D Dude#1279435 Audioholic Warlord Oct 31, 2020 9,543 0 36 Mar 30, 2021 #1 I think this album is the one culturally that probably holds as the standard the last 30 years for the english. What I love about some of Ian Brown's lyrics is they're simple but have such a natural flow to them. I can't put my finger on it. Something maybe about resurrection, god, countryside.....anyway, I think Waterfall, Elizabeth My Dear, This Is The One, and Don't Stop are the best. The great John Leckie produced it. On Waterfall I love how the chorus mimics it..... Chimes sing Sunday morn Today's the day she's sworn To steal what she never could own And race from this hole she calls home Now you're at the wheel Tell me how, how does it feel? So good to have equalized To lift up the lids of your eyes As the miles they disappear See land begin to clear Free from the filth and the scum This American satellites won She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall See the steeple pine The hills as old as time Soon to be put to the test To be whipped by the winds of the west Stands on shifting sands The scales held in her hands The wind it just whips her and waits And fills up her brigantine sails She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall I thought this was the best explanation of they lyrics meaning..... https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/79260/ My Interpretation This song seems to be about Britain and the fall of empire perhaps; and the idea that perhaps British culture is being eroded by the 'winds of the west', by American culture and American power. The song definitely has a sense of melancholy to it, but also a sense of surrender and resignation to the need for Britain to just go with what is happening; to not fight it. The idea that Britain will carry on through it all and go on as it always has and always will but things will just be different. To me it seems like some kind of ode to Britain's history of glory and perhaps to a culture lost or overtaken by the US. This song really gets to me actually. When I hear songs like this it really reminds me of what song writing is all about. The lyrics are superb but the music actually captures the sentiment that is being expressed. It has a transient feel to it which encapsulates the concept of change or movement, evolution and modernity.
I think this album is the one culturally that probably holds as the standard the last 30 years for the english. What I love about some of Ian Brown's lyrics is they're simple but have such a natural flow to them. I can't put my finger on it. Something maybe about resurrection, god, countryside.....anyway, I think Waterfall, Elizabeth My Dear, This Is The One, and Don't Stop are the best. The great John Leckie produced it. On Waterfall I love how the chorus mimics it..... Chimes sing Sunday morn Today's the day she's sworn To steal what she never could own And race from this hole she calls home Now you're at the wheel Tell me how, how does it feel? So good to have equalized To lift up the lids of your eyes As the miles they disappear See land begin to clear Free from the filth and the scum This American satellites won She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall See the steeple pine The hills as old as time Soon to be put to the test To be whipped by the winds of the west Stands on shifting sands The scales held in her hands The wind it just whips her and waits And fills up her brigantine sails She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall I thought this was the best explanation of they lyrics meaning..... https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/79260/ My Interpretation This song seems to be about Britain and the fall of empire perhaps; and the idea that perhaps British culture is being eroded by the 'winds of the west', by American culture and American power. The song definitely has a sense of melancholy to it, but also a sense of surrender and resignation to the need for Britain to just go with what is happening; to not fight it. The idea that Britain will carry on through it all and go on as it always has and always will but things will just be different. To me it seems like some kind of ode to Britain's history of glory and perhaps to a culture lost or overtaken by the US. This song really gets to me actually. When I hear songs like this it really reminds me of what song writing is all about. The lyrics are superb but the music actually captures the sentiment that is being expressed. It has a transient feel to it which encapsulates the concept of change or movement, evolution and modernity.
