Wednesday 14 August 2013

Olive: You're Not Alone



This song represents a phenomena peculiar to SGWB music: 'the gatekeeper'...meaning that the heroine watches over proceedings with a supernatural omnipotence, like a kind of sighing Goddess, arranging matter around the mouse who has left her. In this case Gwendolynne imagines it's about her and Kinglsley, that unemployed pottery enthusiast with a toenail infection who got back together with his ex. Note that in 'the gatekeeper' songs that the Goddess is never vengeful...more just sad, content to make milk bottles rattle slightly as he passes.

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