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. . . in a song that’s very much concerned with the risks and graces of diving headfirst into the unknown.I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
It was the strings of my guitar
Floatsmith, thanks for share this one! I can't remember for sure if I had listened to it way back when, but it's great to visit (or revisit) it now. One thing struck me, looking at the lyrics:.... I flashed onto the first verse in Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia,” from her Hejira (1976):
It was the hexagram of the heavens / It was the strings of my guitar
. . . in a song that’s very much concerned with the risks and graces of diving headfirst into the unknown.
That’s a great question. I wonder if she intended for the reference to be about Hexagram 1, or maybe it was just to the I Ching as a symbol in itself? It’s easy for me to read it in my imagining of the details of the consciousness of the song’s protagonist as being Hexagram 1 — up and leaving one’s relationship and driving solo across the country having visions seems like a whole lot of Yang to me!For me, the I Ching reference seems like a sort of questioning of ... what?
When I read and heard the lyrics, 'it was the hexagram of the heaven,' what came to mind for me is Quan, Creating, Heaven (Hex. 1), since I image six unbroken jet vapor trails in the sky. But the beauty of this song - as with perhaps all music and art - is that we can each make it our own.I wonder if she intended for the reference to be about Hexagram 1, or maybe it was just to the I Ching as a symbol in itself?
His music never seemed to me to convey very much feeling — it usually seemed much more concerned with formalistic and processual possibilities (like letting chance be the editor), ....
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