Song: "Solomon's Song"
Feb. 24th, 2006 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bnewmanIt's been one of those weeks... inspirational... transformative... challenging...
I haven't gotten a lick of homework done.
If you're familiar with my repertoire, you know that I'm in the habit of writing songs that can be about more than one thing, depending on how you look at them. And if you're familiar with the Hebrew Bible, you know that I'm not the first to do such a thing. A far better poet has come before me, with a song whose rich ambiguity has puzzled lovers, sages and mystics since time immemorial — all that I can do is comment.
I didn't have Jonathan Turner's "Second-Hand Songs" in mind for the tune when I began writing this, but the lyrics insisted, and I had to admit that they were right.
To all my Jewish friends, shabbat shalom, and to all my friends at censored, have a wonderful censored. ;-)
I haven't gotten a lick of homework done.
If you're familiar with my repertoire, you know that I'm in the habit of writing songs that can be about more than one thing, depending on how you look at them. And if you're familiar with the Hebrew Bible, you know that I'm not the first to do such a thing. A far better poet has come before me, with a song whose rich ambiguity has puzzled lovers, sages and mystics since time immemorial — all that I can do is comment.
I didn't have Jonathan Turner's "Second-Hand Songs" in mind for the tune when I began writing this, but the lyrics insisted, and I had to admit that they were right.
To all my Jewish friends, shabbat shalom, and to all my friends at censored, have a wonderful censored. ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-27 06:47 pm (UTC)And THAT is why I object in principle to the "translations" of the Song of Songs that give the interpretation without the literal meaning.