| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Loom of the Land Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is the song that made me fall in love with Cave´s music once upon a time when it was released and still to this day it brings a lovely heaviness upon my chest and tears in my eyes... and so on... Some people suggest that the character actually kills the girl at the end of the song, but doesn´t necessarily have to be the case, does it? Although it´s a melancholy and eerie piece, not every song Cave writes is a murder ballad... Trivia: The line "the elms and the poplars / were turning their backs" is taken from Vladimir Nabokov´s "Lolita", Cave´s no 1 favourite novel. |
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| Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Couldn´t the "hoisting of the rag" also refer to the image of the white flag, someone hoisting a tattered white rag to mediate a peace? | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Couldn´t it also be that the character simply is trying to convince himself that he´s "not afraid to die", but, in the last minute of his life, fails to do this? This, in a way, also suggests that he´s guilty, of course... The original version of the song has such an infernal, agonized quality to it! The acoustic version (along with Johnny Cash´s) has more of an epic (almost heroic) heavy feeling. Both great in their own way, don´t think I´d be able to choose... |
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