| Kings of Leon – Beautiful War Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Thanks Hollie. So the person (actually the sex is unclear) is shouting at the top of their voice but with the tip of the tongue sticking out. That's a pretty odd combination, usually with this arrangement the fingers would be in the ears (not mentioned). But there is another more likely explanation - I think I get it now. As you say these are people who fight a lot in a Beautiful War. This is a song about the New Zealand All-Blacks Rugby Team. Before their matches they perform a Maori dance called a Haka, which includes just those moves - shouting with tongue out. In England, Association Football (soccer) is known as "The Beautiful Game". So maybe in Nashville, Tennessee where the Followills all live, Rugby Football is "The Beautiful War". That would fit, rugby being a much more physical game than soccer. I would think that the lines about the warmth of the body is to do with the rugby scrummage where they all gang up together, linked, to fight over the ball. The only part we now have to explain is "shattered and cold"; there are fatalities in rugby but rare. It may be a weather reference; rugby being a winter game, and "shattered" meaning exhausted after 45 minutes each way plus injury time. You may also be interested in my deconstruction of "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" by Judith Kerr. (Husband is gay, unable to maintain marital obligations, wife has lover in who drinks all beer and eats all food, she has to invent Tiger as explanation) |
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| Kings of Leon – Beautiful War Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's a good song and all, although they seem to be turning into U2 (not a good thing IMHO). But I don't understand the line about the top of her lungs driving him crazy. How can he see/ feel the tops of her lungs so they drive him crazy? Is he like Gunther von Hagens the loony pathologist or Hannibal Lecter and sliced her up or something? Is she like blown to bits by a bomb in the beautiful war? Am I missing some cute metaphor? Help me out! | |
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