Oklahoma Interview

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by mgikallaroundme

Big difference between having harsh words with someone and directing harsh words AT them. He phrased it just right so you'd interpret everything as "STEVIE AND SHERYL HAD A CAT FIGHT" never assuming he meant Stevie's harsh words with Sheryl meant they had harsh words together and both directed their harsh words at someone else.

Very Machiavellian, but I don't believe a word of it. I believe they plot things, but never to that degree.

Furthermore, I think Mick would have welcomed Sheryl. It would be interesting to see what he has to say about it, but he's been mum since his daughter's accident.

Nico,

Why Lindsey likes to repeat things like that is both amusing and fascinating to me. It's kind of funny, because he knows that we notice to a certain extent because a couple of times during the UTS tour, people would shout out parts of his speech to him before he said it and he would say, "So, you've seen the show."

I don't even know what makes someone tick so that they'd want to say something verbatim like that repeatedly. When I read his interviews, I skip over the stuff he's said before, but I'm not exactly bored by it. I'm kind of intrigued by what makes him do it and when he deviates from form and says something different, I pounce on it. Like I'm getting an extra glimpse inside of a closed room.

As for his lyrics, I don't think he is consistently poetic (or at least he wasn't before UTS, now I think he's pretty consistent, with DYMM being the exception on this album), but from early on he had the power to snatch a phrase that stuck with me, even if it's just "fate takes time" or "memories awaken sorrow from their sleep" or sometimes it's not the phrasing so much. The words are mundane, but he puts them together in a way that expresses unspoken pain. Like with Tusk, when he says "don't say that you love me, just tell me that you want me," as if being loved never kept him from being hurt, or abandoned.

Even when the words are simple, I wonder WHY he is putting two thoughts together and why he keeps doing it, as with the phrase "here comes the night time, looking for a little more. Waiting on the right time, somebody outside the door." I would have written it off in one song, but when he repeats it, I feel it MUST have a meaning (even if it doesn't), a meaning that's deep and closeted. I feel like I'm watching a reel of intermittent flashbacks and trying to piece the plot together when I listen to his words.

So, I DO get wrapped up in his words, even if I shouldn't. Even if I'm just imagining substance that isn't really there. Michele