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From: Unjay <daisyhed@adelaide.dialix.com.au>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 04:55:12 +0900
Subject: Re: Song of Solomon
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This has got to be one of the most misunderstood tracks of KaTe's career! Yes, it is sensual; and yes, she wants IT; but it's saying so much more...this song encapsulates the whole dilemma of the male/female thing. The fact that she has a lover only goes to underscore her essential loneliness," the song of everyone who walks the path of the solitary heart". Her soul cries out in longing for her lover, but he won't give himself entirely to her- he has his reasons, or excuses, or preoccupations, but she doesn't want any of that, she just wants his " sexuality" as a whole thing; not just sex, but his whole relation to her in the sense of a man in relation to a woman...the trade off, and this is the crucial thing, is that if he does open himself to her on all levels, she will be everything he could ever have dreamed, from mythological archetypes "isolde or marian" to the sweetnes of nature, "the lily of the valley", even to an elemental force- "I'll come in a hurricane for you". Plus she likes to rock- wop bam boom The woman is focussed on love ...the man is focussed on his dreams, ambitions, or whatever...to each of them it is so obvious that their focus is the essential one. To me "The Song of Solomon" captures this dilemma from the woman's point of view so perfectly. Who said it's not a very sensual song??Come on, can't you taste the perfumes of the east wafting out of the speakers when you hear that opening humming?? Unjay, with a silk turban and punkerwallas.