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Darcy Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Ashes and wine

<Is there a chance you may change your mind?

Or are we ashes and wine?

Reduced to ashes and wine Or are we ashes ..?>


That is a part of the song 'Ashes and wine' by a fine frenzy

1) What is the meaning of 'are we ashes and wine'?

2) What is the meaning of 'reduced'?

Thanks in advance..
  

Top answer

1-- No meaning is projected by the words you have quoted. : 'to reduce glass to powder'.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1-- No meaning is projected by the words you have quoted.
  • : 'to reduce glass to powder'.
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1-- No meaning is projected by the words you have quoted.
2-- reduce = to bring to a certain state, condition, arrangement, etc.: 'to reduce glass to powder'.
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I read somewhere that ashes and wine refer to the ashes of the logs burned in a fireplace and the remnants of wine from a night before when everything was warm and good. Its use in this song sooms to ask whether or not her relatioship will continue, or if it is "ashes and wine," the unreversible remnants of a previous time.
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