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Originally Posted by geodeticman.5
Somebody smart help me here... I am having a hard time reasoning on a metaphor above I am normally so quick to jump in on and relate to and blabberty on..... I don't get the intended irony or wisdom, or play on words.... of
a: Pride cometh before the fall - from Gord's liner notes
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here's the entire quote:
I'M NOT SAYIN'/RIBBON OF DARKNESS
"On Sunday Concert we combined two early songs, partly to save a little time in concert. "I'm Not Sayin'" was probably the better of the two, and "Ribbon Of Darkness" was a #1 country hit for Marty Robbins. "I'm Not Sayin'" is about noncommitment, and a little bit of that sexist thing comes into play here. "Ribbon Of
Darkness" is about the demise of the relationship. The two of them go well together, with the first song being about a man telling a woman it's my way or the highway, and in the second song she's left and he's licking his wounds. Pride cometh before the fall."
isn't excessive pride the tragic flaw we see in so many classic and even modern tales of our time? ie. citizen kane, scarlett o'hara, julius caesar (or maybe it was ambition in his case, I can't recall)
I'm not good at this game...I realize my shallowness is revealed when I confess that I've quite rarely sat and focused on his lyrics in all these years, I'll get there some day
if every song he wrote was about ham and eggs I'd still be intrigued...although his lyrics deserve the highest of praise, it's the melodies, vocal phrasings, chord progressions, arrangements, tempos and guitar fills that I still find most infectious...I realize I'm in the minority