D Dude#1279435 Audioholic Warlord Oct 31, 2020 9,543 0 36 Mar 30, 2021 #2 A pity Brown doesn't have good live vocals. I'm sure more than any other reason that's why they couldn't hit it internationally. I'm content with the studio recordings camouflaging them and prefer him as a poet. Here their playing is extremely tight. Unreal engineering by Leckie. A girl consumed by fire We all know her desire From the plans that She has made I had her on a promise Immerse me in your splendor All the plans that I have made This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one She's waited for I'd like to leave the country For a month of Sundays Burn the town where I was born If only she'd believe me Bellona belladonna Burn me out or bring me home This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for Oh this is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one Oh this is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for I paid her back Then I got one This is the one This is the one She's waited for And this is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one Oh this is the one Ah this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one The Stone Roses - This Is The One Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings This Is The One Lyrics & Meanings: A girl consumed by fire / We all know her desire / From the plans that she has made / I had her on a promise / Imme... songmeanings.com -I agree that it's biblical imagery (there's early versions of it with more obviously biblical lyrics if I remember right) but the lyrics are also very suggestive of Samuel Delany's novel Dhalgren, which is set in a town called Bellona (which is out of "the country") and features among other things a literal "month of Sundays" and a heckuva lot of fire. I reckon one of them had just read it and thought it'd make good lyrics. (And they were right, 'cause "Bellona, Belladonna" sung like that is one of the best lines ever!) -As per I think this song is about love or an affair. The girl consumed by fire who's desires are obvious because of the plans that she had made. However I get the hint she is not only married but married to a local hardcase. I had her on a promise - not to say anything so the other half doesn't find out. The bloke thinking this is the one being in love and the woman this is the one she's waiting for because he's the only person to go through with her plans. The reason I get the hint she is married to a hard man is because 'she is consumed by fire' or in a dangerous place and the forth verse. I'd like to leave the country for a month of Sunday's (get away from this bloke) burn the town where I was born - get rid of the husband. Bellona Belladonna is a beautifully sung line. Bellona means beautiful woman and belladonna is a deadly nightshade type drug I might have them mixed up but yeah, google it It's also been mentioned this about an orgasm (or not having had one in a long time), but I'm guessing there's a duality to with I've waited for. Meaning something like achieving rapture with the mythical Bellona.
A pity Brown doesn't have good live vocals. I'm sure more than any other reason that's why they couldn't hit it internationally. I'm content with the studio recordings camouflaging them and prefer him as a poet. Here their playing is extremely tight. Unreal engineering by Leckie. A girl consumed by fire We all know her desire From the plans that She has made I had her on a promise Immerse me in your splendor All the plans that I have made This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one She's waited for I'd like to leave the country For a month of Sundays Burn the town where I was born If only she'd believe me Bellona belladonna Burn me out or bring me home This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for Oh this is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one Oh this is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one This is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one I've waited for I paid her back Then I got one This is the one This is the one She's waited for And this is the one This is the one Oh this is the one This is the one She's waited for This is the one Oh this is the one Ah this is the one This is the one I've waited for This is the one The Stone Roses - This Is The One Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings This Is The One Lyrics & Meanings: A girl consumed by fire / We all know her desire / From the plans that she has made / I had her on a promise / Imme... songmeanings.com -I agree that it's biblical imagery (there's early versions of it with more obviously biblical lyrics if I remember right) but the lyrics are also very suggestive of Samuel Delany's novel Dhalgren, which is set in a town called Bellona (which is out of "the country") and features among other things a literal "month of Sundays" and a heckuva lot of fire. I reckon one of them had just read it and thought it'd make good lyrics. (And they were right, 'cause "Bellona, Belladonna" sung like that is one of the best lines ever!) -As per I think this song is about love or an affair. The girl consumed by fire who's desires are obvious because of the plans that she had made. However I get the hint she is not only married but married to a local hardcase. I had her on a promise - not to say anything so the other half doesn't find out. The bloke thinking this is the one being in love and the woman this is the one she's waiting for because he's the only person to go through with her plans. The reason I get the hint she is married to a hard man is because 'she is consumed by fire' or in a dangerous place and the forth verse. I'd like to leave the country for a month of Sunday's (get away from this bloke) burn the town where I was born - get rid of the husband. Bellona Belladonna is a beautifully sung line. Bellona means beautiful woman and belladonna is a deadly nightshade type drug I might have them mixed up but yeah, google it It's also been mentioned this about an orgasm (or not having had one in a long time), but I'm guessing there's a duality to with I've waited for. Meaning something like achieving rapture with the mythical Bellona.
D Dude#1279435 Audioholic Warlord Oct 31, 2020 9,543 0 36 Apr 11, 2025 #3 Insane playing. Another gem. That's probably John Leckie producing this. The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings Elephant Stone Lyrics & Meanings: Burst into heaven / Kiss in the cotton clouds / Arctic sheets and fields of wheat / I can't stop coming down / Your ... songmeanings.com Agreed. The album version is far supirior to the other mix... I'm of the opinion it's about a guy who thinks...rather highly of himself, we'll say. But he's brought down to earth "like an elephant stone" by the girl of his dreams wanting nothing to do with him.
Insane playing. Another gem. That's probably John Leckie producing this. The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings Elephant Stone Lyrics & Meanings: Burst into heaven / Kiss in the cotton clouds / Arctic sheets and fields of wheat / I can't stop coming down / Your ... songmeanings.com Agreed. The album version is far supirior to the other mix... I'm of the opinion it's about a guy who thinks...rather highly of himself, we'll say. But he's brought down to earth "like an elephant stone" by the girl of his dreams wanting nothing to do with him.
