This ambivalence is underscored by frequent allusions to nausea.”–The text is excerpted from Tim de Lisle’s Lives of the Great Songs. The hero is a callow juvenile, far happier with a book than risking the emotional bruising of relationships. The song’s recurring metaphor is of maritime disaster, and a parallel is drawn between romantic conquest and the allure and peril of the sea. As he becomes more drunk, his impressions of his unfamiliar partner become confused by stray thoughts, fragments of childhood reading and his own faint-hearted aspirations. A nervous seducer sustains his courage with alcohol. “The song explores what it means to be wrecked, in more than one sense of the word. Then I spent about an hour sifting through random yahoo! answers to find a reputable source for the meaning of the song. As I started writing, my mind started wandering… what on earth do these crazy lyrics mean? I’ve included the lyrics from azlyrics here so you can take a look:
I set up with an all Annie Lennox playlist and, of course, A Whiter Shade of Pale linked up first. This morning I was in need of some new music to write to. As you may know (if you’ve been reading my blog since last April), I’m obsessed with anything, everything Titanic and have been since I was little. A Whiter Shade of Pale (the Annie Lennox version) has always been one of my favorite songs.
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