Talk:Velouria

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Does anyone know what this song is truly about?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.111.88.236 (talk • contribs) 2006-03-15T03:10:32 (UTC).

I think I've read at least 2 critics say it was about having an alien girlfriend. The Secretary of Funk 09:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

"Well, the sister continent of Atlantis is Lemuria, sank in the Pacific Ocean, and the remnants of a culture are holed up in Mount Shasta, which is in Northern California - its a hollowed out mountain. They live in the mountain today, because it's an ongoing kind of thing. So lemur skin, fur, Velouria rhymes with Lemuria... kind of, and that's sort of what that's all about. "

http://dag.wieers.com/debaser/docs/deathtot.php —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.123.80.64 (talk • contribs) 2007-03-21T06:19:20 (UTC).

An unofficial interpretation

This is not invented (I wish I could come up with something like that), but actually comes from many Frank Black interviews in which he talked about the song. There is some extended interpretation given by myself, just because I had to tie the story up with the lyrics and those interviews and many other views given by fans of the band which were coincidental.

I tried to be as economic as possible, not to add anything by myself. And I paste it here simply because it is a good... Well, even if only a good starting point, if not all valid.

The song is about a woman. The writer remembers seeing her when driving by Northern California, close to Mt. Shasta. He believes she lives there, maybe under the mountain, because she's somewhat related to the Lemurians, a mythical people who came from the lost continent of Lemuria. In California, there are people who believe the myth in those terms.

The thing is, the writer remembers her covered in a kind of velvet-like fabric, like velour or velveteen, maybe due to the cold and snow of Mt. Shasta. The "coat" with her eyes out makes her look like a lemur, which is funny, given the name of her people. A nice pun.

The writer wants to give her a name. When "Victoria" comes to mind, he makes the connection to "Velouria, the woman dressed in velour". He also remembers she, somehow, reflected the sea and the snow of Mt. Shasta, even if wearing the velour. Maybe this ability was due to her mysterious (some say "alien-like") origin. When Mt. Shasta in covered in snow and melting, she also reflects the "tears of Shasta".

The final touch is, he got intrigued by that woman - after all, she was too exotic to go unnoticed. He can't help but admiring her and thinking about the longest times her story has been recounted.

187.20.249.226 (talk) 06:31, 29 October 2010 (UTC)