Folk Process
Jun. 30th, 2006 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirluSo I was listening to Boiled in Lead's version of "Town of Ballybay" a while back and, possibly because I've been listening to Laïs a lot and they sing in French a lot, I had one of those precipitous drops through the language barrier. The lyric as Boiled in Lead reprint it (as do any number of other bands) is "She wouldn't go to bed, unless she had her shimmy on," and I had always wondered what the hell that was supposed to mean. Then it struck me right between the eyes. Not "shimmy", chemise.
And then as I was listening to "Ballybay" again today, I realized that, to me, the gap between the qualia we experience and what we are actually able to express that Kate contemplates here is really just the first transformation of the folk process. Evolution begins with the first step.
Or, as Bruce Cockburn says it, "Everything is motion; to the motion be true." Change is inevitable, right from the beginning.
And then as I was listening to "Ballybay" again today, I realized that, to me, the gap between the qualia we experience and what we are actually able to express that Kate contemplates here is really just the first transformation of the folk process. Evolution begins with the first step.
Or, as Bruce Cockburn says it, "Everything is motion; to the motion be true." Change is inevitable, right from the beginning.
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