| Les Savy Fav – Reformat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If you listen to the "dramatic reading" version of the song on Inches, it's pretty clearly about the captain of a submarine who carelessly kills his entire crew and is court-martialed into a public execution, by guillotine. | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Baudelaire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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also, what Shoegazed posted: If rape and arson, poison and the knife have not yet stiched their ludicrous designs onto the banal buckram of our fates, it is because our souls lack enterprise! |
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| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Baudelaire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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from a translation of "To the Reader" by Charles Baudelaire (from "The Flowers of Evil) But here among the scorpions and the hounds, the jackals, apes and vultures, snakes and wolves, monsters that howl and growl and squeal and crawl, in all the squalid zoo of vices, one is even uglier and fowler than the rest, although the least flamboyant of the lot, this beast would gladly undermine the earth and swallow all creation in a yawn; I speak of Boredom with with ready tears dreams of hangings as it puffs its pipe. Reader, you know this squeamish monster well, - hypocrite reader, - my alias, - my twin! |
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