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Post by maddogfagin on May 7, 2022 16:18:50 GMT
Hello. I was looking back at the lyrics of certain songs on SLOB and i really wonder what "Little Flower Girl" is about ? Somebody told me today it wa sinspired by a famous painitng but µi don't know more... Some lines are a bit weird... as if the narrator liked little girls a bit too much... Down at the church the flower girl sits. Legs innocent, apart. I make the picture puzzle fit to start your heart. Painted sister stopped beside. A word upon her saintly lip. Perhaps admonishing the child inside the open slip. I don't know where she might go when she runs home at night. It's for the best: I wouldn't rest when I turned out the light. No little flower girl singing in my troubled dream just an old man's model in a pose from a magazine. I have touched that face a dozen times before. And I have let my pencil run. Laid down washes on a foreign shore, under a hot and foreign sun. My best sable brushes drift the soft inside of her arm. Her chin I tilt, her breasts I lift. I mean no harm. I close the door. She is no more until the next appointed hour. Northeastern light push back the night: painted promises in store. No little flower girl singing in my troubled dream just an old man's model in a pose from a magazine. Down at the church my flower girl sits. Legs innocent, apart. I make the picture puzzle fit to start your heart. My golden sable brushes drift the soft inside of her arm. Her chin I tilt, her breasts I lift. I mean no harm. I mean no harm. I mean……
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Post by tullabye on Aug 31, 2022 17:25:49 GMT
Hello. I was looking back at the lyrics of certain songs on SLOB and i really wonder what "Little Flower Girl" is about ? Somebody told me today it wa sinspired by a famous painitng but µi don't know more... Some lines are a bit weird... as if the narrator liked little girls a bit too much... Sorry that I’m late to the party on this one but it is really quite easy to follow once you get the main gist. The song was inspired by the famous painting of the same name (I believe). The song takes the painter’s perspective and quite simply talks about the process of painting that picture. The painter supposedly uses a photo out of the magazine of the little flower girl sitting on the church steps (I imagine there’s a nun saying something to the girl in the painting). Some of the lyrics might be construed differently if not a painter. Some very powerful lyrics about starting and stopping the painting process, turning off the lights and waiting for the perfect north eastern light to begin again. However the best lyrics are saved for retouching the face a dozen times, laying down washes of color on the canvas under the sun, and using his best sable brushes for the softness needed in her arm. When he tilts her chin or lifts her breasts in the painting for effect he means no harm.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 12, 2023 1:25:39 GMT
ian anderson SLOB 28 minutes 38 seconds
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 29, 2023 11:18:08 GMT
Ian Anderson: Wow... This Album is Way Better than I thought!
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JT_fan1994
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Post by JT_fan1994 on Apr 10, 2024 1:58:52 GMT
The entire album (along with “Rupi's Dance”) is included on this compilation of Ian Anderson solo songs:
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