mood of the music would confirm this to me as in the end it seems rather optimistic)
going back to the christ imagery, infact the cook could be a divine entity, probably his god, but shannon feels like he's being payed no attention because 'he's got his eye on the kettle', yet the cook/god will be there 'when you or you or you need to feel' (when you repent/realise the error of your ways/initiate a personal metanoia, or other such jargon)
yet this cook will be around 'in deed', not 'indeed' as it sounds, this cook then seems to be benevolent, another divine characteristic
than again, because of my own religious disposition (& fall & redemption being such a part of my own writing) it's easy to see it in this light & my bias has probably prevented me from seeing anything intended & rather seeing what I want to see
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Post by johnblue2001 on Jun 26, 2006 19:26:15 GMT -5
yea myself i just thought twas bout some devine being watchin over us,and shannons experiences with drugs.......ye guys really thought this one through
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