scrolling until i see particular individuals from a particular community of scholars who all recently endured a great amount of pain at the hands of this very song (i will not elaborate until 24 hours have passed like a good kid)
This song is about a very lonely lighthouse keeper who is of high class. He has gone completely mad from his solitude and mental anguish that he has suffered from. His wife died and he blames himself for it and can't forgive himself. He sees hallucinations and ghosts that want to kill him. He supposedly also accidentally killed a couple of sailors by not showing them the way via the lighthouse's shining light. He feels regret towards everything he has done during his miserable life and wants to end it all. At the very end he finds potential friends (the lemmings that represent humanity), but doesn't feel like he belongs anymore. Since he is so batshit crazy and depressed, he kills himself in the end and believes that he is now with his long dead wife. What a masterpiece this song is. A very dark, depressing masterpiece...
Am I the only one that can't make it to the end without crying? This is one of my favorite tracks of all time, the lyrics and the music are just so powerful and emotional, and they also hit closely to me. Peter Hammill is one of the greatest musicians of all time and him having almost not recognition at all feels so wrong
I love the 'first time hearing' and 'How did I miss this' comments, gives me hope for music. I've been listening to this for 45 years, most of my friends didn't have the attention span for it, so mostly I listened whilst I was "COMPLETELY ALONE!"......
scrolling until i see particular individuals from a particular community of scholars who all recently endured a great amount of pain at the hands of this very song (i will not elaborate until 24 hours have passed like a good kid)
Who else is here from the ib exams?
the most sophisticated, literate rock band of all time.
To what extent does this constitute justified true belief?
Anyone else coming here to review bomb this song cuz of IB EnglishLitA ?
This song is about a very lonely lighthouse keeper who is of high class. He has gone completely mad from his solitude and mental anguish that he has suffered from. His wife died and he blames himself for it and can't forgive himself. He sees hallucinations and ghosts that want to kill him. He supposedly also accidentally killed a couple of sailors by not showing them the way via the lighthouse's shining light. He feels regret towards everything he has done during his miserable life and wants to end it all. At the very end he finds potential friends (the lemmings that represent humanity), but doesn't feel like he belongs anymore. Since he is so batshit crazy and depressed, he kills himself in the end and believes that he is now with his long dead wife. What a masterpiece this song is. A very dark, depressing masterpiece...
Am I the only one that can't make it to the end without crying? This is one of my favorite tracks of all time, the lyrics and the music are just so powerful and emotional, and they also hit closely to me. Peter Hammill is one of the greatest musicians of all time and him having almost not recognition at all feels so wrong
The way the song portrays loneliness and regret slowly eating you is perfect.
IB M22 HOW DO WE FEEL
This sounds nothing like how I imagined it
“I don’t want to hate,I just want to grow;
This is so groundbreaking for 1971
When you grew up with this music your mind was changed forever---for the better
I don’t know words describe this artistic masterpiece
It took three engineers to master this masterpiece, and one Peter H to dream it up. Advanced genius
Work of genius. Just like all great music, this will never get old.
un vero autentico CAPOLAVORO!!! Peter Hammill un genio con una voce unica e incredibile, una creatività immensa e i VDGG un gruppo STRAORDINARIO!!!
Unfiltered, unadulterated, unmatched complete and total perfection in every sense of the word.
I've been listening to this song for over 40 years but when he sings "the parallels...." at
I love the 'first time hearing' and 'How did I miss this' comments, gives me hope for music. I've been listening to this for 45 years, most of my friends didn't have the attention span for it, so mostly I listened whilst I was "COMPLETELY ALONE!"......