You can also find concert tickets and details. After all, the two people in the song can get high and engage in various romantic (if that is the word) acts together. But it is perhaps a secondary piece of naughty blasphemy beside the song’s principal, though equally ‘blasphemous’, meaning. For more information on this song or artist, check out SoundCloud or Last.fm. Of course, this is not to say that there is not some pun on the drug’s common name intended in that lingered-over ‘Mary on a’. But of the two theories put forward above, perhaps the ‘sexual’ interpretation makes more sense (if the singer is addressing marijuana in the chorus, how can he tickle a drug internally?). In any case, at present, Tobias Forge does not appear to have offered his own statement about the meaning of ‘Mary on a Cross’, rightly wanting the song to speak for itself, ambiguities and all. Authors have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to go on record stating their text ‘means’ a particular thing.Īnd this is before we get into the realm of accidental meanings, or Freudian interpretations whereby an author (or songwriter) might have unconsciously given voice to some feeling or idea in their work without being conscious that they were doing so. The Ghost on the Shore Lyrics Verse 1 Im just a man, but I know that Im damned All the dead seem to know where I am The tale that began on the night of my birth Will be done in a turn of. The vocalist herself has described Ghost Story as being a revenge song, one in which she’s portraying the role of a scorned lover. That poet might decide to throw readers and critics off the scent by claiming that they meant something else by the words they’d use. Let’s say that a poet wrote a very personal poem about their own sexuality, and someone notices that it’s (probably) autobiographical. Instead, the meaning of a text lies ‘not in its origin but in its destination’. I remember as a boy having dreamed up at clouds a lot and having seen the cloud from both sides now, I suppose I shouldnt really be amazed by anything. Roland Barthes, in his 1967 essay ‘ The Death of the Author’, argued that we must move beyond the notion that the author of a text (a novel, a poem, a play … or even a song?) is some godlike authority on the meaning of that text.
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