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Sep. 2nd, 2007 12:15 amReasons why I love "Golden Dawn" by The Legendary Pink Dots
1. It is incredibly romantic, and it is frightening, it is about a romance set against the backdrop of the Apocalypse
2. It is about escaping by the skin of your teeth, and such narratives appeal to me
3. The last verse, both because of content, and because of reason #2 reminds me of the ending of Nicholas Christoper's "Veronica." Also I am wondering whether in some way, structurally, it reminds me of "Borrowed Love Poems," which wouldn't really be appealing, because that poem deeply affected me in a traumatizing way, and was a poisonous one for my soul.
4. All the positive imagery in the song is vague and ambivalent, the goal supposedly reached, the deliverance of the "golden dawn" is plotted against haunting, sad music
5. The verses progress, bringing the listener more and more evidence of something terrifying and apocalyptic in progress, gradually. In the first verse, the lovers can still find a cave and ignore what is going on around them. In the second verse, they cross their fingers, and manage to escape in a car, as the fog is "creeping slow", and "the deathbirth is peeping through the window." In the last verse,
I read the news and you heard the sirens.
We packed, then we flew to an island which no one else could find.
But what I like about this progression of verses is that it is unclear whether this is a chronological unfolding, or three variations on an Apocalypse.
ETA: Also I love the ambiguity in the beginning of the second verse, "I drew a star, and you drew a circle"
1. It is incredibly romantic, and it is frightening, it is about a romance set against the backdrop of the Apocalypse
2. It is about escaping by the skin of your teeth, and such narratives appeal to me
3. The last verse, both because of content, and because of reason #2 reminds me of the ending of Nicholas Christoper's "Veronica." Also I am wondering whether in some way, structurally, it reminds me of "Borrowed Love Poems," which wouldn't really be appealing, because that poem deeply affected me in a traumatizing way, and was a poisonous one for my soul.
4. All the positive imagery in the song is vague and ambivalent, the goal supposedly reached, the deliverance of the "golden dawn" is plotted against haunting, sad music
5. The verses progress, bringing the listener more and more evidence of something terrifying and apocalyptic in progress, gradually. In the first verse, the lovers can still find a cave and ignore what is going on around them. In the second verse, they cross their fingers, and manage to escape in a car, as the fog is "creeping slow", and "the deathbirth is peeping through the window." In the last verse,
I read the news and you heard the sirens.
We packed, then we flew to an island which no one else could find.
But what I like about this progression of verses is that it is unclear whether this is a chronological unfolding, or three variations on an Apocalypse.
ETA: Also I love the ambiguity in the beginning of the second verse, "I drew a star, and you drew a circle"
