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- From: hudson@csa3.lbl.gov (ERIC HUDSON)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
- Subject: the power of YEM lyrics
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:18 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- There is an incredible amount of conversation about the "true"
- lyrics to YEM. To expand on a theme already present in this discussion,
- I ask--Must there be "real" lyrics? If the lyrics are different for
- different people at different times, then maybe THAT is the extent of
- their reality. In fact, I think this points out the inherent audacity
- of attributing an absolute meaning to ANY work of art. Art, by nature, must
- be ambiguous on some level. If you eliminate the freedom of interpretation from
- an artistic experience, there isn't much left.
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- Even if we could determine the exact WORDS to YEM, I hope we would still leave
- room for different INTERPRETATIONS of them. Let's be happy with a song that
- leaves PLENTY of room for differences. After all, if we all agreed on
- everything, life would be terribly boring.
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- By the way, the irony of this hasn't escaped me. We are writing reams about
- a line of near-gibberish. Ain't life grand?
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