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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 197 Registered: 10-2006 |
On the strange but wonderful Let your light in the lyric booklet - which has one or two misprints and discrepencies - says Silius Farm but it sure sounds like Robert sings Silas Farm, which might make it a jokey reference to the Brisbane prog rock group of the same name..."though it's not a farm"...Any reason why he might namecheck the band, and does it add anything to the rather enigmatic song; or just whimsy? | ||
| Richard Forster Member Username: Baby_stones Post Number: 4 Registered: 03-2008 |
Silas's Farm is also an entity in the Mark Twain novel, "Huckleberry Finn"... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 212 Registered: 10-2006 |
I read elsewhere that Robert based this particular lyric on an "erotic 19th century narrative poem"...now what would that be, I wonder? Some of you are experts in this field, I'm sure. |