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Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand
#5711483 - 06/04/06 02:44 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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what d u guys think is the true meaning of this song?
i think what hes trying to say is that nothing lasts forever. what do you guys think?
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: l33tflip1]
#5711548 - 06/04/06 03:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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This is one of my favorite Hendrix songs but its been awhile since I've heard it though. What I can tell from the song; I think it means everything can change and nothing is permanent. It's not only good things can go bad, but bad things can turn good. Get what I mean?
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: Osker246]
#5711597 - 06/04/06 03:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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yea i think that too, where if something good happens to you it will eventually come to an end. reffering to "melts into the sea, eventually."
this is what i think about the
"castles made of sand melts into the sea eventually"
castles mean things like a job, relationships, marriage. and sand are the base of whatever the castle represents. and that "melts into the sea eventually" means it will come to an end or change someday. teh things i dont get is the examples he uses like the last part where he talks about the girl who killed herself. and the golden winged ship. and the first part about the alcoholic.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: l33tflip1]
#5711657 - 06/04/06 03:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah I totaly agree with you. I didnt write this so Im not taking credit for this. I pulled it off www.songmeanings.net but this guy has it pretty much has it nailed on the spot.
"This song is basically composed of three narratives of life situations. The recurring theme throughout this song is slight variations of the line: "castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually." The overall message of this song seems to be that love, dreams, happiness and even life itself cannot be depended on to last. The first verse of the song depicts an argument between a man and a woman. The woman is angry at the man because he is drunk on her doorstep, apparently as he had been many times before. The argument progresses until she slams the door in his face sending him away with harsh words, calling him a "disgrace." As this scene breaks, the people around watch and "drool" at the chance to gossip about the man and woman whose problems make them feel more comfortable and content with their own lives. In desperation, anger, and remorse, the man calls to his love. He does not seem to understand how they have come to this point when the love that they had once seemed so wonderful. Calling her "mad," he does not understand how she could throw away and give up on the love they had. The man cannot see how his drunkenness destroyed their love. He cries at her door and "his tears fall and burn the garden green." The garden green symbolizes the thriving, beautiful love they once had for each other, the love that has been destroyed by his drinking problem. The garden being burned by his tears symbolizes the final end to their love as the man cries outside her door, never to experience the wonderful love he had with this woman again. In the recurring line, "castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually," the castle signifies the love that this woman and man had for each other. Sadly, this love was not lasting but was made of sand, therefore washed into the sea by storms in their lives (the man's drinking problem). Their love was not built up to be something permanent but was composed of something as unstable as sand. Possibly Jimi Hendrix is saying that true, lasting love is, in general, a castle of sand, something that is unreachable and intangible in this unpredictable life.
Much similar in idea to the previous verse, the second verse tells the story of a young Indian brave. Growing up this boy played war games with his friends dreaming that someday he would become the great warrior he pretended to be. As "many moons," meaning the years, passed by, the boy continues to dream, strongly believing in the possibility of his dream becoming a reality. The night before his dream could finally come true, his tribe is attacked, and he is killed in his sleep. This verse is also followed by "castles made of sand melts into the sea eventually." The castle made of sand is this Indian boy's dream to become a great warrior, but his dream slipped away never to be realized. This story seems to illustrate the unfairness and unpredictability of life, saying that dreams cannot be held onto to tightly because they easily slip away.
