The song goes: a prayer, a petition... a hand full of hopeful words i love her and I always will...
The song is about a very particular type of love letter - the kind that one writes to win someone back... does the love letter have the power equal to a prayer? and who is the prayer addressed to? Could it be that for the lover the the beloved becomes not a god/dess but rather a person to be venerated. I guess it has something to do with the belief that we are two parts of the same soul that can only be completed once the two parts become 'of one flesh..' and the other part of our own souls is to be completed by another.
And the other becomes a symbol for the ideal... the complete... and thus something to be yearned for...
There is ritual in African tradition where someone inflicted with some illness hammers nails into a small sculpture in order to drive out evil spirits into the sculpture - does the love letter have the same function? that it becomes a way of expelling the emotions making these feelings real as external forces... Thus they would become a hand full of hopeful words...
Words that could on their own live and do what they need to do... what they are intended to do...
In Christianity God said quite alot about the word... and that God is the word... one can take this even further if one looks at words as vibrations in relation to super string theory but i don't wanna go on a rant about that now. What i would like to get at is like any form of energy words live on but they might just change form... So the live on...
Anyway I better go...
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in medieval times it was common belief that depression was actually some kind of infection and that your body was seeped in a dark viscous fluid that could be drained away. in a sense emotions are something that can be drained off, by spilling your feelings onto a page it oftens feels like you are purging yourself.
The idea of purging is an interesting one. In early medicine it was believed that people could be cured from mental diseases by the letting of blood. So maybe I should write my love letters in my own blood... That way i could purg myself
ok,one needs to let go of there demons wheter it be selfinflicted or passed on.the big question is how do you get rid of them?
we all have our way of dealling with it, scarification, crying, eatting,words and some just ignore
them and thats where the "canser" starts to grow.
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