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Discussion Groups / British English / July 2005Don't give up
How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America? | How do you understand this song? | | Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to | those who emigrated) to America? Never heard it URL please.  SignatureDave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> In Case of Emergency Store the word "ICE" in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". http://tinyurl.com/79lz9 Dave Fawthrop a écrit : > | How do you understand this song? > | Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to > | those who emigrated) to America? > Never heard it URL please. Here you are: http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5 > Dave Fawthrop a écrit : > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5 It's no longer there. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Einde O'Callaghan a écrit : >> Here you are: >> http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5 > It's no longer there. Are you sure? > Regards, Einde O'Callaghan > Einde O'Callaghan a écrit : > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Are you sure? When I clicked last time I got an expiry notice, but this time it worked. Regards, einde O'callaghan > How do you understand this song? > > Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to > those who emigrated) to America? Eh. It's got nothing to do with America. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush are British. I heard it first when I was unemployed so the words "For every job so many men" were particularly poignant so I have always interpreted it as a song about a man who is downhearted at losing his job or his business failing, perhaps during a recession, and his wife/lover's response. Nick Wagg a écrit : >>How do you understand this song? >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > is downhearted at losing his job or his business failing, > perhaps during a recession, and his wife/lover's response. That's how I interpreted the song as well. But a friend of mine has always pretended it had something to do with America. Beautiful song anyhow. > Nick Wagg a écrit : > > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > mine has always pretended it had something to do with > America. Beautiful song anyhow. From <URL:http://www.deltaforce.net/~jnu/pg/interviews/mus86.html> 'MUSICIAN: Tell me about your duet with Kate Bush on "Don't Give Up". GABRIEL: I started off on that song singing both parts myself, but I thought it would work better with a man and a woman singing, so I changed the lyrics around. At one point I tried to work it up in a gospel/country style, and there are still echoes of that approach in Richard Tee's piano-playing. MUSICIAN: As in many of the songs on the album, the lyrics can be interpreted either personally or more abstractly. Was that deliberate? GABRIEL: Yes, it was conscious. I was trying to put a persoanl slant against another backdrop. In "Don't Give Up" the lyrics were inspired by two things: one was a TV program on how unemployment has affected family life, and the other was a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange during the Dust Bowl Depression. The basic idea is that handling failure is one of the hardest things we have to learn to do.' Rob. SignatureRob Poole, Computer Technician, ESM, Aston Uni R.H.Poole@aston.ac.uk <http://www.aston.ac.uk/~poolerh> Rob Poole a écrit : > From <URL:http://www.deltaforce.net/~jnu/pg/interviews/mus86.html> > > 'MUSICIAN: Tell me about your duet with Kate Bush on "Don't > Give Up". Thanks for the link. > How do you understand this song? I don't, I turn it off like all these pseudo-romantic duos that bore the pants of anyone with sense. John of Aix a exprimé avec précision : >> How do you understand this song? > > I don't, I turn it off like all these pseudo-romantic duos that bore the > pants of anyone with sense. ?? > John of Aix a exprimé avec précision : > >> How do you understand this song? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > ?? From the context, I think he meant 'duets', but I could be wrong. It's hard to tell sometimes. Giles >> John of Aix a exprimé avec précision : >> >> How do you understand this song? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >From the context, I think he meant 'duets', but I could be wrong. >It's hard to tell sometimes. Also it I think "off" was meant in place of "of" in "bore the pants of anyone". SignaturePeter Duncanson UK (posting from u.c.l.e) Giles Todd a écrit : >>John of Aix a exprimé avec précision : >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >>?? > From the context, I think he meant 'duets', but I could be wrong. > It's hard to tell sometimes. Must be the influence of French... >> John of Aix a exprimé avec précision : >>>> How do you understand this song? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > From the context, I think he meant 'duets', but I could be wrong. > It's hard to tell sometimes. Duos do duets so it was perfectly understandable if not particularly well put. How does anyone with sense know that his or her pants are bored? Do they start talking amongst themselves, or fiddling with their pens or what? Fogey At 12:32:37 on Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Blue Fogey <zen79148@zen.co.uk> wrote in <1121801557.900259.218700@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>: >How does anyone with sense know that his or her pants are bored? Do >they start talking amongst themselves, or fiddling with their pens or >what? I had to read that twice... SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) > How does anyone with sense know that his or her pants are bored? Do > they start talking amongst themselves, or fiddling with their pens or > what? Oh dear. |
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