Anonymous
7/22/2025, 10:10:10 PM No.127133788
Post some songs or poetry that have very heartfelt/interesting themes to them, and maybe talk about what you like. Doesn't have to be deep or esoteric, but story and sounds, or the story you get from the sound is the highlight : ).
Alice is a song about dreaming, searching, being lost, and desire, all feelings that I think people that feel strongly about the emotional experience of music can understand.
Not my number 1 song, but the poem of the knight from Through the Looking glass is one of my favorite poems of all time.
Excerpt before the start:
‘I was coming to that,’ the Knight said. ‘The song really is “A-sitting On A Gate”: and the tune’s my own invention.’
So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck: then, slowly beating time with one hand, and with a faint smile lighting up his gentle foolish face, as if he enjoyed the music of his song, he began.
Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through The Looking-Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday—the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight—the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her—the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet—and the black shadows of the forest behind—all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
‘But the tune isn’t his own invention,’ she said to herself: ‘it’s “I give thee all, I can no more.”’ She stood and listened very attentively, but no tears came into her eyes.
https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/through-the-looking-glass/chapter-8/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOMgrk--48
Alice is a song about dreaming, searching, being lost, and desire, all feelings that I think people that feel strongly about the emotional experience of music can understand.
Not my number 1 song, but the poem of the knight from Through the Looking glass is one of my favorite poems of all time.
Excerpt before the start:
‘I was coming to that,’ the Knight said. ‘The song really is “A-sitting On A Gate”: and the tune’s my own invention.’
So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck: then, slowly beating time with one hand, and with a faint smile lighting up his gentle foolish face, as if he enjoyed the music of his song, he began.
Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through The Looking-Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday—the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight—the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her—the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet—and the black shadows of the forest behind—all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
‘But the tune isn’t his own invention,’ she said to herself: ‘it’s “I give thee all, I can no more.”’ She stood and listened very attentively, but no tears came into her eyes.
https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/through-the-looking-glass/chapter-8/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOMgrk--48