[Chris Tanz]

Great read.

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Good write up.
On Gord's lyrics - " What’s really great is that there are these phrases that leap out and you grab on to them, despite the fact you don’t know what they mean to him or why they’re there, you develop your own relationship with them. You react even to the punctuation or the meter of the words in a very visceral way"

IMO, the best possible description of Gord's writing style, which is equivalent to try to describe something indescribable.

I thought that was an excellent description as well. It made me think of two lines from Something On "I saw you standing at the station, long after the train came in" and "... the sweep of a mapping pioneer".

As to the first, I had just read Timothy Findley's The Wars when Phantom Power came out. And that line reminded me of Robert Ross standing in the train station in Kingston before being deployed to fight. So that is now my personal forever-connection with that line.

As to the second, a good friend of mine was studying Geographic Information Systems when PP came out. So we immediately associated that line with him, and he has since been referred to as a mapping pioneer among that group of friends, giving us a communal forever-connection with that line.

And finally, regarding the visceral reaction to the meter -- I think about my comments in the Ocean Next thread. There is now no other proper way to phrase "I'm so relaxed; little wistful perhaps" except the way Gord sings it, even though the first reaction was, no that shouldn't be right.

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