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Post by bvanderschaaf9 on Nov 13, 2011 23:32:53 GMT -5
How could he know this new dawn's light Would change his life forever? Set sail to sea but pulled off course By the light of golden treasure
Was he the one causing pain With his careless dreaming? Been afraid Always afraid Of the things he's feeling He could just be gone
He would just sail on He'll just sail on
How can I be lost If I've got nowhere to go? Searched the seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost In remembrance I relive How can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?
These days drift on inside a fog It's thick and suffocating This seeking life outside its hell Inside intoxicating He's run aground Like his life Water's much too shallow Slipping fast Down with the ship Fading in the shadows now A castaway
They've All gone Away
They've gone away
How can I be lost If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost In remembrance I relive And how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?
Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me, why can't I forgive me?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course By the light of golden treasure How could he know this new dawn's light Would change his life forever
How can I be lost If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost In remembrance I relive So how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?
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Post by bvanderschaaf9 on Nov 16, 2011 19:43:41 GMT -5
The lyrics of Metallica's song "The Unforgiven III" connect in several ways to Mary’s situation and the family’s attempt to deal with it in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. The first two lines of the song, “How could he know this new dawn’s light/Would change his life forever,” bring to mind the setting of the play; the entire play takes place over the course of one day, during which the lives of the family members are changed irrevocably due to the resumption of Mary’s morphine addiction. The two lines in the next stanza about always being afraid relate to the mood of the characters because at many instants throughout the play, the family is painfully aware of and trying to avoid acknowledging Mary’s problem. The repetition of "Forgive me" and "Forgive me not" reflects the switching between aggressiveness and reconciliation that the entire family goes through constantly, one extreme example being when Edmund punches Jaime in the face, only to immediately apologize (162). Beyond connecting to the general feelings of the play, the chorus mirrors Mary’s feelings specifically. Mary’s abuse of morphine is in many ways an attempt to get “lost,” something that she is unable to do through socialization because she’s “got nowhere to go.” When she is “lost,” she lives in the past, which could be described as “remembrance” she “relives,” such as when she speaks as if she were still living at the convent (171). Finally, the lines involving fog in the song require little explanation because they connect so strongly to the fog symbolism of the play. The fog of Mary’s addiction is indeed “thick and suffocating” and would aptly be called “intoxicating” because of her inability to fight its pull. Overall, the effects of Mary’s addiction and the addiction itself in Long Day’s Journey into Night are characterized well by Metallica’s “The Unforgiven III.”
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