From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #68 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, July 10 1998 Volume 02 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- veda hille [Kerstin Kuffer ] Re: veda hille [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 15:18:49 +0200 From: Kerstin Kuffer Subject: veda hille Dear jeF and to all the fans I´m very glad that there are somewhere people who also think about vedas lyrics and intentions. Although it´s very difficult for me to get the meanings and understand everything of veda´s songs (I´m from Germany) I had a few ideas: Bellyfish, I guess is a very sad and aggressive song about a relationship to a man. Perhaps in her (or someone elses) childhood, when she was raped?! Bed in a hotel bed in a field You lay on him now you make him also "Hook in my leg, sweat it out, sweat it out". I´m of course not sure, but I think this awful experience (she had?)is also the theme of the song "Seasoned": "When he slept around me,as easy as a fall,... My hope is hidden in the frenzy of his body" Could anybody think of the meaning of "an eye for a spine on the side of the road, an eye for a spine, sweat it out, sweat it out (Bellyfish)? I had also the chance to see veda in Nürnberg and Munich/Germany. She supported Holly Cole and played at about 30minutes without her band. It was really fascinating and unbelievable. Her last song was one of my favourites: the Walt Whitman one: "Darest thou now O Soul Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow" Afterwards she signed all my CD Covers and talked a few minutes with me - - it was great. Another question: Does anybody know what notes the sides of her tenor-guitar are (I guess: E A D G ???) Bye, Sabrina ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 18:04:41 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: veda hille Kerstin Kuffer wrote: >I´m very glad that there are somewhere people who also think about vedas >lyrics and intentions. Although it´s very difficult for me to get the >meanings and understand everything of veda´s songs (I´m from Germany) I >had a few ideas: Bellyfish, I guess is a very sad and aggressive song >about a relationship to a man. Perhaps in her (or someone elses) >childhood, when she was raped?! I think it's a mistake to try to pin Veda's lyrics down to a specific literal meaning--I think they are deliberately elusive as far as meanings go because you should be able to get the emotional allusions rather than the literal meanings. I also don't think Bellyfish is that totally negative a song--I don't think it's necessarily about something as awful as rape, but more about those bad and rather frantic emotional/physical relationships. >Bed in a hotel bed in a field You lay on him now you make him >also "Hook in my leg, sweat it out, sweat it out". >I´m of course not sure, but I think this awful experience (she had?)is >also the theme of the song "Seasoned": "When he slept around me,as easy >as a fall,... My hope is hidden in the frenzy of his body" I don't see this one as negative at all--more as a growing up song, as a "seasoning". >Could anybody think of the meaning of "an eye for a spine on the side of >the road, an eye for a spine, sweat it out, sweat it out (Bellyfish)? I suspect it doesn't have a direct literal meaning. It sounds good and it sounds emotionally intense. I suspect that's enough. I'm willing to be proven wrong, though. - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #68 *******************************