(this is the studio version.. I couldn't find the Woodstock performance with HQ, sorry)
Hey, fellow bloggers...
Today's song is Somebody to Love, by Jefferson Airplane, from the Surrealistic Pillow Album.
I simply love the energy of this song, one of my personal favourites of the band! Grace Slick's powerful interpretation, the composition, so harmonious, so catchy and party like, so contrasting with the lyrics.
I can really relate to the message coneveyed in these lyrics.. I think that like in my case, they reflect a journey towards a downward spiral..
When the truth is found to be lies/And all the joys within you dies. Found her lover doesn't love her like he said he did. All the good memories, all the good feelings she had for this person therefore 'dies' because he lied, he played with her heart. All the happiness she used to feel is replaced by toughts of what she did wrong in the relationship, what were her faults. She can't shake the blues.When the garden flowers, baby, are dead, yes/And your mind is full of red. All positive feelings and thoughts are gone, she feels terribly bad with herself (again with the 'dead/dying' reference, like she feels that they'll never return, unfortunaly) and the only thoughts left are seething ones of hatred (in my case, not towards him, but directed to myself).
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his/But in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is. She feels like she sould go out with someone new, as a retaliation, maybe, to test him, so that she could see if it would hurt him, if he still loves her or not. But she knows, that, he may remind her or him in a way, cushioning the hurt that comes with being alone - your eyes may look like his - but he can never be what he was.
Tears are running, ah, running down your breast/And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest. She comes to realize that her friends.. the ones she depended on to be her real support in this whole mess, the ones she thought would truely love her and never lie.. are more distant than she thought - she feels really blue and she just wanted some support, and nobody seems to help her. She's panicking because she doesn't know what to do and noone will tell her.
Don't you want somebody to love/Don't you need somebody to love/Wouldn't you love somebody to love/You better find somebody to love. She needs somebody to be there for her, someone she can rely on, someone who honestly cares about her. She just wants to get back with him, to feel complete again, to be able to make up her mistakes, to start over again, because he is really important to her.
You better find somebody to love, because it's hard to get through in this world without someone to support you.
P.S: My interpretation of the lyrics are kinda of auto biographical, but based on what I think is the message conveyed by the author.
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane (1966)
When the truth is found to be lies,
and all the joys within you dies.
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love.
When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes
and your mind is full of red.
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love.
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his,
but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is!
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love?
Tears are running ah running down your breast,
and your friends baby they treat you like a guest!
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love!
xoxo, Lucy