The Beauty of Ed Options

[Merica]

Let's take a little time out to remember some of our favourite Live lyrics - back in the glory days when Ed was at his peak. He really was a world class songwriter. Lately, I can't get this out of my head:

Like Himayalan cold winter
These jaws of Kali Yuga
Yeah, it's a crazy kind of cold
A lifeless slumber in a stranglehold
Yeah Tibet, she can't even touch this
I'd rather freeze in her forests
We're in a spiritual winter
And I long for the one who is

Fire!
Amongst the dreamers
You are in my heart

It's just pure fucking brilliance; absolutely masterful use of language - simply amazing stuff.

What lyrics are you currently high on, or are your personal favourites in general?

[Pokey]

Was always really fond of one of his absolute earliest:

I though I knew exactly what scared me
And I'd never have to run again
So I went to sleep and began dreaming
Of perfect lives and paradise
Woke up and started screaming

It's very simple but for such a youngin the idea of believing you have things pretty good, so you sleep and dream of how life could actually be, then you wake up to the realization that things are not as sweet as your dream and reality sets in.

I know it may not be exactly that but that's what I got out of it.

I'm also a big fan of:

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
//
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

It's just beautiful imagery. I have no idea why but the words of this song make me picture beautiful ancient Aztec ruins and south American moutain sides. It's hard to even explain but when it just makes you feel something it's great. The image of this "face and ghost" being sone kind of being the has experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows, ravaged by love which can bring both of those things. Simultaneously being drained of life and full of life. I just love it.

All of Operation Spirit of course, all of Brothers Unaware. I've always loved the use of words in:

used steel
used steel am I
what was pliable in love
is now hard and crystallized
the intellect is fine
for counting money
and recalling times
that she cried,
"groundless and free"

hope is a letter that never arrives
delivered by the postman of my fear

But every example in this thread so far I totally agree with. It's not always about the content of the song, it can be as Ray pointed out, the use of language. Image and feeling provoking language. I can't recall an album that sounded sonically in the same sphere as TC did at the time have messages from Krishnamurti throughout, it made it so unique! It was in some ways like hoodwinking a kid into eating good food when they think they're eating junk food. People rocking the fuck out to the music with more than "just words" of love behind them, but real philosophy and spiritualism.

This post has been edited by Pokey: Oct 18 2011, 1:21 am