| U2 – Van Diemen's Land Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| lol Van Dieman wasn't the captain, he was the Dutch governor of Batavia (modern Java) who commissioned the expedition to search for the southern continent. Tasman landed here briefly in 1642. | |
| The Doors – Riders On The Storm Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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All metaphors people "There's a killer on the road" The metaphor he used a bit about the shaman soul entering him at the car crash as a boy is well know. This was like a hitchhiker. Though this hitchhiker is a broader metaphor than that - A reference to reading Kerouac's On The Road as a lad, and the influence its protagonist Dean Moriarty it had on him. So many of the authors he read, he became disillusioned, saw them as a curse on a fragile young mind. I like the part of his Paris Journal where he wrote "A man searching for lost paradise May seem a fool To one who has never sought the other world Where friends do lie and drift Insanely in Their own private gardens" with the 'friends' being authors Perhaps Kerouac, and not Moriarty, is the killer on the road? btw the lyric IS "sweet MEMORY will die", not family. |
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