| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Finishing Jubilee Street Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Mary Stanford was a lifeboat that sunk in 1928 with 17 people on board. When I listen to this song, I have trouble understanding whether it is a girl or a boat Mr Cave is referring to. For example, the following lines can refer to the 1928 tragedy: "You draw the lightning from the sky" (it was storm that crashed Mary Stanford) "See that girl coming on down" (the boat sinking) "My children they are lost to us" (17 people of the crew who went down with the boat) "leaped like a black spider between your legs" (I imagine the lightning striking and making a black hole in the deck between the masts, if there were any) In the version of the song's lyrics that you can see in the video on the band's official YouTube channel, there are also lines about the skies devouring children and the great oaks that will "push the sky away" to protect the children. Maybe, it's about the wooden masts and the crew members as well. Thus, the phrase "to push the sky away" means "to avert a disaster or some elemental force". |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's not about the religion or the decay of our "godless" civilization. I think it's about searching for knowledge in different places at different times. It's also about media & popular culture. While there was time when people went to Memphis to aquire some experience (a place where blues musicians made music so great that it seemed they were selling their souls to the devil), but the protaginist chooses Geneva to be the place he can learn something important. The protagonist is the present-day missionnaire / a present-day blues musician (in my opinion, 'blues' is here synonymous to 'knowledge'): he will preach & "teach it to you". There is always a cost of any knowledge: either it is small pox & flu, or a bullet in Lorraine motel, or death under unknown circumstances. There is also kind of knowledge, which is useless and does no harm (a teenage icon Miley Cirus aka Hannah Montana swimming in her pool). The connection between all these pieces is that all of them represent the culture in a certain period of time and people's obsession by it (by accepting it, learning it, teaching it, etc.). Still, it's quite unstable: "I can't remember anything at all". Might be, there is just one thing that really matters and stays: the protagonist's realtionship with another human being ("you are the best girl I've ever had"). On the second thought, these checkpoints on the protagonist's memory lane might be just alternative Universes (whose existence might be proven in Geneva some day) :) |
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| Gogol Bordello – God-Like Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's 'golden middle', not 'metal' | |
| Gogol Bordello – God-Like Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's 'golden middle', not 'metal' | |
| Bauhaus – She's In Parties Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| livid_imp, I think it all makes sense when meaning Marilyn Monroe - lunatic may refer to the stuff that makes one like a lunatic - peels she took, drinks - it's obvious, She mixed the stuff - special effects were guarantied for sure! | |
| Bauhaus – Double Dare Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| daring decadents - i love them for this! | |
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