Where the first two verses spoke of intangible things such as love and dreams, the third verse tells of a life slipping away. The story is of a girl who is mute and crippled for life. The words "whose heart was a frown" means that she had no joy in life, only sadness in her heart. She does not want to go on with her life anymore because she feels that she has nothing worth living for. Planning to commit suicide, the girl rolls her wheelchair to the edge of the shore. Smiling, she says to her legs, "You won't hurt me no more." For a moment she feels happy because she believes that she will finally be free from the pain in her life. Then the song says that she suddenly sees a "golden winged ship" passing her. The golden winged ship seems to symbolizes the vessel which is coming to take her out of this life, possibly to a better place, such as heaven. The song goes on to say that the ship "didn't really have to stop, it just kept on going." On first impression, this seems to be saying that the girl did not end up committing suicide. Looking at the words from this perspective, the golden winged ship can be interpreted as her wish to die, but this wish ,for some unknown reason, could not be fulfilled. The ship to take her out of her misery to a better place just passed her by. With this interpretation the castle of sand is her dream to commit suicide in order to be free from her pain, but this dream slipped away from her. This golden ship passing her without even stopping can also be interpreted that this girl was so ready for death and eager to leave this life, that the ship to take her did not even have to stop. She left so quickly that the ship just kept moving along. She had nothing to hold onto that would keep her in this life and make her resist death. In the final line "and so castles made of sand slips into the sea eventually," the castle is this girl's life which had no substance or worth to it. She had no joy or happiness to hold her together, and her sorrow overcame her pushing her to commit suicide. Musically, this song is written as a ballad, very slow paced and relaxed. The lyrics of the verses are spoken except for the chorus line "Castles made of sand.", and the lines have a very choppy sound without a real flow from word to word and line to line. Jimi Hendrix speaks the words with almost a monotone voice hinted with a tone of indifference as if saying that life is just unfair and the way things are cannot be changed but must be accepted. His guitar seems to emit a sad, whining sound creating a fitting background to mesh with the serious, morose lyrics.
The recurring theme of "castles made of sand." puts together two very contrasting words. Castles generally represent something strong, majestic, and long lasting, but castles of sand depict the opposite of this. Something made of sand is easily destroyed, disappearing quickly. The love between the woman and man, the Indian boy's dream to be a warrior, and the crippled girl's incentive to continue living were all castles made of sand that melted away into the sea of the reality of life, the reality that life is unfair and unpredictable. In the third verse of the song, Jimi Hendrix goes as far to say that even life itself is a castle made of sand. He seems to be saying that nothing in this life, nor even life itself can be depended on.
In general, Jimi Hendrix's music is considered to have an emotional honesty as well as a vision of cultural and social brotherhood. "Castles Made of Sand" is no exception. All cultures and social classes can associate with the message of this song in some form or another. Most people have had an experience with a "castle made of sand." Whether it be love or a dream or anything else one hold's dear, almost everyone has seen something that they have built up and come to cherish crumble and melt away before their eyes. All have experienced the uncertainty and cruelty of life when one's "castles" fall away in life's stormy seas and crashing waves."
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: Osker246]
#5711682 - 06/04/06 03:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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wow thats amazing.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: l33tflip1]
#5711851 - 06/04/06 04:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah I know. That site is basicly the best place to go if your wondering the meaning behind a song.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: Osker246]
#5712942 - 06/04/06 09:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jimi Hendrix a legendary super hero
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: EinsteinMethod]
#5715486 - 06/05/06 03:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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this is one of my favorite songs when i was a kid. Even as a little kid id have a big emotional response to the song and the lyrics... like my chest could burst. I had very strong visual imagery to the songs in my head from my young imagination that ive held til today.
Even then, what stood out to me is how the first 2 situations are tragic, and the last one is very the complete opposite. They lose something positive. She loses something negative. I think thats what the whole point of the song is... That good things dont always last, but you gotta remember that the negative things melt into the sea eventually too.
-------------------- that there, thats not me. i go where i please. im not here. this isnt happening.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: plexus]
#5720052 - 06/06/06 06:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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bad things and good things come to an end "eventually"
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Re: Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of Sand [Re: l33tflip1]
#7313134 - 08/20/07 04:36 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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computers!! ahhhh! ... nevermind...
yeah castles made of sand is one of my fav hendrix songs as well. about the lyrics though, i dont really remember them other than what you guys just brought up so id have to listen or look it up which right now im not going to do cus of my damn computer. i was barely able to post this. but with the alcoholic and suicide references going on i thought about the concept of bad foundations... things that arent built well will eventually fall.. ie castles made of sand.
some of you were talking about good and bad things coming to an end as well and thats cool too but again id have to check the lyrics to see if i agree. but the guy that brought up the parts he didnt understand got me thinking about this so...
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