Thursday, October 08, 2009
Song of the Day Two, The Lonely Farmer
Imagine, if you will, life on a farm. The first rays of dawn shoot over the hilltops, and the fields turn gold with light. A man walks from a humble, yet sturdy shack and stands, hoe in hand, looking out over the crop. He sees, in the morning mist, mirages from his past. A woman cheerfully leading along two small children, twin boys, to pick herbs in the forest. Two young men, learning to mend an oxcart from their father, as their mother hums a melody from within the kitchen. Two adventurers of to seek their fortune, never to return. A pall of death over the land as a woman slips away from this life years before her time. The mist thins and disappears, and small animals frolic in the rows, and birds sing. The lonely farmer collapses, and weeps.
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I didn't think this piece was nearly that depressing...
That's because you didn't know what it's about. Now you do. Your welcome.
Good grief. Somehow I don't think this is what McVaffe intended when he wrote this piece. Sure a lonely farmer, but the collapses and weeps part? It's too cheerful to be a dream sequence and it's not depressing.
It is called The Lonely Farmer. This is what lonely farmers do; collapse and weep.
According to this music it seems the worst sort of sadness he'd be suffering would just be a melancholy sort of mood from time to time. It doesn't sound like he collapses and weeps, he accepts his melancholy state of being and is friendly to the travelers that do occasionaly visit him.
You don't know many lonely farmers, do you?
No I don't, do you? All I know is the music and no offense, but I've probably listened to it more then you have.
Then you have no right to presume what lonely farmers will and will not do when a slightly melancholy tune is played.
Neither do you, you completely ignored my question.
I must presume, though, as it is my holy duty to inform everyone about this farmer. You, however, nedd not concern yourself with such things.
It's need, not nedd. I also presume because that is what we all do when we hear something and picture it (unless there is already a set image that acomponies it). It is not your holy duty to inform everyone about what you see, it's just your perspective.
But it is my unholy duty to tell everyone what to think.
Yes, that much is true.
Thank you.
*sigh*
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