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[SinfulEyes]

What?

[Pokey]

The thing with the "la da das" is that here is just seems to have a nicer melody, and I always took the "la da da" part to be the actual children's song ... I don't quite know what it means, but it seems to fit into this song where as The River it's a boring bland melody which doesn't really add to the song.

The slide guitar is wonderful and different and I really wished that Live showed that level of branching out with different instruments in later years, it could have really helped give some songs a bit of a twist.
The lyrics are some of my favorite that Ed's done, the before mentioned

in spite of my confusion
up above all my pain
I gotta death grip on this vision
here we go again

but also the lines

The face and ghost my guide
I must move on
It's the face of one ravaged by love
It's both dead and alive

There's just something great about the imagery that comes to my mind of this ghostly face that has felt the absolute highs of love and the lows of hurt.

lost in the maya
overboard in the sea
there was void and then that water broke
then something called "me"
now a trip to the desert to look at the sky
it's like never-ending mirrors
playing tricks on my eyes

That is one of my favorite Live verses ever ... there is just something so magical about those words together .. I think this song more than any other Live song just paints these amazing images in my head, sometimes I see desert, other times Mayan jungles of south America.