You’ve all had that feeling. You know, that unsettling feeling when you start to think about concepts like eternity or infinity or space (as in the final frontier). Every once and a while I find a song that evokes that exact same emotion, an emotion (is that the right word?) that I am never able to describe in a way that is satisfactory.
“Gideon” is one of these songs. And it happens when Jim James’ releases the primal yell that follows the lyrics.
I’m not sure why “Gideon” is so existentially unsettling in this way. Perhaps it is because the yell appears to be the “this” he is referring to when he asks you to “listen, listen . . . what does this remind you of.” Perhaps it is because the answer is elusive.
The yell seems to me to be the most perfect expression of “I don’t know.”
Maybe.
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