1/2 full

Ms. Haiku

Climbing on a mountain
Floating out on the sea
Far from lights of a city
The elements they speak to me...

Whispering that life
Existed long before greed...
Balancing the world
On its knee...

Don't see some men as half empty
See them half full of shit
Thinking that we're all but slaves
There's ain't gonna be

No middle anymore
It's been said before
The haves be having more
Yet still bored

Won't someone save?
Won't someone save
The world?



What do you think? The first two parts I can picture, the second two are more philosophical, and the last part seems like the protagonist gave up but is not looking at what he can do because he is so fed up with others. It's as if the protagonist put a shield around him/herself to distance him/herself from others, but by doing so the disconnect of all results in the saving of none.

crislx

I see “½ Full” as an eco song. As in the ancient fables, when men got away from civilization and, suddenly, good old mother Earth starts talking to them about what's wrong. I've always thought this second part was "the elements" voice, their thoughts on human greed towards the environment.

Ms. Haiku

crislx wrote:

I see “½ Full” as an eco song. As in the ancient fables, when men got away from civilization and, suddenly, good old mother Earth starts talking to them about what's wrong. I've always thought this second part was "the elements" voice, their thoughts on human greed towards the environment.

Wow, that is cool! I don't really see it so much in the song, but the song would be great if that's what is meant to happen.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Er, it advocates a prelapsarian, counter-urban idyll, and then alludes to a line in Porch, reinscribing the statement, about there being no middle anymore, within the context of socially-urgent, ecological polemic: the lyric is, in sum, a call to an actively oppositional, rather than middle-ground and complacent, response to corporate damage to the planet.


Worthy sentiments, but I like art to maintain a relative autonomy from political commitment, in order for that dialectic power, which so much good art has, to kick in. You need to avoid sloganeering too much, lest you risk that Yoko-singing-Luck-of-the-Irish syndrome. This lyric borders on that feel of the easy sloganeering song, to a tried and tested blues waltz format. Not a fan, sorry.

There ya go, Ms. Haiku. Lit. Crit.

Ms. Haiku

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Er, it advocates a prelapsarian, counter-urban idyll, and then alludes to a line in Porch, reinscribing the statement, about there being no middle anymore, within the context of socially-urgent, ecological polemic: the lyric is, in sum, a call to an actively oppositional, rather than middle-ground and complacent, response to corporate damage to the planet.


Worthy sentiments, but I like art to maintain a relative autonomy from political commitment, in order for that dialectic power, which so much good art has, to kick in. You need to avoid sloganeering too much, lest you risk that Yoko-singing-Luck-of-the-Irish syndrome. This lyric borders on that feel of the easy sloganeering song, to a tried and tested blues waltz format. Not a fan, sorry.

There ya go, Ms. Haiku. Lit. Crit.

Fins . . . you're so YOU!

I think art with the political commitment inspires more dialogue, though.

Androgynous Mind

I always thought that this song was in reference to the growing division of the social classes in America. The middle class is disappearing. The rich are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer.

...No middle anymore
It's been said before
The haves be having more
Yet still bored...