Dance Of The Clairvoyants lyrics

Sea
Sea Posts: 3,136
edited February 2020 in The Porch
“Dance Of The Clairvoyants” Lyrics

Confusion is,...to commotion
What love is,…to our devotion
Imperceptibly big, big as the ocean
And equally hard to control

So save your predictions
And burn your assumptions
Love is friction
Ripe for comfort

Endless equations
And tugging persuasions
Doors open up
To interpretation

Expecting perfection leaves a lot to ignore
When the past is the present and the future’s no more
When every tomorrow is the same as before

The looser things get,...the tighter you become
The looser things get,...tighter
There’s not one man, who’s greater than the sum
That’s not a negative thought, I’m positive

Falling down,...not staying down
Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down
Drown in the river

Expecting perfection leaves a lot to endure
When the past is the present and the future’s no more
When every tomorrow is the same as before

Numbers keep falling off the calendars floor
Stuck in our boxes, windows open no more
Collecting up the forget-me-nots
Not recalling what they’re for
I’m in love with clairvoyants
Cause they’re out of this world

I know the girls wanna dance…
Away their circumstance
I know the boys wanna grow,..
Their dix and fix and fire things

I know the girls wanna dance…
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know the boys wanna grow,...
Their dix and fix and fire things

Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back!

Took my love...to have and to hold
Held me down in the river
Took my love...to have and to hold
Drowning in the river

Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back!

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  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    Thanks for this!

    Fire things! 
  • Lostpawn
    Lostpawn Posts: 414
    Wow. Thank you. 

    I love this:

    There’s not one man, who’s greater than the sum 

    That’s not a negative thought, I’m positive

    So good!
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    This sort of confirms its about relationships.  Even tho somehow that was in question before?
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • Lostpawn
    Lostpawn Posts: 414
    Also, I’ve been wondering for awhile now why Ed thinks that boys like to “file things”. We don’t. Filing sucks. Except maybe chainsaw blades. 
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    Lostpawn said:
    Wow. Thank you. 

    I love this:

    There’s not one man, who’s greater than the sum 

    That’s not a negative thought, I’m positive

    So good!
    i thought this was 'not one man greater than his son' meaning each generation gets better than the one before.  interesting.
  • Falling Down
    Falling Down Posts: 845
    Now the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter please 

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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    NOW we can discuss!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    dix?
    His eminence has yet to show. 
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  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    The 2nd time he sings “expecting perfection leaves a lot to “endure”. Anyone else hear it different between 1st and 2nd lines? 
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  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,623
    PB11041 said:
    dix?

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  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,037
    Thanks @Sea
    :peace:
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited February 2020
    ^ dick in plural

    *urban def: in chatrooms when dick word not permitted, makes it lighter on the palate, non?
    Post edited by Spunkie on
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    Foriginal Sin said:
    The 2nd time he sings “expecting perfection leaves a lot to “endure”. Anyone else hear it different between 1st and 2nd lines? 
    yes, i think 1st one is Ignore and 2nd one is Endure
  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,744
    Yup

    and I hear file things
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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    What was Ed thinking??? He has no chance of remembering all of these lyrics live! Hahaha! 
  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    ed243421 said:
    Yup

    and I hear file things
    Sounds like file things to me as well. Makes more sense too. 
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,982
    Viagra will be knocking on their doors soon

    hold out for that Cialis $$$


    Love the song.....cmon 3/27
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I was looking for some artistic euphemisms to describe "fire things"... like the rocket blast-off shot in flix, and found this:


    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,558
    this was my first thought

    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    It sounds like file things to me the first time, and fire things the second time.
    Both make sense.  Both make sense in 2 contexts.  
    Whether the theme is climate change, some sort of relationship, or both, that chorus can make sense either as a cause or a reaction.

    The girls wanting to dance can be the cause of trouble in their wantonness, their disregard, or it can be their wanton disregard for finding a solution to the problem at hand.

    The boys wanting to grow their dicks and fix and file/fire things can either be the cause of trouble, or the ill-conceived reaction to it.
    Either way, it speaks to me of male mankind's desire to dominate both the natural world and the various interpersonal connections that people form.
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