Window Sill
troubledsoulsunite
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I noticed that in Deep and in release that Eddie mentions a "window sill". does anyone know what the significance of these lines are? Is it similar to the way that shades are referenced in both daughter and rvm?
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In Release it's "I see the World/Feel the chill/Which way to Go/ Window Sill"
I envision the narrator standing at a window pondering his several options.
In Deep It's "On the edge/a window sill/Ponders his maker/Ponders his will/to the streets below/he just ain't nothin/but he's got a great view/and he sinks the needle deep..."
I envision the narrator looking out of maybe a city apartment. Something up high where everything below is busy and moving around without him. Like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, everything seems peaceful from that high above. He's got all of his heroin ready. Arm tie up and ready to inject. "Ponders his maker/Ponders his will" makes me think he's feeling isolated, both physically by being up high above the streets, and obviously personally as well. The fact that everything below is so far from him, and the "great view" isolates him even more by character. Everything pure is in his view, but he's lonely at the top, where he's got a serious drug problem. I feel as though he questions what it's like on the pure side of things. He wants to change for that moment as he looks out the window, but then kind of snaps out of it with a "nah... fuck it" type thing and then sinks the needle. He thinks less systematically and resorts to the easy way out (the needle).
Both are great songs. Deep is awesome in a sense that it paints a lot of imagery in your mind. I don't know if the uses of window sills are related... probably just something Ed liked enough to use twice