Fates Warning - Point of View

[ellyssian]

And this one is for the ladies... /Barry-White-Type-Voiceover

Seriously, Point of View is from 1991's Parallels, where "parallels" refers to "significant others".

So here we have Fates with a whole album full o' love songs.

Except, they're really rather realistic love songs. In other words, happily ever after doesn't really come into the vocabulary.

Case in point: the lyrics of today's tune:

looking out on a familiar scene
theres no agreement in what we see
your perception lacks clarity
and my perspective is blinding me

side by side
divided they stand

parallel lives running parallel with YOU
to the point where our horizons divide
my opinion is just a point of view
and your position is the other side

caught up in our convictions we forget
how our senses distort things we see
we cant accept our differences
but we can always disagree

side by side
divided they stand

parallel lives running parallel with YOU
to the point where our horizons divide
my opinion is just a point of view
and your position is the other side

where I stand is not so far from YOU
a different opinion is just another point of view

parallel lives running parallel with YOU
to the point where our horizons divide
my opinion is just a point of view
and your position is the other side

So there you have it, all in a ee cummings sort of way, with the exception of YOU, because these songs are all about YOU... =)