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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – O Children Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the title is the key to the song, in an interview Cave said it was about his kids, and worrying what sort of world they would grow up in or something like that... |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Moonland Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The start of the song seems to be from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The character Billy Pilgrim - and Vonnegut himself in world war two - are one of the few survivors of the fire-bombing of dresden, because they were in a meat locker. When they come up, after two days of burning, the city was destroyed and described desolate and covered in ash, looking like the moon. |
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| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've always assumed this song was about the Chelsea Asylum, which was referred to simply as 'Chelsea'... The lyrics seem to make sense: warders, men in white coats, i don't want to go to Chelsea... also the reference to children and teachers - the military asylum housed war orphans... |
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