Hi to everybody,
my favourite L's song is the one reported above;
I have been listening to it for 9 years and I still go on loving it; I think it's her best piece, but I'd like to know from you all:
what do you think she refers to when she says:
1) "A voiceless song in an ageless light"
2) "it's there that my heart is longing for"
3) "All for the love of you"
3) "A painting hangs on an ivy wall"
4) "The eyes declare a truce of trust"
I have an idea, and I find it Great, but I'd like to know your own sensations/perceptions;
Maurizio.

Hello,

this might be a question diffecult to solve, nevertheless I hope someone can help me find the answer. Hopa dies last, after all.

So, this afternoon I spent some time in a shop where they sell Hindu stuff etc. There was some music playing in the background which reminded me ever so much of "The Mystic's Dream". I think the melody was somewhat similar. I asked the shopowner what music that was and he told me it was a Sanskrit musical adaptation of the Shrimad Bhagwad Gita, a sacret Hindu scripture. Unfortunately, I didn't find the particular part which I listened to online, or I could have shown you what resemblence I meant.

Now, my question. The "Mask and Mirror" liner notes talk of Sufi influence and since Sufism is a movement within Islam, I wonder if there are any connections between Hindu and Sufi traditions. Or if the whole is just a crazy coicidence.


Take care,
Anni

Hi!
that song is beautiful!.all her songs are amazing but that one is really good!I agree with you.And other song that I really like is NEVER-ENDING ROAD,I think the lyric is incredible beautiful..
about the lyric of the song you said,I think its very deep the message she wants to transmite..

my best regards for you
emi
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefiro:
Hi to everybody,
my favourite L's song is the one reported above;
I have been listening to it for 9 years and I still go on loving it; I think it's her best piece, but I'd like to know from you all:
what do you think she refers to when she says:
1) "A voiceless song in an ageless light"
2) "it's there that my heart is longing for"
3) "All for the love of you"
3) "A painting hangs on an ivy wall"
4) "The eyes declare a truce of trust"
I have an idea, and I find it Great, but I'd like to know your own sensations/perceptions;
Maurizio.[/QUOTE

quote:

Originally posted by vale:
Getting to the point:
1)*bla*
2) & 3)*bla*
4) & 5)*bla*

Vale, you are so deep! I wish I could think like that!

quote:

Originally posted by Zefiro:
What about you Anna?

Anna? Me Anna? Really?
If you're really asking for my opinion and i'm not dreaming, i've seen your quest and i'm working on it (It's a question that requires deep thought, so i'll post it when ready!)

My words exactly Vale!hekate13@hotmail.com

Preamble [from "The Mask And Mirror" liner notes]:

November 26, 1993 - Idries Shah on Rumi: "the union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love..."

March 20, 1993 - spent a wonderful evening at a "café" in the middle of the desert [...] ...two brothers had created an exotic oasis with their families, palm trees and wheat patches...it felt like a settlement of Eskimos in an expanse of snow. We had been there in daylight and they invited us back to hear their music, but when we returned in the evening, we got lost trying to find our tracks among the many in the sand. We saw some lights ahead; the brothers were on top of their roof waving lanterns, signalling us home.


Getting to the point:

1) I believe the first 6 lines of the songs are mostly descriptive; Loreena paints the background of her spiritual love experience. The "voiceless song" makes me think of a melody played from a distant place, one you can harldy hear, ...or maybe it's just a song in Loreena's mind, like a mysterious call from another dimension (I'm not thinking of a "god" in particular - I'm not tied to any religion, I'm "spiritual" rather than religious), or the memory of the one she loves, who is not with her in that moment.

2) & 3) I think Loreena's heart is longing for love, for that "union of mind and intuition", of rational and instinctive, that a person can reach through love - I like to think she refers to "love for another human being" rather than "mystical love". I like to think the "mystic" of the title is not an hermit isolating himself from the world to reach a deeper knowledge of his god; I imagine it as a person who is "blinded" (which, somehow, is a synonymous of "mystic") by the light of love (both physical and spiritual love = human love).

4) & 5) I always connect the second strophe of the song to the words Loreena wrote in that note, dated March 20, 1993. Lost in her tangled (the reference to the ivy) mental/spiritual journey, some signs intervene to call her back to earth, to reality: I believe the eyes are the ones of the figure in the painting, which she can see only after "extricating" the ivy and the emerald moss (whose eyes are they? Maybe the ones of her beloved one...); the lamps, like the lanterns of the two brothers, are the most evident sign of the finding of a path to follow (= the path of love).

The first strophe in the song refers to a spiritual dimension; the second is the one where the passage from spiritual to material takes place; the third is extremely physical ("I feel you move... every breath is full"). She can imagine embracing her beloved one despite the distance that separates them.

That's my interpretation of the song (sorry for being sooooooo longwinded and prolix... forgive me ).