Place And Its Different Meanings
Weather/ SeasonsTo me there are three songs in Bruces Album The Rising that specifially discuss weather or seasons in relation to people or feelings. "Lonesome Day", "Waitin' on a Sunny Day", and "Futher On Up" all have notions of weather in relation to people. "Lonesome Day" seems to me to be about how when you lose someone or something important you have to just fight throught the pain, to make it through each day; day by day the lonesome ones will pass. "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" also focuses on the loss of someone important. However this song paints a picture of the weather and how being without that person can make it feel like your standing in the middle of a storm. However that storm will come to pass when you are able to find a sunny day. The last song that I bellieve focuses on weather in particular is "Futher On" which tells the story of how the singer is living in the dark, or "in the desert just doin' my time". Bruce describes the negative feelings of just having to move along and fight the feeling of loss until one day "I'll meet you further on up the road". The idea that there is something bright or warm further up the road can help people to live and survive in unfortunate weather of the dark, sad weather you have to trudge though.
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People in Relation to PlacesBruce has three other songs that I believe he uses places in relation to people. "You're Missing", "My City's In Ruins", and "Worlds Apart" all have a connection between a place and some specific person. "Worlds Apart" paint a picture of a person by using different aspects of places to do so. Lines such as "in this dry troubled country you beauty remains" and "We'll let blood build a bridge over maintains draped in Starts" all describe the distance between two people being two different places. The way that the two worlds will come together is through the pain and "war" between the planets need to go through to find common ground. "My City's in Ruins" actually describes a person as a place. Bruce paints a picture of the different aspects of his life as places; music, his neighbors/friends, his room. All aspects of life that seem to have become darker or more painful to be in because of the memories of his lost love. "You're Missing" is the final song that I selected for this section because it literally describes how a person makes a place what it is to them. For example my home wouldn't really be my home if I my family all moved and left me the house. In this song Bruce describes aspects of his home that all remained the same, but it still didn't feel the same because "your missing". The lines that really stuck with me was "Everything is everything, Everything is Everything, But you're missing," which reallt hit me since my cat died and now nothing in my home feels right, it just feels like a piece of the puzzle is missing.
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Depiction of PlacesIn The Rising I chose four songs that describe places in general or how Bruce uses places to describe progress, or emotions.
"The Rising", "Mary's Place", "Paradise", and "Empty Sky" all use place to depict emoitions or the developing of emotions. "Empty Sky" in particular discusses the pain of losing someone important and how when its gone you just feel like you're looking up at "an empty sky", how the empty impression in the bed next to him took away his breath and left him with this empty feeling. In "Paradise" Bruce uses dipictions of place to describe the negative aspects of life, but also the idea that a paradise can be found, how even in the darkest of towns there can be hope, something to wait or work towards to make life better. Bruce uses the comparison between ideal places and the reality of specific places and how some people wish they could leave. The last two songs I chose; "Mary's Place" and "The Rising" give a much more positive aspect to place or weather. In "Mary's Place" we are giving depictions of bad weather but with the idea of just "Let it rain". This hits me specifically because when you are handed bad weather or a rought time you just have to roll with it and learn to live and enjoy it. Even in the bad weather there is going to be a party at "Mary's Place". "The Rising" also gave me the impression that the singer has had several loads that they have had to carry, several burdens holding him down, but the idea that he will "rise" and continue to push through and make progress even with the burdens and the pains he has to suffer he will keep fighting for the deal place to live stop. |