{"id":10047,"date":"2011-09-20T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2011-09-20T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:37:27","slug":"dharma-of-the-blowers-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/09\/dharma-of-the-blowers-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dharma of The Blower’s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Above is Ni Andong’s cover of Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’, whose original version is below. Ni’s take\u00a0sent some shivers down my spine (in a resonant, not creepy way), more so than Rice’s version, which is moving too.\u00a0But what’s more interesting is that I finally heard the last words clearly –<\/p>\n

I can’t take my eyes off you
\nI can’t take my eyes off you
\nI can’t take my eyes off you
\nI can’t take my eyes off you
\nI can’t take my eyes off you
\nI can’t take my eyes…<\/p>\n

Did I say that I loathe you?<\/span>
\nDid I say that I want to
\nLeave it all behind?<\/p>\n

I can’t take my mind off you
\nI can’t take my mind off you…
\nI can’t take my mind off you
\nI can’t take my mind off you
\nI can’t take my mind off you
\nI can’t take my mind…
\nMy mind… my mind…
\n‘Til I find somebody new
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The last line is simply amazing. After all the painful lamenting of the singer that he can’t forget someone in a love-hate relationship,\u00a0he seems sure that he will be able to let go when he finds another love interest.\u00a0How can someone be so heartbroken over a lost love while thinking of the possibility of a new love? How true is love that can waver?\u00a0Is this hypocritical? Not really, perhaps. It is honest to truth – the case for most beings in Samsara,\u00a0who are cyclical, self-conflicting in nature, loving and loathing, clinging and losing. This is a sad song indeed, that sings of the suffering of Samsara.<\/p>\n

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