1959

[nick the stripper]

I’ve been listening to 1959 on repeat today after being verily moved by it and feeling like I’ve “really gotten� what it’s all about. To me, the whole song is about disappointment and regret. The narrator reflects on his childhood and how everything started out pure and clean, including himself, but that he soon passively crossed a line that destroyed that purity and can now see, unlike before, the way things were going. When he says “and the wind blows wild again, for a little child can never kill this clean�, he’s reflecting on how reckless people are in their youth, including himself, thanks to a lack of foresight.

Another element of the song seems to be a rather callous need for solace. Throughout the song, he asks a girl, Isabelle, if she feels like him or 1959, i.e. if she’s “sinful� or “pure�, almost as if he is hoping she is the former so he can have someone to identify with. Hence he asks her at the end of the song to “come with me�.

Living as an angel in the
Place that I was born
Living on air
Living in heaven
Giving the lie down, the line
To the
There's my heaven

And I know
Which way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine

Which way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine

And the wind blows still
And the wind blows wild again
For a little child can never kill this clean
This way
And it feels like me today
Tell me
Do you feel the same?
Isabelle?
Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?
...Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?

And the wind blows wild again
And the wind blows wild

In nineteen fifty-nine
In fifty-nine
Isabelle
Do you, do you fell the same?

Come with me
Like a little child
Like another gun
Like homeless, restless, known to none, like
Way beyond the line
Like it never was
In nineteen fifty-nine

[weebleswobble]

I bet wrote it on the bog

[eotunun]

I never really got the co-notations of "gun". Appart from being a weapon that's a term for a young chap bound for army, right? Slightly wrong? All wrong?

[splintered thing]

I never really got the co-notations of "gun". Appart from being a weapon that's a term for a young chap bound for army, right? Slightly wrong? All wrong?

Yep! that is correct - or a son-of-a-gun, ie child of a service man.

[eotunun]

Thankee, Thingy!
See it now, Jam~es? I am not *clinically* daft. Just outlandish.

[Debi]

lovely beautiful song

[stufarq]

Eldritch has confirmed that it's about innocence. Isabelle was apparently a fan who had written to him suggesting that he record a song with just piano and voice.

[Debi]

Eldritch has confirmed that it's about innocence. Isabelle was apparently a fan who had written to him suggesting that he record a song with just piano and voice.

thats what i heard too - and it really works

[elamanamou]

What is the story of 1959 of a girl called "Isabelle" writing to AE about lyrics of 1959?

I read about it year's ago, but can't remember the story? She must of been so chuffed and a nice gesture from AE. Actually my ex did go off with her, but it's a long time ago - No hard feelings

I liked the video of 1959

[Being645]

Here's the threat we've so far got about it ...
https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=17863

[elamanamou]

Thanks Being. I think with the piano and voice worked. I really like 1959

[Being645]

I also like that song very much.
Not exactly the video, tough. It looks so casually done in my eyes.

[elamanamou]

I also like that song very much.
Not exactly the video, tough. It looks so casually done in my eyes.

Must of been a few takes. Look for the candle!

[Pista]

Here's the threat we've so far got about it ...
https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=17863

Good call.
Merged

[elamanamou]

I like the lyric about his birthplace. I have strong connections to Ely

[Being645]

The cathedrale is particularly beautiful. And looking at those masterpieces of decoration in one of the side chapels,
one could indeed feel like living as an angel in heaven ... not to forget the Octagon ... the stained glass museum and
the lovely cathedrale park ...

[elamanamou]

Also the home of Oliver Cromwell that you can visit. Kings School next door to the cathedral.