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Lyric Analysis - Do you have your own take on this song? Maybe you have something of your own to add. E-mail the site under the "Home" section of the menu above - why not share your thoughts for all to see? |
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These are generally, mellow songs that seem to be set in fairly chilled gatherings, so I’ll not spoil them with my interpretive ramblings. "Longest Night" has an additional theme, about finding a companion after a barren spell on the love front. Not much in the way of interpretation here (but who exactly are the initialled people, for example Mr. B.M.O.C.)? May I leave you with a "serving suggestion" for "Longest Night"? I’ll always remember this song for when I happened to have it playing on my walkman on a coach at about 6a.m., having travelled overnight through Scotland, England and France to see my girlfriend. Next time you’re on an uncomfortable overnight Greyhound / Amtrack journey, play this song just as the dawn starts breaking – it really chills you out and makes you feel better!!! Follow-up, June 25 2001: Longest Night takes us back to a theme that was first introduced in the song “Stander on the Mountain”. Namely, a high-school or college reunion. (As many of you have since told me, B.M.O.C. is an acronym for “Big Man on Campus”). Funnily enough, the song ends with a fairly routine romantic side to it, i.e. the boy in the song meets a nice girl, for friendship possibly leading to something else. This is nothing compared with “Stander on the Mountain”, where apparently boy MAKES OUT with girl in a car on a roadside (The instrumental break on the ‘Noisemakers’ version lasts just about long enough, I think, for this to happen), and the song also includes some fairly contemplative thoughts on the various emotional aspects of reunions in general. |
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