I made a short Flash to illustrate the word palindrome, "Son I am able, she said..." Watch it three times and you will always remember the impossible lyrics and amaze your friends. ): G A B A(bass C♯) D Em D F♯ G. "Son I am able," she said, "though you scare me." You people do realize that something that repeats itself is a cycle, not a palindrome, right? brightness_4 He could be musing over the power he has over life and death, or he could actually _be_ a doctor. One thing that every TMBG fan must agree upon is that the Johns adore words. not like i'm driving a rocking chair now, but Notice the phrase "bulletproof dress" and "medical chart", things related to a paranoid or sick mother. If all the elements match then the string is a palindrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22%E2%80%94All_You_Zombies%E2%80%94%22, This song is about a man who kills his mother for an inheritance, but ends up getting killed himself by his child, hence the theme of the song being "what goes around comes around. The "son of a bitch" portion is meant to be a situational palindrome, as many have suggested, but I think the importance of this exchange is that Mom is perfectly aware of her son's intentions and is basically setting the terms for him. Verse 3: "See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding, see the medical chart with the random zigzag dad palindrome dad i palindrome i" Everything comes full circle, he too must go and his children take the perspective illustrated in the first verse. This is just a determined effort to get the longest palindrome possible in to a song which is how all great lovers of palindromes should behave. refers to "Hova," which is what Jay-Z calls his God Name. --M. Fudd 19:39, 9 Dec 2005 (EST), Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age Developing a Lyrics-First Songwriting Process". HTH, --HearingAid. people destroy the world we live in, but they also kill themselves Som D e day m G other will Em die and I'll g A et the B money G Em A. M D om leans d G own and says, "Em My senti A ments exa B ctly G Em A. *shrug* I dunno. I agree with the interpretor who says that the mother sounds like a pretty nasty customer herself! i palindrome i (i palindrome i) The snake(common symbol for greed/evil) head eating itself represents self destruction. ^_^ Man, when i was a young man Get hold of all the important DSA concepts with the DSA Self Paced Course at a student-friendly price and become industry ready. Then the whole song would make a lot of sense. Elba is the small island on which he lived while in exile. I is still I both forward and backward. To me, the song is about how we inherit destructive tendencies from our forebears and pass them on to our progeny. "son i am able," she said "though you scare me." It starts out with his waiting for his parent to die, and ends with his children waiting for him to die, hence the line dad palindrome dad, as if to say that the parents palindrome, too. something just fell on my head. His mother is saying that she is a bitch for what she wished on her mother and now it's all coming round again...like a pallindrome.Then later in the song the son has grown up and his children say the same things to him. Required fields are marked *. the head on the opposite side (snake head) The ideas presented are supposed to be presented in such a way that they read the same backwards as they do forwards. i was free Then we leave the nest not really looking back at those who nurtured us(other than maybe a heart felt thanks...any more would go against nature.) i palindrome i (manonam) Their heads face each other at the top of the staff. They Might Be Giants - I Palindrome I Chords Learn the song with the online tablature player. To the above: yes, but a valid comparison exists when you call a palindrome something that goes to its end, then comes back to what started it. the head on the opposite side (snake head) i palindrome i He's just looking forward to the day she dies so that he can get his inheritance. I'm not certain how that figures into the larger picture of this song, but I believe a few people have hit in on the head with the literal interpretation. --Nehushtan 11:21, 6 Mar 2006 (CST), This song is a rather obvious reference to Robert A. Heinlein's All You Zombies- a book about a government agency that travels back in time. Copyright: Writer(s): John Flansburgh, John Linnell Lyrics Terms of Use. i palindrome i Alicia Keys got a huge break when Oprah had her perform her debut single "Fallin'" on her show. Something I never did quite get until maybe just now is the line "My sentiments exactly" from the mother in the first verse... could it be that she did the same thing to her mother/father when she was younger? Think about it. man, when i was a young man "Mom leans down and says 'My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch"-The mother feels the same way. i palindrome i i palindrome i (manonam) Take note of the fact that mother 'says,'"(mothers quote)", while the first line does not quote anyone at all. Now, however, that surface is hanging from a clothesline - another way of saying it has hung itself - representing mother/I's new found ability to look inward and reflect. What Kind of Backing Vocals Are Right For Your Song? After the midpoint, the progression reverses: Those will work fine either as verse or chorus progressions. I palindrome i Please Improve this article if you find anything incorrect by clicking on the "Improve Article" button below. C program to Find the Largest Number Among Three Numbers, How to Append a Character to a String in C, C program to sort an array in ascending order, Doubly Linked List | Set 1 (Introduction and Insertion), Implementing a Linked List in Java using Class, Insert a node at a specific position in a linked list, Write Interview He's so selfish, to protect his money, he actually plots to kill his children? i palindrome i (i palindrome i) If you like GeeksforGeeks and would like to contribute, you can also write an article using contribute.geeksforgeeks.org or mail your article to contribute@geeksforgeeks.org. I always thought "my sentiments exactly" was said by the mother meaning that the son WILL get the money... but not until she dies... in an "over my dead body" sense. or perhaps if he's even wondering if they will grow up to off him the way he may have offed his own mother. I palindrome i Lyrics like "and I am a snakehead eating the head on the opposite side" could describe a web. The head-eating action is a reference to the mythical snake that eats its own tail, an action that continues circularly without end.
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