disclaimer: please don't flood this project with 'OMG ATE'. i usually don't mind it, but at this point in my life, im gonna need something NOT superficial. disclaimer about the disclaimer: im definitely guilty of doing this and i definitely don't find anything inherently wrong with saying things that are socially acceptable - this is just a personal choice for this project TW: unaliving yourself (sry for tt censorship) hello my friends! today i made a teeny tiny cover of a song by THE GOAT THE ONE AND ONLY SIMON *clap please* if you haven't noticed, i haven't really been posting much recently. this is for a few reasons actually, but that isn't what this project is about so i'll keep it brief. essentially, burnout, vacations in places where google is BANNED and a sit ton of sit on my plate knocked me out of the spop loop. and then my band-lab got banned (because australia) so that didn't help. and now i because i am less popular, i post less, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. but i swear ill try to join back trustst! anyways i swear this song is a masterpiece. i mean, it's the first (probably not the first but the first that would come to mind) spop song that i stopped and thought about the lyrics. sure, i like upbeat songs, but THIS is what i'm here for. let's talk about simon's voice. it's visceral and SO emotional - it was the perfect decision for a song like this... well i guess not 'decision' ... it perfectly conveys the song. but also the concept of it is so articulate and sophisticated i could genuinely ramble on about it. the song seems peaceful, comforting, as a lullaby should. but i believe it is describing something adjacent to sucidal ideation - the guilt of leaving friends and family, or maybe the world in general. peace within the departure. one thing i would want to point out is how each of the verses are themed. the first verse paints a picture of a night sky above the ocean, and addresses 'serenity'. "hush thee, serenity, as time could never wake ye" i interpret this as an inability to experience a state of being untroubled while alive. the second verse still references that mental image from the first, but instead addresses 'my lovely dear'. for me, this is more about the world and the people in it. it is more intimate and letter-like. it does have this PEAK line "this pain that i'll become, is as temporary as the sun" because the sun isn't temporary but it leaves during the night - it won't fully disappear but it will not be here constantly. the bridge seems to be a slight reference to Eden:Overgrown, i won't go into it too much but i think it's an excellent allegory/metaphor (depending on how you see it). and of course the infamous now ... now ... now ... part i can't even help myself- OMG ATE HOW MANY LETTERS IN LULLABYE an alternative interpretation could be that it is about natural death, which explains a few of the lines such as "please don't waste this time", but i feel more like that refers to the metaphor of night being a time away from the sun - away from grief/hurt/etc i just want to say that this analysis is pretty heavy - i mean this is a heavy song but still - but i hold on to the idea that that was the whole point of the music like this. there's one aspect, which is becoming an outlet for ones own emotions, but the other is helping others get through stuff like this. music has always been one of the most common ways to cope and make life a little better, and im sure us in the music comm would agree. this might partially be a response to controversies from a while ago that died down - because i never did get to posting that opinions project lol overall, i am so jealous of you simon, but i am always jealous when i admire ;) oh yeah and please heart my project :> and listen to my cover :) art by
