Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Not About YouTube Videos


I was going to take and post about a YouTube video, but I was distracted by a song I heard. Coincidentally it is also available as a YouTube video.


"Kreuzberg"

There is a wall that runs right through me
Just like the city, I will never be joined
What is this love? Why can I never hold it?
Did it really run out in the strangers' bedrooms?

I
I have decided
At twenty-five
Something must change

Saturday night in East Berlin
We took the U-Bahn to the East Side Gallery
I was sure I'd found love with this one lying with me
Crying again in the old bahnhof

I
I have decided
At twenty-five
That something must change

After sex
The bitter taste
Been fooled again
The search continues

 I honestly didn't know what the lyrics were until I looked them up. I usually don't pay much attention to the lyrics of a song; I have a scope of listening very much akin to my scope of understanding--I set myself outside of the picture to see it objectively. Even when I do deconstruct a song, I typically do so from the viewpoint of the way it interacts harmonically, rather than listening to the poetry.

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