06-26-2016, 10:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2016, 10:47 AM by Eric the Green.)
Song is Over, according to the video's poster, was to be the finale and end credits for Lifehouse. It turned out also to be the prelude. It's line at the end, "excepting one note, pure and easy...." is also the first line of Pure And Easy, as Who Came First followed Who's Next. It could also be quoting the opening song, meaning that the one eternal note persists despite the end of the Lifehouse story.
Recall the documentary on romanticism by Kenneth Clark called The Fallacies of Hope says that the artists of the romantic age (roughly 1790-1848) were "obsessed by this image of movement and escape" of the ocean or "the infinite sea." Song is Over shows that Pete Townshend and his buddies are romantic spirits like Byron, Turner, Wordsworth or Beethoven. The neo-romantic age of our 2T Awakening was expressed most fully in the music of The Who. As Clark said, we left the closed finite world and went to confront the infinite. Pete is a romantic spirit for our time.
Recall the documentary on romanticism by Kenneth Clark called The Fallacies of Hope says that the artists of the romantic age (roughly 1790-1848) were "obsessed by this image of movement and escape" of the ocean or "the infinite sea." Song is Over shows that Pete Townshend and his buddies are romantic spirits like Byron, Turner, Wordsworth or Beethoven. The neo-romantic age of our 2T Awakening was expressed most fully in the music of The Who. As Clark said, we left the closed finite world and went to confront the infinite. Pete is a romantic spirit for our time.