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G)-7-7-7-7-
D)-7-7-7-7-
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D)-12-12-12-12-
A)-12-12-12-12-
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G)-7-7-7-7-
D)-7-7-7-7-
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D)-11-11-11-11-
A)-11-11-11-11-
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There are parts of the song where there is turntable scratching, and towards the end,
when the keyboard comes in, play each note once as a whole notes.
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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JC Average |
#1 by JC Drake at Jun 18, 1970 at 10:39 AM EST |
| And after reading every one's comments fully, ya, suggesting where you can pick up a friendly bible or bible study is kinda MEH... I suggest going to any hotel and opening the dresser drawer or going online. I feel the wandering stars aren't necessarily devils or demons themselves, but that without a path, they will become the prey of such demons, and eventually will cause others pain and grief because of their inflicted misery. I LOVE bikertrash's metaphor. Also, without guidance or a path (which I guess Bob can supply), we won't head toward a destination, but instead wander around the darkness forever, as opposed to when we're not wandering, we'll wind up somewhere, and our path is in the light as opposed to the darkness. I have a discrepency on one of the lines..... THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN THE NEEDLES I NOW TREAD meaning those who have gone before me on this destination-less black wandering ground which is full of misery and pointlessness, the other miserable wandering stars, are like empty husk, outside shells with nothing inside filling them with purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. The singer is "doubling up" inside of herself to take a break from the outside world, which she perceives is sending her this grief... she feels that she will get relief inside of herself, when in fact, the real pain is inside, and she feels that this is "cruel", that she is being "taunted".... but the true relief is after dealing with the pain that is truly a result of perceiving things incorrectly or pursuing the wrong things, all things which can be fixed inside. | |
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mark Badass |
#2 by mark at Aug 4, 1970 at 2:28 PM EST |
| This song is absolutly beautiful. look at this Please could you stay awhile to share my grief For its such a lovely day To have to always feel this way And the time that I will suffer less Is when I never have to wake beautiful... | |
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by fires light Rhythm Player |
#3 by by fires light she cried at Nov 13, 1980 at 8:37 PM EST |
| soooo many songs have religious connotations.... | |
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Professional |
#4 by ♠danny♠ at May 18, 1982 at 7:44 PM EST |
| I'm not really sure what the song means, it confuses me.. I really liked how kimruffelle explained it, because I went threw a stage of being bipolar and no one but a few of my friends realizing it. Even if I'm not exactly sure on what the song means to me, I know it's a beautiful song and that it gives me a comforting yet distant from the world feeling. | |
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Clairvoyant Average |
#5 by Clairvoyant at Oct 24, 1983 at 2:49 AM EST |
| This song has a special meaning to me..... In the summer of 2005, I had a crazy release of inhibitions, followed by a 3 month string of experiences that were intense, drug-speckled, and almost spiritual. I had a roommate burn a CD for me, containing this song on it. I was helping film an indie movie in Downtown Los Angeles about exstasy. I got into a conversation with a homeless man that was near the set, and we got into an amazing conversation. He was telling me that life itself would make the most amazing movie, if only people wouldn't break character all the time, which they do. He wanted to give one of the sheltered crew members an intense experience, and so he crossed Santa Fe St. in Downtown LA in the middle of the night and took a hit off of his crack pipe. This didn't take me out of my ordinary perception of reality as much as did my ride I took right after this. He came back and said "If you really wanna see what life is like on this side of the tracks, take a drive.... drive down 8th st. until you hit wall, go to 4th st. and come back here...." I did just this, happened to be rolling for the first time ever, and my whole drive was serenaded by this amazingly perfect, soul-wrenching, depth-finding song. As William S. Burroughs said, "You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in any other direction. Junk wins by default.” Unless we have a destination or a path set out for us, we become these wandering stars. Some are lucky enough to have relatively mediocre, socially acceptable, and sometimes somewhat fulfilling passtimes and fillers to take up our attention and distract us from finding our life purpose, living fully, and engaging with full fledged passion into what we're here to do. I don't think Ravendaymon's comments are to be scrutinized, but welcomed with a breath of relief. We all have a God.... whether it be Zeus, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, money, sex, women, drugs, apathy, laziness, scientific progress, or what have you. For me though, this song will always represent that bottom one finds when searching for the ultimate experience, but through the eyes of a materialistic world-view, in which crack cocaine would be the rocks upon which a wandering star will wash up. Unending grief, searching for the next fix, which will only bring an illusion of relief. The only time they will suffer less is when they will no longer have to awaken to their present reality. their stomachs cramp, they double up with pain, feeling their insides empty of food and of fulfillment: physical and spiritual. And shortly after I arrived back to the set from my drive, I came across a true monster. A man standing on the corner, wanting to know if I wanted the rock. A man with eyes that held no expression, no life, no end.... only infinitely deep darkness. I could see right past this monster's mask, and I was then so glad that the monsters of our world do wear masks to feed upon their prey. The preying and predating is bad enough, but to see the evils, intentions, and capabilities of these people is even more gut-wrenching and heinous. | |
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Lucifer Average |
#6 by Lucifer at Feb 15, 1985 at 3:32 PM EST |
| its about me. definitely. i mean i know obivously its not but thats me there. in my head. its about me. | |
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Alex Wanna Be |
#7 by Alex Ovari at Oct 18, 1987 at 6:59 AM EST |
| this will always be my all time favorite of their songs, just love organ that sounds like a pulpatating heart beat and the evil harmonica its amazing sound i love it! | |
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Andres Wanna Be |
#8 by Andres Hernandez at Feb 7, 1992 at 5:28 AM EST |
| Dont get me wrong i love this song to death but warning before you listen. You may get very depressed. I was depressed for 2 or 3 weeks and on christmas :[. But what this means by internal darkness obviously means eternal death. Amazing song. One of my favorites. | |
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Jesus Wanna Be |
#9 by Jesus at Aug 13, 1996 at 4:51 PM EST |
| My favorite song on the whole album. Clearly the references are biblical. Although things in the bible can be interpreted so many ways...so I don't know that the meaning is locked into anything because of the reference. I think it is about someone sad/depressed....so much so that the 'wandering stars' (perhaps, as someone said, demons) are ENVIABLE. She's so upset that even an existence like that is more desirable than hers. "Like a husk, from which all that was, now has fled" I think that is how she feels...a husk is them empty void that WAS a full, alive piece of corn. She feels empty, and ueseless....but she wants still to be emptier, like the wandering stars. she doesn't want to be. God, this song is soooooooo beautiful, even though it's very fatalistic. | |
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Freebass Average |
#10 by Freebass Konata at Dec 31, 2003 at 6:15 PM EST |
| When I first heard this song, when she said wandering star, I always thought a lost person more then anything. Perhaps she's just lost, and she's trying to find her way around, and when someone gives a little comfort, she wants them to stay and see if they can help her in anyway. I've honestly never read the bible, but that doesn't mean I'm going to just say that's not true and blah etc. | |
