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Re: [L-OT] Lyrics, very OT

2004-10-04 by james page

--- HKC <hkc@...> wrote:

> 
> I have a son who\ufffds rather fond of Oasis and in their
> song the Masterplan there is a line that just
> doesn\ufffdt make any sense to us. And sail them home
> with Acquiesce, On a ship of hope today, 
> 
> What does that mean, why is Acquiesce spelling with
> a capital a. I know what acquiesce means but in that
> particular line there must be some other meaning to
> it.
> 
Wish I had some brilliant interpretation but being a
somgwriter, I've come to accept that lyrics don't
always lend themselves to literal interpretations.
Sometimes they just "sound" beautiful and we have to
"acquiesce" to that being good enough.  JP

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