There's one problem with this analysis by Mr. Mungbeam.
The song is about adolescence and the narrator of the song is an adolescent himself.
Cypress Avenue is a real street in Belfast near where Van Morrison grew up. At the time he wrote the song, Van Morrison wasn't even in the UK. He moved to New York, then to Massachusetts.
Cypress Avenue is a street he would go to as adolescent. It was across the tracks. He grew up in a poor area and Cypress Avenue was nearby but a different world, where people had money and fancy houses. Cypress Avenue was a beautiful quiet tree-lined street that almost looks like a Morrison said he would go there to think as a kid.
What age was Van going there? Well he quotes All Shook Up by Elvis in the song. A song that came out in his early adolescence.
My tongue gets tied
Every time I try to speak
And my inside shakes just like a leaf on a tree
He also talks about being tongue-tied and not knowing what to say which is a classic almost universal feeling adolescents have. Cypress Avenue is unattainable world he's never seen before He see a girl he likes, but as a poor kid knows there's this gulf between them that will never be crosses....and he fantasizes she's his Lady in carriage with six white horses.
There's one problem with this analysis by Mr. Mungbeam.
The song is about adolescence and the narrator of the song is an adolescent himself.
Cypress Avenue is a real street in Belfast near where Van Morrison grew up. At the time he wrote the song, Van Morrison wasn't even in the UK. He moved to New York, then to Massachusetts.
Cypress Avenue is a street he would go to as adolescent. It was across the tracks. He grew up in a poor area and Cypress Avenue was nearby but a different world, where people had money and fancy houses. Cypress Avenue was a beautiful quiet tree-lined street that almost looks like a Morrison said he would go there to think as a kid.
What age was Van going there? Well he quotes All Shook Up by Elvis in the song. A song that came out in his early adolescence.
He also talks about being tongue-tied and not knowing what to say which is a classic almost universal feeling adolescents have. Cypress Avenue is unattainable world he's never seen before He see a girl he likes, but as a poor kid knows there's this gulf between them that will never be crosses....and he fantasizes she's his Lady in carriage with six white horses.
I think this link gives a good sense of what is going in the song https://www.songfacts.com/place/cyprus-avenue-belfast/cyprus-avenue
So adults can't write about their adolescence?
Are you allowing the possibility you might be wrong?
Why do you buy Mr. Mungbeam's explanation. Above all the others who wrote about this song or just listened to it and enjoyed it?
This is my point. If this guy is a pedo, you're seeing it through the lens of pedophile. That's a distorted lens
If I took a picture of my kids playing in the backyard, there's nothing wrong with that.
It might mean something completely different to a pedophile.
Never said it couldn't. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be.
Yes. I do like this song. And this off-base pedophile's distorted take on it never occurred to me.