From: BOBHUGHES@TTLC.NET   
      
   OK, here's my "interpretation" of the third movement of SMiLE   
      
   We start out with the Prelude.   The hero pledges to "get in shape"   
   because he wants to "be around" when his beloved is in danger.  He   
   signifies this by showing off his power tools.  The seeds of   
   foreboding have been planted.   It's not "if" somebody breaks her   
   heart, it's "when".  So we know that disaster is on the way.   
      
   The Elements- 1st Movement-Vegetables (Earth)   
   The hammering sounds turn into digging, gardening comences, the Earth   
   blooms with the hope of new Spring.  The hero eats his vegetables-   
   he's in shape for whatever disaster lies ahead.   
      
   2nd Movement Part - 1 Holidays (Air)   
   BUT- our hero daydreams- not about his girl, but about being a pirate   
   in the Carribean, long, long ago.  He is not faithful.  He is   
   frivolous and frolicking.  Holidays, is an Air song. The wind is in   
   the sails- and our hero is full of hot air himself.   
      
   2nd Movement Part 2 Wind Chimes (still Air) Not sure- either the hero   
   is in reality staring at his Wind Chimes, while he's daydreaming about   
   being a pirate, or his girl is alone staring at the windchimes,   
   because her hero has deserted her for his daydreams.  Either way, the   
   two songs are inextricably linked by the "Long long ago/Whispering   
   wind"section.   
      
   3rd Movement -Mrs Olearys Cow (Fire)  The long foretold disaster   
   comes.  The hero's girl is in danger, but the daydreaming hero fails   
   to show up and everything burns to  the ground.   The relationship is   
   finished.   
      
   4th Movement  Blue Hawaii (Water).  Sitting in the ashes, our hero   
   dispairs.  His soliloguy shows desperation and a need for rebirth.  He   
   must break out of his misery.  And the only way to do that is to do   
   something instead of just dreaming about it- so he goes to Hawaii for   
   real and begins to heal his soul.   
      
   Coda- Good Vibrations His soul finally healed, our hero is open to the   
   prospect of New Love.  If he can find the girl with the right   
   vibration!   
      
   See, it all makes perfect sense.   
      
      
      
      
   Bob Hughes   
      
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   truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music.  Music is best."   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)