Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Lamento De Mente

Lamento Demente is Jimi-superfly-sneaky. One of several on "Ponchito" sung in Spanish, the song title plays with Spanish word sounds that may be understood as "lament of the mind" (lamento de mente) or "demented lamentation" (lamento demente) when spoken aloud.

Esotery is all up in it, of course. If you care for depth and density, it generally entertains sociopolitical and moral quandaries manifest in questions of identity, worldview, mental health, societal norms, e, t, c. It's not easy to specify if the speaker has an internal convo, is speaking with someone else, or both. But the complex confluence of human systems and the mind blur the lines of truth, reality, right-wrong, place, self, etc. Are the very systems the mind generates and exports later to be lamented? "The milk is pizzled" in the crawlspace of the mind. Here are the lyrics
translated to English:

What truth manifests in the world...in your world, my brother?
Take a look from the window...
(from the window) of your mind, which I lament may be demented
Look from the window, go on...
There's a price to pay for everything, everything has a cost...
What gives?
What gets tuned in? Who gets taken in? What is accomplished?

Vaguely about and for an individual affected by drug addiction.
Hear, hear.

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