| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Superba, I think that "climb" still fits in with a depiction of sex, as in the climb to orgasm (as his eyes sort of roll back into his head and stop moving, you know?) As for the two-headed part, I was thinking more along the lines of a freak sort of thing, as he's "floating in glass" and taps on his jar, like everyone's watching him like he was some sort of mutated lab rat. I think that he's not necessarily disfigured or anything, it's just a figurative depiction. Given the Anne Frank take on things, the lines "the world that you need is wrapped in gold and silver sleeves, left beneath Christmas trees in the snow" is an allusion to the epitome of non-Jewish holidays. It's kind of a defeatist stance to take on the whole Christian assault on the Jews. Not a sermon, just a thought. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Alright, think about it this way: This song immediately follows "Holland, 1945," which is generally considered to be about Anne Frank. Following with the same theme, I think this song is also about WWII. I think the semen-stained mountain tops are referring to breasts, but are also an allegory to the Eastern Front of WWII. The Germans invaded Russia by way of the Caucus mountains, and hit them hard; the Russians suffered about 10 casualties for every one German. That might be where the rape reference comes in, as a depiction of the one-sided slaughter of Russians (as in the Rape of Nanking, when Japan "raped" China). The semen-stained mountain tops of rape can read parallel as the blood-stained Caucuses. That's what I think, anyway. Or Hitler's ideals are soiling the communist way of life. Something like that. What do you guys think? |
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