I agree with most of Harriet's critique. I think all Donna needs to do is make it very clear in a listeners mind early on, whether our painter drinks, as Scott put it, to"remember or forget"...THEN we won't be spending all our energy on trying to figure this out, and can actually enjoy the lyric!

Sam, I came to think the same thing about the "memory police", and it took me a while too...but for the LIFE of me, can't recall what my thought process was that led me there, though I say, "They want to stop his memories (make "arrests"), that's why they're antagonists." I don't see how "arrest" could be used to mean "enforce", since the two words are practically antonyms, in this context!

I wish I had gone into more detail, cuz it's pretty evenly divided both ways, which should tell Donna to write something into V1 that immediately clears this up!

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 05/01/09 04:42 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)