pietro saino
September 14th, 2007, 08:15 PM
Hi all! I'm glad to be back here among you! I missed talking about Darren Hayes so much!
Listening to "this delicate thing we've made" I've noticed that Darren, more than in other albums, talks about God and in general I have the feeling that there is a pursuit of something spiritual...
Maybe I'm wrong (you have to know that I'm italian and that I haven't just understood the whole sense of every song:in this case I need the help of the english-language people!) but the first track in which Darren speaks about God is "Step into the light"...I've read that someone thinks that it is referred to a person Darren loved but the first two lines "I have turned away from you and I am Godless" seem to talk about God, indeed. And "there is nothing of you, now, no ghost/ no flower, not a seed nor perfume, in your place" seems to express the frustration about the absence of the phisical presence of God....the absence of signs, in a way. And doesn't the "I have murdered the divine in me" line confirm that?
After this we find the explicit "A conversation with God": what are your feelings and thoughts about the lyrics? it seems to talk about a conflictual relationship between the human being and God but, to me, in a positive way: there is an everlasting pursuit of God, an everlasting pursuit of the Truth, of the sense of life.
My next doubt is about "The sun is always blinding me": it is clear that it is a bittersweet song permeated of something spiritual....but whom that "her" is referred to? Life? Truth? or Darren is referring, like Beatles' "Let it be", to the Mother Mary? I have not translated all the lyrics, maybe I'm wrong...once again I need your help because you not only are native speaker of English but you also own the cultural keys to understand some hidden meanings that I could not notice....I personally think that that "her" is not referred to a woman...
The last song in which we can find a pursuit of spirituality is the wonderful (to me one of the best song sung and written by Darren ever) "Maybe". Like "you can still be free", the lyrics wonder about the sense of death, painting some touchful images/metaphors of the place where people go after death, the form they become...always in a bittersweet way.
That's all, my friends....I hope you'll help me...I'd like to talk about this amazing album again and again, trying to understand more its beautiful meanings day by day...!
and, as usual, sorry for my english! brrrrrr ihihih
Listening to "this delicate thing we've made" I've noticed that Darren, more than in other albums, talks about God and in general I have the feeling that there is a pursuit of something spiritual...
Maybe I'm wrong (you have to know that I'm italian and that I haven't just understood the whole sense of every song:in this case I need the help of the english-language people!) but the first track in which Darren speaks about God is "Step into the light"...I've read that someone thinks that it is referred to a person Darren loved but the first two lines "I have turned away from you and I am Godless" seem to talk about God, indeed. And "there is nothing of you, now, no ghost/ no flower, not a seed nor perfume, in your place" seems to express the frustration about the absence of the phisical presence of God....the absence of signs, in a way. And doesn't the "I have murdered the divine in me" line confirm that?
After this we find the explicit "A conversation with God": what are your feelings and thoughts about the lyrics? it seems to talk about a conflictual relationship between the human being and God but, to me, in a positive way: there is an everlasting pursuit of God, an everlasting pursuit of the Truth, of the sense of life.
My next doubt is about "The sun is always blinding me": it is clear that it is a bittersweet song permeated of something spiritual....but whom that "her" is referred to? Life? Truth? or Darren is referring, like Beatles' "Let it be", to the Mother Mary? I have not translated all the lyrics, maybe I'm wrong...once again I need your help because you not only are native speaker of English but you also own the cultural keys to understand some hidden meanings that I could not notice....I personally think that that "her" is not referred to a woman...
The last song in which we can find a pursuit of spirituality is the wonderful (to me one of the best song sung and written by Darren ever) "Maybe". Like "you can still be free", the lyrics wonder about the sense of death, painting some touchful images/metaphors of the place where people go after death, the form they become...always in a bittersweet way.
That's all, my friends....I hope you'll help me...I'd like to talk about this amazing album again and again, trying to understand more its beautiful meanings day by day...!
and, as usual, sorry for my english! brrrrrr ihihih