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I believe it's actually "plastic bag" and "ages rag". Also, this song basically says that this present moment is the next ancient civilization, which is a terrifying thought.
Last edited by teenagelightning on 23 Dec 2012, 03:47, edited 1 time in total.
^that's interesting! it would totally fit in with the newspaper theme.
And YES, I'm going to go with mapa sacro continent. The Roman empire! Can you name anything more Ozymandian?
From rereading the Horace Smith poem I have to say that "the city is gone" is actually a really good idea, even though I can't really hear a g sound myself. How about:
"I will the hunter to decipher the stone and what lies under. The city is gone."
I think we've gotten to a good point anyway, I'm sure we'll have made mistakes even in the places we're most sure of.
And yeah I really prefer this to The Diver's Wife which felt a little bit Joanna-by-numbers, this song is completely fucking mad and some of the sections are somewhat incongruous but that only really contributes to what is the freshest sounding song I've heard from anybody in a whiiiile. My thoughts mirror Headless_Caboose's. The lyrics, or what we have of them, are great too, and so touching.
This is how I'm currently playing it, there are three different progressions for three different phrases:
-----C--------Dm----F---- The cause is Ozymandian. -----C----- Dm-----F---- The mapa sacro continent --C-------------C7------ is sanded and bevelled, ----Bb--------------Am---- the land lone and levelled ----D#------Dm------------Am------Bb--- by some unrecorded and powerful hand
(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)
--------Bb----------------Gm------------D#-----------------F----- where all of the twenty-thousand attending your foot fall ----------Bb--------------Gm-------------------D#------------F----- and the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls, ----------Bb---------------------Gm------------ and the records they left are cryptic at best, -----D#-------F----- lost in obsolescence. -----Bb-----------------------Gm------------ The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal ------D#---------F----- with any fluorescence -------------F-------------D#--------Bb---(C)-- where the hand of the master begins and ends.
(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)
-----Bb---- "It's alright," ------C------- and "It's all over now," -----Am-----------Dm---- and boarded the plane, ------------Bb------ his belt unfastened; ----C------------------------------Am---Dm---- the boy was known to show unusual daring. -----------------Bb---- And, called a “boy”, -----C--------------------------Am--------Dm--- this older man confounding Tammany Hall ----------------Bb---- (In whose employ ------C------------------------Am------------Dm--- King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall).
Sorry, but what exactly is "mapa sacro"? It seems like a mix of Spanish and Latin trying to mean "sacred map" — "the sacred map continent"? That sort makes sense, but you'd think if she used a foreign phrase she would use a real one.
sounds like she says " Mapa Sacro content "....the contents of the official map...what we humans at times see as "ours" and it isn't really because the hand of the maker(and or nature) keeps swiping that ours away. we keep building monuments to what we think we have accomplished or the territory we have ordered only to have history, or our own human frailty(our deaths) wipe away all but the barest memory of these events. there are whole massive cultures that have existed right here on this planet that we no longer even have a basic understanding of, we have bits and pieces that we try to decipher but it's gone...look at the Etruscans or the Aztecs or the Babylonians...all that history and culture and learning and monuments...all those lives...and it is just gone...look on my work and despair indeed
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
What great detectives you guys/girls all are! I'm so glad we can look all those things up on the internet. Do you think that's how Joanna (partly) arrived at her lyrics for this wonderful song?
Afaik, in any language with gendered noun endings where "map- sacr-" would mean "official map" (i.e. any Romance language), it'd be mapa sacra. "Mapa sacro" just shouldn't happen.
^it's one of those awful commercial ad-clogged downloads sites with hundreds of strategically positioned "↓DOWNLOAD↓" advertisements that are a nightmare to navigate, but if you pay close attention you should be able to get it alright.