tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post274594957030925832..comments2024-03-14T08:35:41.851-05:00Comments on Pink Floyd Lyrics, Themes & Meanings: Julia DreamUncle Custardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15276948330019749222noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post-21992857695884333442024-03-14T08:35:41.851-05:002024-03-14T08:35:41.851-05:00Amazing job! Amazing job! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post-3683915268736052472022-11-25T16:04:05.630-06:002022-11-25T16:04:05.630-06:00Thank you for this sensitive interpretation of a s...Thank you for this sensitive interpretation of a song I have loved for more than 50 yearsCorinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post-52054807691244734512022-11-25T15:59:23.010-06:002022-11-25T15:59:23.010-06:00Thank you for this sensitive interpretation of a s...Thank you for this sensitive interpretation of a song I have loved for more than 50 yearsCorinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post-77052402274297112522020-12-31T04:17:56.793-06:002020-12-31T04:17:56.793-06:00Nicely saidNicely saidAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481732619711646331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7719716933870811035.post-51626989264604310682016-03-22T15:43:36.753-05:002016-03-22T15:43:36.753-05:00This is a complex song, for one so short and simpl...This is a complex song, for one so short and simple.<br /><br />In part, it's about the feelings of loss and desire that dreams can leave you with. It explores the way dreams can hold more hope and meaning than the waking hours, but also greater terrors. It's a song about the hold dreams can have over us.<br /><br />But mostly, it's a song about looking for love, wherever you can find it, and the fear of not finding it.<br /><br />The first verse is of waking and experiencing the loss of a great love evapourating along with your dream. Dreams can be very real, as can the feelings experienced within them.<br /><br />Sunlight upon the pillow signifies morning. The singer is the "weeping willow"; grieving at the loss of waking from a dream of Julia, a great beauty ("dreamboat") whom he worships in his dream, and suffering the loss of realising the the love was just a dream. He weeps, trying to get back to sleep, to see if he can return to Julia's embrace ("will you let the weeping willow wind his branches round").<br /><br />From then on, every night he hopes to return to Julia in his dreams. She is his "velvet bride"; velvet often being a similie for both night and gentleness. However, dreams are rarely coherent and the dreamer is as likely to be haunted by strangeness (the "scaly armadillo") as be visited by his perfect love.<br /><br />The final verse runs with the unpredictable and often frightening nature of dreams. It also explores their captivating nature and prophetic potential. He is seeking within his dreams, seeking Julia, but this twists into seeking for meaning and answers to life in general. He feels there are answers to be had there, but the questions are as frightening as the potential answers; his dreams have become his master, his obsession, and he wonders if they will unhinge him ("will the misty master break me?"), or whether they will give him the answers he seeks ("will the key unlock my mind?"). The fear of mortality raises its head in the last two lines; the fear of being inexorably pursued by death and confronting that which we all confront eventually. Will he age and die before he finds love, in his dreams, or in his waking hours? He yearns for love, has glimpsed it in his dreams, but still can't find it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com