A girl -13 - going through adolescence creates an imaginary friend who is at the end of adolescence -16. The friend/sister helps her through her trying times though the friend/sister/herself has a dark side with bad memories (she envies the water's lack of memory). It is a perfect life for as long as it lasts and is necessary for her to mature at which point the friend/sister fades away.
I like how natural the girls look in this video. No/minimum make up, no revealing clothing. Just natural beauty combined with the beauty of friendship and the beauty of nature.
Steven Wilson makes music from his soul, from the heart and for himself - this is how there is such an amazing diversity to his music, he's not trying to please everybody by making one song sound the same as the last one. I imagine he is one of very few artists these days who is allowed complete artistic control over what he does. So before criticizing or comparing this to his other songs, remember , this is what makes him so great ....
once their was a point in my life when i was so depressed i was about to commit suicide...then i started to listen to porcupine tree.. here today i am alive.. steven wilson changed my life.
Steven Wilson is the perfect example of 'the classic artist.' He does what he wants for himself to express a deep yearning within himself, and trying only to do what he believes and feels is right. He only wants to produce things that he likes, he is always disassociating himself to what the current industry trends are and he tries to stay true with his true inner feelings. He isn't trying to impress anyone with his musicality or virtuoso. He just wants to be himself, and be accepted for exactly who he is. He wants to feel deeply the feelings that he has within and express them, allow for people to experience the very things he does and to share those feelings with people. And he will continue to play out those feelings to no end with his music because he DOES want to hold on to those feelings because they are HIS and he has a RIGHT to do that as an artist or a human being rather. It's for a very specific group of people. He knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't care because that's just who he is, and it painful for him that conventional society is so shallow, and does not accept him as such, especially as a child probably. He is an outsider, always was one and always wants to be one. He is the essence of a classic poet at heart.
When I was 13 I had a sister for 6 months.She arrived one February morning, pale and shellshocked, from past lives I could not imagine. She was 3 years older than me, but in no time we became friends.
We’d listen to her mix tapes; Dead Can Dance, Felt, This Mortal Coil…
She introduced me to her favourite books, gave me clothes, and my first cigarette.
Sometimes we would head down to Blackbirds moor to watch the barges on Grand Union in the twilight.
She said “The water has no memory”.
For a few months everything about our lives was perfect.
It was only us, we were inseparable.
But gradually she passed into another distant part of my memory.
Until I could no longer remember her face, her voice, even her name.
We have got
We have got a perfect life...
Suggest the Gregorian calendar years should be recalculated using zero years Before Steven Wilson (0 B.S.W.) to number of years Since Steven Wilson (nn S.S.W.) haha!
From the master of Progressive Rock comes a masterpiece of simplicity...
Sometimes a simple drum loop and a simple melody are just the magic we need...
A song full of feelings, nostalgia, heart...