So how do you think? What do they want to say whit this song? :thinking:

The title is talking about some miserly guy pretending to be a king. Or that's the simple version anyways. I'm not well acquainted enough with the rest of the lyrics to go much deeper :P

The title is talking about some miserly guy pretending to be a king. Or that's the simple version anyways. I'm not well acquainted enough with the rest of the lyrics to go much deeper :P

Oh. I see. That makes sense. :) Thank you.

isn't it an old fable where a begger goes to a magical land where they have many gold and jewels and he can only give them a bowl/bucket and because its different its like gold for them and the king wears it for a crown, and they give the begger their jewels and gold.

 

the beggers rich neighbour gets jealous goes to the land to get his share but when he asks for their most valuable thing.... they give him the bowl/bucket

 

finito hehe.

You know, IMO this song has a strong Leonard Cohen feel to it (which is not a bad thing at all). :)

 

 

A.

I got the feeling Bucket For A Crown was about either 1 or more of the band members, or somebody else in the music industry, who thought they had it all and life was great but they messed it up somehow and have to endure the shame of wearing a bucket on his head (metaphorically) instead of a crown (kind of the same theme as Keane's The Frog Prince, in which the song is about how nice someone used to be but then turned into an idiot - Johnny Borrell apparently). Or it could be about, in general, fame can really mess you up, or life can mess you up, which kind of fits in with the song title "The Fall Of Man" - could the 'theme' of Album 4 be about how crazy fame is and how annoying the press are???

 

However, I could be very wrong lol. Whatever Bucket is about, it sounds amazing :)

Oh, really nice ideas, guys! :nice: I've never really stopped to think about this song and all you said makes perfect sense...

 

Well, as this song reflects their state now, I think the foruth album may sound pretty much like this, Fixed...I sorta agree with you... :) And it kinda remembers me Radiohead... :P

 

Ps: Vaaaaaal!!! :kiss: :kiss: :kiss:

artistic metaphor

 

Any good artist layers meanings - and perhaps does so intuitively. Bucket for a crown probably has several meanings, or maybe one original meaning, but is written metaphorically so that several meanings are possible. Poetry just is that way! I like the notion that it refers to the traveller who ventures to the land where gold is common, and the bucket is rare, then returns... used to be that way with pepper - worth more than gold; but now look at it - comes out of every shaker at any restaurant! value is arbitrary, and object-worship somewhat silly!:)

One thing's for sure - if Chris is ever asked what the song is about he'll say something along the lines of:

 

"Me and the guys were playing on a beach in Wales after we'd written Yellow and Jonny found a bucket so we thought it'd be really cool to put it on our heads and pretend it was a crown!"

 

Or something like that anyway.

^ Yeah, probably... :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

You're totaly right, chuck kottke, I think that you can decide the meaning of the song by yourself, there are lots of possibilities...And that's what makes music universal...

isn't it an old fable where a begger goes to a magical land where they have many gold and jewels and he can only give them a bowl/bucket and because its different its like gold for them and the king wears it for a crown, and they give the begger their jewels and gold.

 

the beggers rich neighbour gets jealous goes to the land to get his share but when he asks for their most valuable thing.... they give him the bowl/bucket

 

finito hehe.

 

 

wow, thanks for this, i've never heard this fable before.

 

I love the song...could have done without mentioning Gallagher though..haha :rolleyes:

I like to think it's all about Mrs. Bucket becoming Queen. :laugh3: (or, Mrs. Bouquet?) Could it be?? Might need to look again..

Andy Worhol was a bit more cryptic than Martin, but not by a long shot.. What Fixed has to say rings true, so RBT=! U know artists!!;) Always something to keep ya guessing..!

I like Bucket For a Crown. Its lyrics are awesome! :) I cannot wait for the studio version of this song.