It has finally been explained what the meaning of these lyrics are by Jim Seals himself. However, the 1972 hit gets a lot deeper than that. So if any answer exists, we hardly can find it in the texts. 3 years ago Jim Seals and Dash Crofts created a song called Summer Breeze that might just make you long for the warmth, the ocean, and just a nice summerday in general. And it is art first of all, not a biography in verse. If you ask me, I think that CocoRosie have a sort of so to say mythology of their own in their lyrics, and some facts of their biography just blend into their lyrical universe making inseparable whole. And what all of this is supposed to mean then? In the end we just get a cocktail of controversial and sometimes mutually exclusive facts. Ah, ah, ah, yeah Summer breeze, all in my mind No, no, no, no It's all in my mind No, no, no, no It's all in my mind Summer breeze makes me feel fine Blowing through the jasmines in my mind Oh. But on the other hand, there were much more cases of usage of lexis with positive connotations - 'my brother, my only kin', 'angel brother, I miss your hair, careless nature gentle stare'. Again, the word 'brother' was used in a very strange context. And there are as well lines in Here I Come: Surprise me like a monster/My brother liked to scare me/A rape in the meadow/A fornicating fellow. Though the lyrics is very tough, actually I do not see any direct links to the fact of incest, at least what concerns her father, (cf Fatherhood 'You never were a violent type'), but brother was also in the song. I watched recently an interview where Bianca says that she speaks in Werewolf 'about rape and incest in a very personal way'. 'Brother' is a very frequent character in their lyrics (Rainbow Warriors, Milkman, Werewolf, The Moon Asked the Crow, Fatherhood, not directly in this song, but there are lines like 'but in the end your children die', 'magic doesn't save your kids','watch them walk away' etc) And I'm also really confused because of this name being mentioned in this very song, for it doesn't seem to be autobiographical at all. Center point of the show was the small guy with the big voice. I was just trying to smile You were just fourteenĪs far as I understand, Simon was their deceased brother's name. The classics namely songs from their first album defined the set anyway. We could just get a place and start a life The roaring waves are analogous to his continuous pain and golden sand refers to his wife. You wanna fuck me and toss me back on the floorĪnd now hooked on dope, crying in the mirror In the second stanza, the poet stands on sea-shore, grasping sand. Summer Breeze is a song about the joy of life. You see me trying to smile up on this poleīut I'm just hiding the pain that’s deep in my soul Summer Breeze: the meaning of the lyrics. Started with my brother, first man I loved
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