By tracewillow
Credit: Mattclaytonphotography.blogspot.com
“…Paint it over if your world is grey…”
“…I’m at a place where doing what’s right is so wrong…”
Those lyrics may or may not bring on hailstorms or flashing lights but I admire the usage of simple words poetically strung together – revealing not-so-simple thoughts.
Despite David’s lyrics written with such simplicity – (even if someone else wrote them, his conviction in singing them makes them his own) – coupled with our own image of him as a youngster with an innocent baby-faced facade – dare we imagine, or even hope, that he may have inner/hidden meanings in his words? Have we taken them too simplistically?
“Days like these, it’s hard to breathe… I’m gonna take this moment that I’m in right now… Stop the craziness somehow… Leave it all behind me… And no one is gonna find me…”
Hidden meaning? Could he be hinting to us, even during those TOSOD days, that he would be going away? Could we have been just skimming the surface of the words of disillusionment and disenchantment and not detected his hidden message of his real intention of leaving?
There was an interview some time ago when he was asked if he would sing a duet with the Foetus. He replied: “I think he is…(an obvious pause)… busy.” – 5 simple words and a pause – they revealed so much. I applaud his reply. I applaud his ability to so quickly come up with a response which seemed to me, to have multiple meanings. He had unspoken thoughts – I believe he had them. (ME: Sing a duet with the Foetus?! If I were David, I would have bitten my tongue and used some..erm..rather foul language 😛 But that’s just me)
“Wasting time, just getting mindless … Watching your charades… When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from now you’d act the same age …”
POW! – right into the faces of those he thought immature and childish. Does it not sound as if David felt like clobbering somebody who deserved it? For once, he showed us his raw humanness – that which is part of human failings – that which would bring him down from the pedestal of being an angel, a perfect being, where we have idealistically placed him – but, in reality, does him much harm in becoming a true, raw artiste. This song is a rare display of David’s inner genuine emotions. (Those are my favourite lyrics from him, by the way)
But David is politeness itself, not to mention, diplomacy. He is a nice guy and we see him as such.
But we are talking about David the artiste. Passion in artistry must not be suppressed if an artiste wants to be a true artiste, not just musically, also lyrically. He must unleash that rawness which we know is stored in abundance within him. I believe the realisation-process has begun. I feel it with Broken. And I am elated.
“We are the human race and the human race is filled with passion. It is what we stay alive for” – Taken from Dead Poets Society –
David is filled with passion: for his Desire to Live in Music…for his Commitment to his Faith and Mission. We see it in his eyes … we hear it in his voice. My own personal devillish self would like to think of David as not being as “straightforward” or as a “goody-two-shoes” playing a “choir-boy” role, as many of his fans make him out to be, and also as he projects himself to be. And thank goodness for that. My conjecture is: Hidden inside him no doubt exists a determination which demands control and discipline for the sake of assuming a role begetting decency, propriety and decorum; BUT there also lurks a spirit which I think, wants to be free and unconstrained. Perhaps I am wrong but I’d like to think I am not. Just take a closer studied look into those knowing eyes and that crooked smile in the pic below – doesn’t it convey to you many things other than “I’m a Hottie!” ??
Really, David, as a lyricist, has had too many anxieties. To me, he has internalised his thoughts….mitigated much of his raw passion…. and been overly worried about the opinions of those “to whom they may concern”. It is no wonder he has difficulties and stumbling blocks along the way when he writes.
Look at these song titles below – do they have any hidden meanings? Perhaps Yes. And perhaps No. But certainly NOT the way the pics depict. It’s just a lark!
Besides, I like Tom and Jerry. 😀 Have fun!
DON’T RUN AWAY
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NOTHING ELSE BETTER TO DO
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NOTICE ME!
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EVERYTHING AND MORE
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LOVE DON’T HATE
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WAAIIITT!
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I’LL NEVER GO
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HEART FALLS OUT
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TELL ME
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FOREVERMORE
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BROKEN
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EVERYBODY HURTS
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SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW
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PRIDE
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ANGEL
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BEAUTIFUL
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BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
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TRUE COLOURS
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DON’T GIVE UP
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BE STILL MY SOUL