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Fortiter Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

From a song

Vertigo by U2 writes:

1) (...)The jungle is your head
Can't rule your heart
A feeling so much stronger
Than a thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It can't be bought
Your mind can wander

In your perception "wide" means more "very open" or more "deep/profound", here?
"Though" stands for "also/too"?

2) (...) I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something
I can feel, feel

Could you make "except" more explicit? Does it stand for "but" or something so?

3) (...) I can't stand the beats
I'm asking for the check
The girl with crimson nails (...)

"Check" is the bill?

4) (...) But you give me something
I can feel, feel
(Check it)
(Shots fall)
(She'll make it in yeah)
All this, all of this can be yours

The sentences in parenthesis are whispered. What do they mean? a) I'm giving a look? Give a look? b) She's very pretty? c) She will be able to do that (?)?

Thanks in advance for your patience
  

Top answer

0 Poets and song writers, like painters, can use the medium in abstract and licentious ways 02br 00to shock and/or manipulate their audience. Like light through a prism, sometimes one must 02br 00look and listen from many angles to get the full effect. Your perception is perhaps a piece of 02br 00a larger picture, like a tree in a forest, as good one as the next.

— Lookfar

  • 0 Poets and song writers, like painters, can use the medium in abstract and licentious ways 02br 00to shock and/or manipulate their audience.
  • Like light through a prism, sometimes one must 02br 00look and listen from many angles to get the full effect.
  • Your perception is perhaps a piece of 02br 00a larger picture, like a tree in a forest, as good one as the next.
  • To see the forest, then, is 02br 00it not better to take a walk through it, than to stand still?
  • All I scarcely mean is everyone's 02br 00interpretation is bound to be a little different when it comes to any art form, and U2 is no 02br 00exception.
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0 Poets and song writers, like painters, can use the medium in abstract and licentious ways 02br
00to shock and/or manipulate their audience. Like light through a prism, sometimes one must 02br
00look and listen from many angles to get the full effect. Your perception is perhaps a piece of 02br
00a larger picture, like a tree in a forest, as good one as the
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0 I'm convinced what you wrote on poetry is true. Nontheless the first meaning of the sentence (put aside the following individual interpretation) should be clear. Your expressione "light through a prism" is clear: uses the words in a clear way. Light is one thing, prism is another one and they are well known.... Then I may give a personal interpretation and understand something specific and dif
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0 Hello Fortiter 02br
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00Without contradicting anything that's gone before, here is my effort: 02br
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001) Literally 'very open'; but perhaps with metaphorical implications, e.g. 'far and wide' (later the mind 'wanders'). 02br
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00"Though" stands for " although" , i.e. 'and although your soul can't be bought' (he has restated
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0 Thank you, kind MrP! 02br
00Some little clarification. 02br
00a) what is C20 tradition? 02br
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00(Shots fall) 02br
00(She'll make it in yeah) 02br
00have no meaning for me. Especially the last one. I mean neither with the help of a dictionary I can translate it. In Italian that is something similar to
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0 Oh, sorry: C20 = 'twentieth century'. 02br
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00As for the checking and falling shots and the girl who makes it in ('makes it' = arrives; or has sexual relations; or succeeds), I have to admit, even with the help of a mother tongue, they have no meaning for me either. 02br
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00Maybe another member would have a clue... 02br
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0 "Your eyes are wide" is the best pickup line ever. -Comicbook guy 0-
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0 I'm sorry, but what does "pickup line" mean? 0-
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0 A "pickup line" is a short phrase or sentence used by men to attract a woman's attention and interest. The best pickup laine in the world is reported to be 02br
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00 "This time next year, let's be laughing together." 02br
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