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[alexandra]

Hi everybody

I haven�t been here for quite a while...
So, in this song, The Blower�s Daughter by Damien Rice, it says
��and so it is
just like you said it should be
we�ll both forget the breeze
most of the time
and so it is
the colder water
the blower�s daughter
the pupil in denial...``

What does that mean? My boss want to know, so please, anybody, save my job.

[Brian Boyd]

Hi Alexandra

The blower's daughter mentioned in that song is the daughter of Damien Rice's clarinet teacher.

Have you seen the movie 'Closer'? The song is in that film.

Brian
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[Marcomb]

Hi,

Um.....my post is not quite related to learning English.
But if you like Blower's Daugther, I recommand you try to listen Damien's other songs, like Volcano, Cold Water, and Cannon Ball. They are all good.

Post Me back if you got other similar music's choice.

Martin

[Blossom]

What is a Blower's Daughter? Why Blower?

Is he the opposite of Sucker?

[advoca]

What is a blower? And why does he have a daughter?

A search around the web shows that many people are baffled about the meaning of �blower� in the Damien Rice�s song called �The Blower�s Daughter.� It seems that �blow� means hash in Ireland, and possibly a �blower� is a supplier of hash, but what that has to do with anything in the song no-one seems to know.

One possible explanation, as Brian has said, is that a blower is someone who plays a wind instrument and that the Blowers Daughter is a clarinet teacher�s daughter.

A blower is a slang term for telephone in Britain, and it is also the slang name for an automobile engine supercharger. In Canada it is short for a snow blower. A blower is also a euphemism for a situation badly gone wrong, and it is also used (coarsely) for a male or female who will indulge in oral s e x (blow jobs).

You might be interested to learn that a blower is also the third cosine of the 21mm diamond drill�s amplified sonic profile, all coupled to three dilithium capacitors of from Teraterac Industries.

So you can take your pick Blossom and Alexandra

[Brian Boyd]

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I didn't mention the third cosine of the 21mm diamond drill�s amplified sonic profile, all coupled to three dilithium capacitors of from Teraterac Industries in my post because I thought that would have been stating the obvious.

Actually, the reason I know the blower is a clarinet teacher is because I looked around the internet too.

Seeing all of those uses for 'blow' also made me think of a 'blow hard' - someone who loves talking about themself, someone who boasts a lot. This is also known as 'blowing your own trumpet'.

Maybe Rice's clarinet teacher was a boastful person, so Rice was making a play on words by calling him 'the blower' (he blows the clarinet, and he's also blows his own tr- ... um .... clarinet!).

Brian
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