esraa
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Post by esraa on Jun 6, 2011 6:51:32 GMT -5
Cat Stevens has a lot of songs that, despite the simplicity of words , their meanings are hard to find. Yes sometimes lyrics are just a story, but Stevens' songs are very personal... So let's discuss here about the "meanings " . I want to know, what does Sad Lisa means to you ? I think it's a strange song , a sad one.. and i think it's just a story or a 'song' to a very sad and close girl to Cat . [There are some interesting interpretations here : www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/12784/#comment ] |
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Post by tiffany on Jun 6, 2011 10:36:15 GMT -5
Longer Boats is a meaningful song, which features all, including the third verse that says the lines "Raise your mind up and look around, you may see them, yes, looking down, on a lonely asteroid in a vacant void, dying, but not destroyed." That song he sung was obviously to do with spaceships or flying saucers, but it appealed to him in those early days of Tea For The Tillerman which was everyone's favourite album.
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Post by peacock on Jun 6, 2011 10:37:48 GMT -5
I don't think Sad Lisa is about anybody else. I think it's about his inner self - another side to him that he's trying to figure out. Don't we all have one of those?
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Post by JaneB on Jun 6, 2011 12:31:23 GMT -5
On the Majikat DVD he says he wrote it for a real friend but then goes on to say that maybe it has more to do with him than it has to do with Lisa. So, it seems that even he is not sure what it is about...
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Post by sabina on Jun 6, 2011 12:55:01 GMT -5
:)And there I was thinking it was about me!! ;D
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esraa
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Post by esraa on Jun 6, 2011 13:48:52 GMT -5
My mother offered my birthday gifts in advance, and she bought the Majikat dvd (  ) . I had already seen some fragment of the DVD and sometimes he speaks of his songs including Sad Lisa... But I haven't had yet time to watch the DVD, I think I wait for my birthday ..And listen him carefully... But I agree sometimes Cat talks more about him than other people in his song, he hides himself beneath the persons in his songs.. Lady D'Arbanville also is a strange song.. Describe your girlfriend like a dead Lady is strange.. Maybe the lady is the love which is die .. |
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Post by peacock on Jun 6, 2011 14:58:41 GMT -5
Now, SHE was a real person.  |
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Post by sabina on Jun 6, 2011 15:01:01 GMT -5
:)Not ALWAYS so great to be an inspiration for a song then!!! ;D
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esraa
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Post by esraa on Jun 6, 2011 15:25:32 GMT -5
peacockYou say that for which song ,Lady D'Arbanville or Sad Lisa ?
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Post by JaneB on Jun 6, 2011 15:58:12 GMT -5
They were both real people. Lady Lady D'Arbanville is Patty D'Arbanville. Esraa, you may want to look through this Song Discussions section. I'm pretty sure there is a thread on Lady D'Arbanville and I think one for Sad Lisa, too - and many others. I'm sure you will find them very interesting. PS - welcome to Majicat. I can tell you are enjoying it already! |
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Post by esraa on Jun 6, 2011 16:07:28 GMT -5
I know that she's Patti D'Arbanville  But I just said, it's strange to show his girlfriend as a dying woman, I think the lady was a metaphor for their love, which disappeared .. And thank you for your welcome Jane !  |
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Post by tiffany on Jun 7, 2011 11:53:27 GMT -5
I think On The Road To Find Out is a meaningful song, which he talks about his search for his true identity to spiritual quest. The lines in the song are optimistic, especially at the end bit which says "Yes, the answer lies within, so why not take a look now, kick out the devil's sin, pick up, pick up a good book, now" I remember watching an interview of Cat/Yusuf in a documentary, called Imagine, by Alan Yentob, and in it, he said he was just talking about the power of a good book, not the Qur'an. I think he mentioned that he wrote it on purpose, without knowing what the resolution would be then
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esraa
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Post by esraa on Jun 7, 2011 12:07:10 GMT -5
Yes all of Cats songs are very meaningful, but he doesn't give limits to his songs, so his lyrics can mean different things to different people.. And he did very poetic songs even if they look very simple.. I think when you do artistic things, you mustn't give limits to yourself, and to what you want to mean or do.. I believe it's for that reasons that find a meaning to some songs or artworks is hard.Because imagination has no limits |
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Post by aurarisma on Jun 7, 2011 12:10:51 GMT -5
I know that she's Patti D'Arbanville But I just said, it's strange to show his girlfriend as a dying woman, I think the lady was a metaphor for their love, which disappeared .. And thank you for your welcome Jane ! |
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Post by aurarisma on Jun 7, 2011 12:13:09 GMT -5
My mother offered my birthday gifts in advance, and she bought the Majikat dvd ( ) . I had already seen some fragment of the DVD and sometimes he speaks of his songs including Sad Lisa... But I haven't had yet time to watch the DVD, I think I wait for my birthday ..And listen him carefully... But I agree sometimes Cat talks more about him than other people in his song, he hides himself beneath the persons in his songs.. Lady D'Arbanville also is a strange song.. Describe your girlfriend like a dead Lady is strange.. Maybe the lady is the love which is die ..  I think this song is a way that he sees life and love at that moment .. its one of his best written songs .. on depth and a visual that knows no end to the depth!!! I see nothing strange in it but .. well then .... Im a bit out "there" I suppose !  ;D |
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Post by esraa on Jun 7, 2011 12:25:06 GMT -5
not a dying woman but a dead one in a coffin .. I love it!! I so love it and think its one of the greatest stories ever told by depths of soul . and one alot of souls can relate to ... similar to the first cut is the deepest as well, and it always is to everyone .. one knows betrayal for the first time and many other things perhaps ... Lady D'Abanville has another place in my heart , because it's the first song that I listened from Cat .. And i got strange feelings when i listened this one, because i got the feeling that i have already listened this song but no.. After this song i became a huge fan of Cat Stevens because his songs are very attaching.. I knew who was Yusuf Islam but no more and i don't knew Cat Stevens, he was my best meeting of this year ! |
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Post by esraa on Jun 7, 2011 12:29:01 GMT -5
I was at that concert .. gee I date myself .. I think this song is a way that he sees life and love at that moment .. its one of his best written songs .. on depth and a visual that knows no end to the depth!!! I see nothing strange in it but .. well then .... Im a bit out there I suppose ! ;D Lord you was sooooooooooooooo lucky! This show should be magic! |
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Post by sabina on Jun 7, 2011 12:51:59 GMT -5
.HEY aurarisma.......no suppose about it my friend...you are a bit out there!! ;D In the nicest possible way of course!!!! ...and I should know...takes one to know one!!!!lol
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Post by aurarisma on Jun 7, 2011 13:00:20 GMT -5
.HEY aurarisma.......no suppose about it my friend...you are a bit out there!! ;D In the nicest possible way of course!!!! ...and I should know...takes one to know one!!!!lol  x utopia x |
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Post by sabina on Jun 7, 2011 14:22:05 GMT -5
...yes.....hope so...!!x
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) . I had already seen some fragment of the DVD and sometimes he speaks of his songs including Sad Lisa... But I haven't had yet time to watch the DVD, I think I wait for my birthday ..And listen him carefully...
But I just said, it's strange to show his girlfriend as a dying woman, I think the lady was a metaphor for their love, which disappeared ..
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