Re: TYG Lyrics

[zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> At 10:33 PM 10/25/97 +0000, zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >I have another version of this:
> >	Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
> >	On the wings of maybe, downing birds of prey
> >
> >Does this make sense to you PV? Downing birds, as in
> >hunting them down and catching them?
> 
> No - not in this context.  Why are stars hunting birds?
> And if you mean the subject to be an understood, i.e. the singer, that
> makes no connection with the rest of the lyric.
> 

I have always seen this in context with the later line:
	But as the eagle leaves the nest
	It got so far to go

He's referring to an eagle without naming it, then makes a reference
to it later in the song. But as always I'm probably *way* of target ;)

Later
Ah-keep-a-ramblin'
Espen G.
ISU