Friday, May 4, 2007

The Precise Nature of "You"

OK, this is my last post focusing on music for a while. I hope.

As I was walking to lab last night I was listening to the latest Patrick Wolf CD, The Magic Position, specifically the title track, which is a love song.

It's one of those love songs that are sung in the second person (addressing some off-screen "you") and I experienced a sudden paradigm shift.

See, usually, I listen to these songs allied with the singer, feeling his yearning and expression towards that other "you." BUT this time, for some reason, I felt as if he was singing to me directly. That I was the "you"!

It was such a strange switch! I laughed, and felt a little flattered, and it was really quite strange and nice.




feeling like the object of patrick wolf's affection on a brisk spring night on the way to astro lab: ****

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