Anyone here ever disappointed when they find out the true meaning of some PF songs?

ongs?

When I first heard the true meaning of Wish You Were Here was about wishing the band(Or Roger himself) as people wishing they were who they were a long time ago kind of disappointed me since I thought it was the quintessential song about wishing someone in particular was here, but when I went through a particular phase in my life for a few months(This year actually) I started to appreciate the song more this way than what I thought and hoped it meant before and wouldn't have preferred it any other way I'm glad someone channeled that feeling into a song. It has helped me through the worst damn year of my life.

Floyd songs are so unique in a way that they're too personal and deep to have general, so-and-so meanings as opposed to meanings with their own fingerprints and particular situations.

Just because that's one person's interpretation doesn't mean that's what you have to adopt. Unless that's what the band said. But it doesn't matter then either. If you find a meaning that you like in a song and has a profound effect on you, keep thinking that way! That's what's great about music. People have different interpretations, and each one has a different effect on different people. I think it's better to listen to a song that already gives you comfort, despite what other people think it means, than to have to find another song.

People have plenty of different interpretations of Lucy In the Sky w/ Diamonds, and despite what John Lennon said about it, most people kept to their thoughts towards it! (for better or for worse.......)

I never bother too much with what the songs are supposed to mean, I just enjoy them for what they are.

Yes, I have in the past been disappointed to hear what a song was actually about. With Roger Waters' songs, there usually a little phrase or part of the song that I don't understand the way he intended...and it is that little ambiguity that makes the song special to my life.

When I find out what that little bit ACTUALLY means...it looses some of the magic.

eg "there's something in the air
and you don't know what is,
you see someone through the window,
who you just learned to miss,
and the road leads on to glory,
but you used up your last wish
your last wish,
and you want her to come home"

I saw a film clip for that song the other day, and it seems like the "someone" is an ex wife or something...I always thought it was something more profound than that (like in the context of the entire album).

i was disheartened to find that "turning japanese" was not about masturbation.

It isn't? That's so disappointing!

i know. i cried.

I am disappointed by the real meaning of this thread, does that count

I used to think that "Itsy Bitsy Spider" was a metaphor explaining world politics and a universal economy which hoped to to keep the classes separate by using a demeaning monetary system focused on consumerism that forced the poor to buy more, thus enabling the wealthy to continue to gain wealth all at the same time keeping the poor from gaining footsteps in the economic ladder.

Then I became a Republican and realized it was really about welfare.

My day's ruined now

I feel disappointed for the whole planet... I feel disappointed for Floyd, Tull, anyone who has got it, then I think somehow you have to keep loosing it again (the balance) to get it back, because so far... I've been scanning the Web for those whose passions finally came to fruition and got air time... and I see 'fan' mail as in 'nice eyebrows' and 'cool rifts' and then I think... No wonder the world is so .... Sheep.

If only the Fan would be a Fan unto themselves!

Then flattery would not be sycophancy... but just... I follow your feelings... As far as the lyrics go, sure, different interpretations, but my exprience of life is that words, beliefs, opinions, are much like a painting only richer and if you take it at it form, you can't see into it... You can't see what moves the person.

Anyway, fan as in not a hedonist... because they have gone and turned themselves into a commodity... Which in offering themselves as one, makes you think, if that is all you are, why wouldn't I trade up? Also, if I can be bought... what is to buy?

Heaps of skin walking around....

cheers

t

profound.

wuh?

By 'profound' do you mean 'complete and utter bollocks'?