| Sunset Rubdown – Dragon's Lair Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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One aspect of this seems to be a bitter observation of humanity's urge to destroy that which is beautiful ("the swan among the pigeons of Barcelona's floor") and fantastic (the medieval quest imagery as well as the more personal whimsies of the narrator who claims to be 'blinded by confetti'). Note the contrast of album title with song title - Dragonslayer versus Dragon's Lair and the ambiguous, slurred way in which Krug sings "dragon's lair". To me, it's as if he's sarcastically saying 'oh you fcking hero' ("you're SUCH a champion") to a medieval-esque dragonslayer, ridiculing the assumption that dragons are there to be slain (in western mythology/fantasy) and by extension despairing over the expected and the conventions in life. He suggests humanity is absorbed in "a bigger kind of kill"; a destructive mentality which continues endlessly like the line itself and into an "oblivion" we cannot escape from, or do not wish to. While associations with humanity's physical destruction of the environment are certainly arguable, it seems that Krug is trying less to point out physical destruction and more to reject rationalism's destruction of mental refuges in the fantastic. Perhaps the greater truths those found in emotion and imagination? Either way he refuses to bind himself to the reality he finds himself in. |
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