{"id":18797,"date":"2013-05-13T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:42:31","slug":"hidden-meanings-styx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hidden-meanings-styx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Meanings: Styx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZAMUxYEwwU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nGreetings, fellow Townspeople! I come before you with the latest edition of yet another long-running feature here in the Hall, entitled &#8220;Hidden Meanings.&#8221; Long-timers will know what is expected of them here: we are required, as enquiring rock nerds, to try and parse out what authors of noteworthy lyrics really mean by the words they write. So, jointly, we set our minds towards the collective (re)interpretation of words that may have passed the critical community&#8217;s gaze without the careful scrutiny which they may have deserved.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the words we need to parse for hidden, double meanings are offered by Dennis DeYoung, of Styx. The song is &#8220;Come Sail Away.&#8221; My question for the collective is as follows: one might think that this song is about sailing away \u2014 or, if you&#8217;re able to stick around for the shock twist ending, about <em>space aliens<\/em>. But what does a more serious study reveal? What does DeYoung really mean by the following:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sailing away<br \/>\nSet an open course for the Virgin Sea<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause I&#8217;ve got to be free<br \/>\nFree to face the life that&#8217;s ahead of me<\/p>\n<p>On board, I&#8217;m the captain<br \/>\nSo climb aboard<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll search for tomorrow on every shore<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll try, oh Lord, I&#8217;ll try to carry on<\/p>\n<p>I look to the sea<br \/>\nReflections in the waves spark my memory<br \/>\nSome happy, some sad<br \/>\nI think of childhood friends and the dreams we had<\/p>\n<p>We lived happily forever<br \/>\nSo the story goes<br \/>\nBut somehow we missed out on the pot of gold<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;ll try best that we can to carry on<\/p>\n<p>A gathering of Angels appeared above my head<br \/>\nThey sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said<\/p>\n<p>They said, &#8220;Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads<br \/>\nCome sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me<br \/>\nCome sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me baby<br \/>\nCome sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought that they were Angels, but to my surprise<br \/>\nWe climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies<\/p>\n<p>Singing, come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow Townspeople! I come before you with the latest edition of yet another long-running feature here in the Hall, entitled &#8220;Hidden Meanings.&#8221; Long-timers will know what is expected of them here: we are required, as enquiring rock nerds, to try and parse out what authors of noteworthy lyrics really mean by the words they <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hidden-meanings-styx\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}