HI FANS!
First of all sorry for my not very good english...

I guess I'm not the only one who "dreams wide awake" listening to Poets' songs, and not only....
...I don't know......maybe imagining the meeting with the "guys"..or with one of them in particular.... ...( too personal, uh?!)
Anyway, I guess this could be a good "place" where to tell each other our own stories about the Poets and their songs.
So who will be so courageous to be the firs one???

Ops! I forgot the t in "first"...SORRY!...

No one...hmmm.....
Ooook...I'll be the first one (maybe the only one)!


This morning I was in my car, at the traffic-lights (red), listening to "Clevermind"; at a certain moment I imagine myself on a convertible, at the traffic-lights, with "Clevermind" full blast (?) and I singing loudly, when a car comes up by my side (?)...someone lets down the window.... IS MARKO..SINGING WITH ME!!! Just I realized it traffic-lights become green and they (The Poets) start at full speed..and I....pursui them!..Of course....

Me...again!


When I listen to "War" I imagine it placed in a remote age, in one of those medieval fantasy scenaries, where knights fight a battle that seems hopeless against evil's forces.
As representation (in my opinion) of difficult, terrible trials that sometimes life puts on our own way, and often we overcome only with the presence of "someone special"....

Maybe this is not exactly the meaning of the song, but it's what I feel....

When I listen to War, it reminds me more of the modern era than medieval times. And when I listen to Dreaming Wide Awake, I think of fighter aircraft combat.

Wow I would have never gotten that vision out of Dreaming Wide Awake but then everyone has his/her own interpretation.

Dreaming Wide Awake in my mind is a man or a woman so distraught over the death of a loved one that he/she would sell his/her own soul, maybe to the devil, to be with that person, maybe not even in life, but in death. I believe love the strongest emotion in humans, not hate.

My interpretation comes from the feeling that flight, especially in a fighter aircraft, is like dreaming while awake.

I can see where you would get that idea about the song. To me, music can be interpreted in one of two ways. The first is that you could look at the lyrics and mood of the song very analytically, and interpret the song literally or metaphorically. The other is the most effective way for me. That is, I interpret music not analytically, but simply by how it affects me personally - how does it affect my mood? Does it strike any particular memories that are close to me? Does is remind me of a certain time in my life? A particular place I've been to? Does is remind of the first time I heard the song? To me, listening to music that makes me reminisce about something, be it good or bad, is the most effective means of interpreting and ultimately falling in love with a song or a piece of music.

For example, listening to Shania Twain and Keith Urban is very pleasant because these were (and still are) my favorite country singers when I was younger. Because my childhood is very important to me, I associate this music with those memories and that, I believe, is what makes music so enjoyable for me. It seems like other people are like that too, but what do I know?

I understand, and in fact, both methods influenced my interpretation. The lyrics and feeling reminded me of flight.

For some reason it makes me think i'm saving the world

Personally, Dreaming Wide Awake reminds me of Canada. But that's probably just because I listened to that song over and over again on my ski trip to Montreal this past winter.

I have never really been that distraught that I can remember when I would be weeping uncontrollably but of course I have gone to bed feeling extremely sad and feeling very alone and so I think that is sort of what you are saying, yes?

Irregardless of how I am feeling when I go to bed I have my iTouch set on a long playlist of POTF which includes all their songs and put on those earbuds and listen to the songs while falling asleep. It's funny but while I was writing this I remember I have Psychosis, Save Me and some other louder and more rockout POTF songs and I don't know if others fall asleep listening to those but I do.

I like if I wake up in the middle of the night a POTF song is playing. It doesn't matter which one since I love them all for different reasons .

Sleep is a great one to be sure but I don't have to be listening to that particular song, just any POTF song will do .

I hope that answers your question @claudia72!

Thanks for your answers @Snow!
Now I know my words are understandable

You don't see quadruple posts every day.

What?????
What do you mean?

