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Originally Posted by bibby1044
Dave has his writing moments were his genius peaks out. Squirm lyrics came to mind when reading some of these posts. It seems when he gets on a topic and fully focus’s on it we get the good Dave. The bad Dave is when he’s free wheeling kid songs and present cultural or political topics when he goes downhill. Aka be yourself, plastic girl, etc. Virginia in the rain feels like a song he fully focused on. Why I am we know he did and got a great result. Where as some of his other recent ones we either get a good line or two and decent chorus but music is boring. Or we get great music and shit lyrical topics. It’s when he puts them all together and doesn’t accept the song for what it initially is and fleshes it out we get the Dave we all came up loving.
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Cry Freedom, Don't Drink The Water, Last Stop, Minarets, etc etc all political/political in nature, but absolutely amazing songs.
It is when he is political with zero nuance that his songs take a dive. Dive In, for example. He spells everything out with his lyrics. I know exactly what he is talking about without any thought. On the other hand, Out of My Hands could have been a good song, but Dave decided to play piano on the track - I personally do not like dave's music on the piano.
Here are lines from DDTW:
Come out, come out, no use in hiding
Come now, come now, can you not see?
There's no place here, what were you expecting?
No room for both, just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes, I will call this home
This is perfect writing, to me. He is clearly writing about the conquest of one people over another (Spanish vs. Aztecs, for example) but he doesn't reference Cortés or Montezuma. He doesn't speak in direct language. With his nuance, he speaks quite powerfully:
What's that you say?
Your father's spirit still lives in this place
Well, I will silence you
*** And to add - DDTW has to be one of Dave's easiest guitar parts. He can do so much with so little. He has the potential to be incredible. I happen to believe he will be great again - but I don't know if it will come now or sometime like in his 60's when he writes solo.