Monday, November 3, 2008
We Set Controls To The Heart Of The Sun
The main theme of the lyrics I chose is the pressures of growing old. The song is told from the perspective of an aging rockstar who is feeling to old to still be touring. He is constantly seeing his music scene gain a younger and younger crowd while he continues to grow older. He is suffering an existential crisis wondering how he got so old, where did all of his time go and what happened to all his friends. The is represented by the line in the song "We set control for the heart of the sun, one of the ways that we show are age". This line at first almost seems like a drug reference but to someone who knows their rock and roll history know that line is a reference to a Pink Floyd song. The subtext behind the line is that the narrator feels old for growing up in the time of Pink Floyd while today's generation is growing up listening to him.
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I personally don't see how "We set control for the heart of the sun, one of the ways that we show are age" is a drug reference. Can you clarify?
what, specifically is the Pink Floyd reference ... please spell it out for those of us who are not up to snuff on our Pink Floyd-ness
Lyrics would have helped to back up everything youre saying about all of the pressures of growing old. And why he has these certain thoughts.
I don't know the reference but "We set control for the heart of the sun, one of the ways that we show our/are age"...
still so early set in the song, talking about partying at a house- almost makes me think of setting one's mind for the lime-light, as a young person drawn to the fame. While the sun makes one think of wrinkles and growing old... again it reminds me of "a new day" or a birth.
@Wiedbrauk: Set Controls for the Heart of the Sun was a song from Pink Floyd's second album. It's a fairly obscure Floyd song, seeing as its not on The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon.
Watch pink Floyd live at Pompeii. Nuff said
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