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A friend of mine has a pair of $200 rain boots. That’s, like, $100 per boot. I could be wrong. Math is not my strong suite. For $200 they had better be rocket boots.
Actually, if my friend did wear rocket-boots, she’d probably want them to be rain boots as well. She’d be flying through a lot of clouds and it’s very cold in the sky. She’d definitely want to keep her feet dry. If they got wet at that altitude, especially with the speed-generated wind that comes from flying, she might get frostbite.
Then they’d have to cut off her feet and she wouldn’t be able to wear any sort of boots.
Maybe dry feet are worth $200.
Speaking of which (and that’s all the segue you’re gonna get), does anyone remember the song “White Room” by Cream? I remember having a lot of fun with the wah-wah pedal during that one. Plus the main chord progression is very satisfying. Somebody once said that song reminded him of me. Not sure why. Something to do with the way he couldn’t understand the lyrics.
They do make sense though. “Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes” are the headlights of cars shining on her eyes before dawn as she‘s getting up. Her eyes are gleaming. You’ll see why later.
“Where the shadows run from themselves” is another spectacular description of light. Haven’t you ever seen the shadows and lights from cars moving across a room? That’s one of my earliest memories, growing up in Philly, is watching the shadows run from themselves over and over again as cars went by below my apartment.
“Goodbye windows”-- people complain about that line more than any other in this song, God knows why. I mean, he says several times that he is waiting in a station, in a queue, restless diesels, and so on. “Goodbye windows” is watching the windowsof a train while it slides past.
The general plot of the song, which people also overlook, is that he and his girlfriend wake up before dawn. He’s pretty happy with himself as “dawn light smiles / on you leaving / my contentment” but when they get to the station, she says she doesn’t want anything more to do with him: “You said no strings / could secure you / at the station.” And she leaves on a train. Shocked, the poor guy resolves to wait for her.
Smash-cut to a party at someone’s house and another girl. (“She,” not “you”). They’re fooling around, “Consolation / for an old wound / now forgotten.” In other words, she hit him on the rebound. She was the nicest person in the crowd, but “Yellow tigers / crouched in jungles / in her dark eyes.” This girl doesn’t plan on having a whole lot to do with him either, but the gleam in her eyes is a yellow tiger because she is predatory and because they’re in somebody’s house so the lights are yellow.
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