I can see it coming, looks like lightning

PJfanFORlife
PJfanFORlife Posts: 138
edited September 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
in my child's eye.....



What do these lyrics mean to you?
Guess I'll trn on music instead...

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  • Cagey
    Cagey Posts: 220
    To me, personally, when I hear the line I think of the future for my daughter, I want to see a fire in her, an ambition, to do sooooo much better than I have, I want the world for her. I don't know what the line actually means within the song, I just like it anyhow.
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    I think of it as a reflection. It's very visual. I imagine Eddie sitting at home with his kid watching tv news about bombs and the war and he can see it reflected in his daughter's eyes. Maybe he's thinking of the future, thoughts about where the war could be headed by the time she's grown up.
    "We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan
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  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    The child knows his father is away fighting in a war
    He also knows that soldiers are getting killed every day
    He has no control over what will happen to his dad

    Lightning keeps striking and he has no control over who it is striking.
  • pearljammonkey
    pearljammonkey Brisbane Posts: 205
    nothing...

    they sound nice but i dont really take lyrics in, just the sound of the way the words are sung. but thats just me, i know a lot of pj freaks who need to know every word & meaning. i guess some songs are good for it but what about these:

    i will walk with my face blood, into your garden of stone?
    i thought the world, turns out the world thought me?
    evacuaaaaation evacuaaaaation evacuaaaaation
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    In the song, I think it means the fear of the mom to tell her child that his dad was killed, if he will be.

    So when I think about it in the context of my life I think about news that could shatter my child's happiness like lightening.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • OneLove
    OneLove Posts: 563
    Restless Soul wrote:
    I think of it as a reflection. It's very visual. I imagine Eddie sitting at home with his kid watching tv news about bombs and the war and he can see it reflected in his daughter's eyes. Maybe he's thinking of the future, thoughts about where the war could be headed by the time she's grown up.


    I have always thought the same thing. I think it is speaking about our choices, and what they will mean to our children's lives.
  • peanuthead
    peanuthead austin tx Posts: 35
    looks like lightning in my childs eye: she sees the lightning in her childs eye because he will follow the same path as his father. join the army reserve and see the same things as the father

    just a thought
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  • aqua ames
    aqua ames Seattle Posts: 94
    It's interesting to see the different interpretationss people have. I have several thoughts on this, but mainly I thought of it this way...

    "I can see it coming" - "it" could be anything negative; trauma, death, an accident, etc., but I think of the war and how it affects people who are in or close to it.

    "looks like lightening in my child's eye" Have you ever seen a little kid get scared when there is a storm? Truly scared? The kind of lightening bolts that make your heart skip a beat, the hair stand up on the back of your neck and you can feel the electricity in the air. A child who is frightened will show it in their eyes- it speaks volumes. Their reaction to a bolt of lightening will show their fear- especially if they haven't experienced a storm before or a really bad one rolls through.
    This same type of fear and reaction that strikes suddenly and unpredictably with war can cause the same reaction- you don't know who will be hit or when. But you know it will happen- that's where "I can see it coming" comes in. You know it's going to happen, you just don't know how bad, when, who, etc.
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  • Cagey
    Cagey Posts: 220
    Oh, I thought the question was what do those lyrics mean to 'you' not what do you think they mean.

    I don't care so.
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    The child is frightened and furious that his father is gone and that he may not be coming back. The mother is seeing the beginning of a rebellion in her son...a rebellion against war, against authority figures...to me it seemed like the beginning of a very angry human being that the child would become.
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  • OmahaJammer
    OmahaJammer Posts: 261
    Restless Soul wrote:
    I think of it as a reflection. It's very visual. I imagine Eddie sitting at home with his kid watching tv news about bombs and the war and he can see it reflected in his daughter's eyes. Maybe he's thinking of the future, thoughts about where the war could be headed by the time she's grown up.



    I think of it exactly as you do.
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  • veritas
    veritas Posts: 31
    PJfanFORlife wrote:
    in my child's eye.....



    What do these lyrics mean to you?


    means you shouldn't have killed those kids
    riot act is best

    cunts watch their bodies
  • veritas
    veritas Posts: 31
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Echols
    riot act is best

    cunts watch their bodies
  • Born2Jam
    Born2Jam Posts: 255
    I still find it funny that he sings "I'm not frantic.." very frantically.
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  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    veritas wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Echols

    I never knew that. I wonder which bits he wrote?
    "We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan
    ---
    London, Brixton, 14 July 1993
    London, Wembley, 1996
    London, Wembley, 18 June 2007
    London, O2, 18 August 2009
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012
    Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
    London, O2, 18 June 2018
    London, O2, 17 July 2018
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 09 June 2019
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 10 June 2019



  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    i think it means that protagonist will not be suprised by anything
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    iamica wrote:
    The child is frightened and furious that his father is gone and that he may not be coming back. The mother is seeing the beginning of a rebellion in her son...a rebellion against war, against authority figures...to me it seemed like the beginning of a very angry human being that the child would become.


    yeah that's kinda what i had in mind as well.
  • mumi
    mumi Posts: 662
    Born2Jam wrote:
    I still find it funny that he sings "I'm not frantic.." very frantically.
    Ok, I think he sings it very franctically because she/he, whatever, is actually frantic..
    I think sometimes in order to understand the meaning of some lyrics or poems, you need to look at the whole picture, and feel, instead of thinking...
    Most of the times, a line on a poem means many things, and thats what makes it so good, you know?
    well, is really hard for me to express all of this in english, I hope you can understand at least some part of it :D
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    y esclavo de lo que habla.
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    contender for most powerful lyric on the new record. The whole song has a sense of urgency, and rage that one can feel in ed's voice and the guitars.

    The line to me means:
    the mother can see the effect the war has had. She can "feel this war on her face" but she can also sense how other family members react. Her child, I take it to be a child not at war, but at home, has been so effected by the fact their father is at war, that the mother can sense the effect of the war just by looking at them.

    I personally feel effected by the war, and this line is chilling. I kind of feel like it. I feel like the war has changed my life, I can feel the effect it has had on me.

    So overall, the line I think refers to the feeling of impending doom this mom must feel, the feeling at any moment her son might be slaughtered. And it refers to the loss of innocence that the children of soldiers must feel. That they have to live with the fact that their father/mother may be killed in a war.

    Ed and damien echols accomplished their goal here. To make the listener feel the pain that family's/loved ones of soldiers must feel
  • pc_loadletter
    pc_loadletter Posts: 164
    veritas wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Echols


    wow, thats awesome. thanks for bringing that to our attention.

    does anyone else think Army Reserve should have went without a chorus, kind of like Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald? i just love stone and mikes guitar work in the song that the chorus just stops the flow of it. either way, amazing song.

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