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Nonsensical Lyrics for Lithium Flower
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by AlucardNoir07
on 2005-04-16 22:33:00
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Does anyone know the reason for the strange lyrics to GITS SAC OST's ending theme Lithium Flower? Is there a hidden meaning or did Yoko Kanno simply choose the lyrics because they sounded cool.
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Re: Nonsensical Lyrics for Lithium Flower
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Kanno wasn't the lyricist. Tim Jensen made them.
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Re: Nonsensical Lyrics for Lithium Flower
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by roasted hot green peas
on 2005-04-18 00:48:35
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the song wasn't written for the anime - it already existed before gits: sac was created. the following is just my interpretation, so feel free to disagree or agree: the girl in the song is a surfer, evident from all those references to surfing - "...how is she when she doesn't surf?... where did she learn how to surf?... you know i've never seen the girl wipe out... how does she so perfectly surf?... i wanna go surfing with her...". the singer is admiring both the beauty of her appearance and the skill of her sport. alone on the waves, she appears spiritual - "so number nine" (nine is an important religious number in various cultures, esp in china) - and "stays so golden solo", as desireable and awe-inspiring as a precious metal. her physical proportions (and/or perhaps her skills as a surfer) are "incredible math". those who remember their chemistry would recall that lithium is an alkali metal, one of the elements that make up the first column of the periodic table (except hydrogen). these elements are highly reactive when in contact with water. so, like lithium, like "oil on fire", the girl on her surfboard reacts incredibly with the waves - her beauty "blooms" when she surfs. while she appears "so calm", she attacks the waves like a "matador" fighting a bull, with power like a "sonic wave" and finesse ("so groove"). |
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I didn't know that it was not written for the animation. Could you point out a site or an interview wherein this was mentioned? I am sure that Kanno makes the songs before the animation is released, but these songs are already with directives from the animation. My interpretation is different. The word 'surfing' could mean what you do in the internet, and the song is alluding to Motoko. "She's so cold and human... she's incredible math..." There's a popular Asian flower called the "Lilium Flower", and the change from 'Lilium' to 'Lithium' could have been made to fit as a symbolism to Motoko and her robotic nature. But of course it's also just a personal interpretation. I've never really heard Tim Jensen make such incoherent lyrics. I think he did it on purpose, which is, something I don't know.
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Re: Nonsensical Lyrics for Lithium Flower
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by AlucardNoir07
on 2005-04-19 09:40:53
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(001 thnx guys, i thought it had sumthin 2 do w/ motoko bn like a cyborg but i wasn't quite shur, and thnx 4 catchin my mistake mike s 6 cool beans u both r probly rite 2 sum degree and i guess since music is a form of art it's possible that jensen did it 2 leave the interpretation up 2 the listener
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Re: Nonsensical Lyrics for Lithium Flower
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by roasted hot green peas
on 2005-04-19 19:46:30
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someone told me that the song was written prior to gits, but i found no proof, so i've probably been misinformed. but i don't know if the song was necessarily written specifically about motoko. yeah, the song definitely fits with 'surfing' the web. while tim jensen and yoko kanno wrote superficially about the ocean in their gits tracks, i believe they meant to use the ocean as a metaphor. if you notice on the gits: sac first soundtrack, a couple tracks make nautical references or references to the ocean in their titles and/or lyrics (track 5: where does this ocean go?, track 12: fish - silent cruise). and throughout the gits universe (particularly the first movie), the internet is recognized as a 'sea of information'. so, rather than surfing the real oceans, the subject in 'lithium flower' is 'surfing' this 'sea of information'. but i don't see how the lilium flower fits in the song. when i think of lilies, i think yuri... i mean, their symbolism to purity and innocence. |