Artfuldodger
Senior Member
Anyone remember this song by Peggy Lee from 1969? I've always thought it to be a bit weird. I never could figure out if it was depressing or inspirational. Maybe it's one of them songs that can mean whatever you want it to mean.
The song was based on a short story called Disillusionment by Thomas Mann. I think the character was raised by a preacher. The character grew up where everything was either really good or really bad. There was no in-between.
It shaped his life to expect everything to be of one extreme as well. Men were either really good or extremely wicked. To satisfy himself events had to be of this extremes as well. Even bad things had to be really bad and good things had to be really good.
I wonder how many people live like that or thrive on things being like that? Maybe like the couple that fights all the time. Even the fighting is good if that's all there is.
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The song was based on a short story called Disillusionment by Thomas Mann. I think the character was raised by a preacher. The character grew up where everything was either really good or really bad. There was no in-between.
It shaped his life to expect everything to be of one extreme as well. Men were either really good or extremely wicked. To satisfy himself events had to be of this extremes as well. Even bad things had to be really bad and good things had to be really good.
I wonder how many people live like that or thrive on things being like that? Maybe like the couple that fights all the time. Even the fighting is good if that's all there is.
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