Re: just a thought

[Phoenix <populuxe@geocities.com>]

This is sort of fascinating -- I always heard the opium reference sort
of the same way I saw it in the Wizard of Oz -- sort of a harmless
reference, and very visually loaded, "...like poppies heavy with seed"
is a beautiful lyric that creates a pretty picture in my head, IMO.  But
then remembering that what awakened Dorothy was "snow...." well, I see
how these suppositions are made.

One more twist on the lyrics of Under Ice -- where she sings about there
being someone moving under the ice, and then the wailing "it's
MEEEEE...." at the end:  picture someone bending over that mirror and
snorting up the little lines, and looking at their reflection in that
mirror, 'under the ice....'

I don't know if I buy any of this, but its interesting to contemplate.

NBE@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> i was just reading about what everybody had to say about 'the ninth
> wave'. or most of it. i think it was just one particular guy but i just
> wanted to ask if anybody else had the same thoughts as i did. i thought
> that the beginning of 'the ninth wave' had huge references to drugs. in
> 'and dream of sheep' she talks about poppy seeds(opium) that take her
> deeper and deeper. and in 'under ice' about how everything is white and
> she's speeding along and her skates are cutting lines in the ice. i
> couldn't help but see someone cutting lines with a razor on a mirror.
> the rest i couldn't really see anything but i do see a whole drug thing
> going on in 'and dream of sheep' and 'under ice'. i hope i'm not alone.
> 
> david