In his love song, "Black," he [vedder] writes: "All five horizons revolved around her soul/ As the earth to the sun." Has Eddie seen five horizons? When he saw his lover, did he immediately think her soul is like the earth revolving around the sun? It seems like he thought too long of how to express his feelings and lost the spontaneity of the passion, the simplicity of the emotion. When they're covered in all that icing, lyrics just don't have the same power as when they are allowed to express simple human emotions in simple human terms. That's where Axl's power came from - you feel like Axl is candidly speaking when you hear his lyrics - there is no distance between Axl and his audience.
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