That maybe if no one immediately replies to your first post, there's no need to make another three?

So..what's the problem, dear??
If I've something to say I post it, is there any rule forbids that? I'm sorry, I didn't know it..I apologize...
About my introduction form, it's just a way of joking...nothing else...
At last, please, read better..expecially the dates..it's not "everyday"...
Bye

There's nothing wrong with what Claudia's done, as far as I know. I don't see why anyone would get annoyed over that.

Oh thanks a lot, dear

@beccali : I have to apologize to you just for my misinterpretation of "everyday" in the context...I don't know why but when I woke up this morning, I've been illuminated...

Actually beccali has a point. There is an unwritten forum rule to avoid double posts if you can. Since its unwritten, you could not have know, so don't worry about it.
Yet after you have been here a while you'll notice that most people take great care to avaoid double posting and many even use that when quoting. It makes threads shorter and easier to read and als long as there are not weeks or months gone by since the last post I don't see a reason not to go back and edit the one I've previously made in the same thread.
That being said, I really don't wanna make a big deal of it, just saying that each forum has its own rules and this forum is not so fond of spam (examples: many posts in a row by the same person or starting a new thread for something that has already been discussed before) so the reactions can be kind of harsh to that. Nothing wrong with speaking your mind though. Peace!



Not so much annoyance as merely stating a fact. And I'm just teasing you

Thanks for the informations, I got it.
Just one question: did you read my "famous four posts" and their dates?
Oh another one: how many days do I have to wait to put a new post in the same topic?
Oh oh, again: if I'm wrong Admin and the moderators intervene, right?

Claudia, I don't want to pick a fight with you. I just informed you of a unwritten but existing rule here.
I read the dates. The second post is just an edit of the first one so you could have gone and edited the original post. Maybe you didn't know it was possible? I would have personally put the first three and maybe all four into one post instead of adding another one, but that's just personal preference.
As I said: Don't worry about it. I was just answering your question about rules. Peace.

Oh I totally agree with you, dear! There's no need to pick a fight ! I understood your intention and yes, I didn't know that, I have to see how it works: it's my first time in a forum, so I've to learn so much!!
So peace done

Listening to "All the Way/4 U" I imagine:

A woman who's going through a particularly difficult period, when it seems that everything is going worse and worse; a man is always there with her, he observes her from afar, with no chance to approach her, with no chance to talk to her.
She's strong and faces up to troubles, but sometimes it seems to her she can't go on, that everything is useless, that it isn't worth while.
And then she runs away to come back to that only place, where she has been so happy, some time before; as to seek comfort there, as if that place could help her to buck up, to find strength to go on, although that pain, still so real, so deep, which doesn't let her go...
And that man is always there with her, observing her from afar.
There is where she met him, there she lived with him the happiest moments of her life, and there she lost him...
And now she's trying to go on, to live that life which she loves so much but which has been so cruel, even if he, the love of her life, is gone..forever...
She doesn't know that sense of tranquillity and safety, which she finds each time she comes back to that place, it's just him that gives it to her; he's stayed to watch over her, to protect and comfort her, to make her understand in all the ways that she must go on living, in spite of all that...
And when, at sunset, she goes onto the hill where his grave is located, and she wraps herself in her own arms, with her eyes closed and the wind caressing her face and hair, she doesn't know that heat she feels and gives her comfort and strength, it comes from him, he, who is there with her..on the hill..and he's hugging her...

I guess you'd better use this thread:

What visions the POTF songs produce?

Yeah, maybe you're right!
But, you know, sometimes it's about visions...others it's about "dreaming wide awake"...
That's what happen to me, obviously!
Do you think it's not so clear to other people, here?

...WAIT! Or are you saying that I'm a visionary insane one????
P.S.: Very nice pic!

Alright..seems you feel suited to post them here,I was just pointing out the more fitting topic



Thanks (Actual thanks goes to Marko for his great look!)

@over_maybe: Where did you find that pic?