Re: just a thought

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

Phoenix wrote:
> 
> 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

...At first I scoffed at this whole notion, but now I'm starting to
wonder...

--Ron

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