Schwarze Katz
12-02-2002, 10:50 PM
The more I reread, the more I like this idea and I want to get it out, some I'm reposting some stuff here.
POV = point of view
Parabol is a prologue to Parabola, each a piece of a single story, or rather a reflection.
Read the lyrics to Parabol closely as a narrative. The first half would be the thoughts of a mother toward her newborn child. "So familiar" because it was in her for 9 months, now it is "this reality here" in her arms. The new child is "wide eyed," hopeful, and "hopefully wild."
Then, the second half of Parabol is reflection on being born, the mother thinking through it as a newborn might. We don't remember what came before our birth (the "precious moment" of Parabol, not necessarily the same in Parabola). She reflects further, a child's unwillingness to rush the experience of birth, trying to remember it, or perhaps trying to retain its secure place inside the womb. "Hold on, stay inside."
The reflection then moves on into Parabola, when the eternal feeling is verifiec, adding a spiritual element. The "holy experience/reality/event" is birth. "Alive, I" am born. Out of the womb, being held by the mother reminds the child that he/she is not alone.
Twirling, spinning, weaving - aren't these visual words for the movements of babies and children?
"This chance to be alive and breathing" - Birth! Life!
The mother is obviously older than the newborn, and this is a reminder of growing and aging, which always lead to dying. Mortality. Don't dwell on it, live in this moment, don't forget what birth has taught you, "we are eternal."
It's absolutely beautiful.
POV = point of view
Parabol is a prologue to Parabola, each a piece of a single story, or rather a reflection.
Read the lyrics to Parabol closely as a narrative. The first half would be the thoughts of a mother toward her newborn child. "So familiar" because it was in her for 9 months, now it is "this reality here" in her arms. The new child is "wide eyed," hopeful, and "hopefully wild."
Then, the second half of Parabol is reflection on being born, the mother thinking through it as a newborn might. We don't remember what came before our birth (the "precious moment" of Parabol, not necessarily the same in Parabola). She reflects further, a child's unwillingness to rush the experience of birth, trying to remember it, or perhaps trying to retain its secure place inside the womb. "Hold on, stay inside."
The reflection then moves on into Parabola, when the eternal feeling is verifiec, adding a spiritual element. The "holy experience/reality/event" is birth. "Alive, I" am born. Out of the womb, being held by the mother reminds the child that he/she is not alone.
Twirling, spinning, weaving - aren't these visual words for the movements of babies and children?
"This chance to be alive and breathing" - Birth! Life!
The mother is obviously older than the newborn, and this is a reminder of growing and aging, which always lead to dying. Mortality. Don't dwell on it, live in this moment, don't forget what birth has taught you, "we are eternal."
It's absolutely beautiful.