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- Miguelox26
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Re: The General and Monsters
Better, where would we fit it? the chorus smells like horns, maybe Seymour? Maybe so, but who knows.
- AgesOfTheIce
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- Miguelox26
- Rep: 5
Re: The General and Monsters
The blues, Street of dreams is about Seymour's son Dylan, he is recognized by AXl and I wanted him to listen to it as a confession or his version of the events that occurred in the relationship.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: The General and Monsters
. I think he wraps a lot of people together in songs
I always got the feeling some songs examine an emotion from a variety of circumstances.
Like hypothetically, in a song about betrayal, there could be a line where he is the betrayed and then another part where he is the betrayer, and different lines in it might swap between different people or circumstances that share something in common about it all.
So in a way a song is not about Slash or Steph or whoever kinda, but at the same time they are, all his writing is very real, very personal, and sort of inspired or caused directly by the real people in his life and actual events.
So it creates a weird thing where a song may be kinda clearly about something we know happened to him like his breakup with Erin or something but it also doesn't mean every word is directed to Erin or anything like that.
Like in the general I notice how there's the shift from "I swear I won't" to "the hell i won't" - is that the difference between a child frightened of abuse then becoming a teenager and rebelling against abuse, or perhaps it's the difference between an abuser promising to stop then getting angry again in a jeckel and hyde way? , or maybe an abused person becoming abusive themselves later?
It was fun when Axl did the chats that time and talked a little bit about Catcher and Shacklers and stuff to get more info on what's going on with these kinda things.
