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| Pixies – Here Comes Your Man Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Definitely a VU/Lou Reed inspired track 110%, like Waiting For My Man plus Here She Comes Now. I love when they do that, sort of like how Bowie-esque Cactus is (and then Bowie actually covered it, which was neat). I like it when bands show their influences.
The atomic bomb thing is illuminating! |
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| Immortal Technique – Dance With The Devil Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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But there's nothing stopping it from meaning it figuratively in the other contexts. When he says "they killed his mom and never spoke about it," that means they killed the girl on the roof and then went about their business. He's just keeping the nameless victim mentioned as a person. Or it could even mean they killed his real mom as retaliation for him quitting the crew. |
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| Immortal Technique – Dance With The Devil Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't believe you're supposed to think that it was literally his mom who they raped. After all, it says "he remembers how she USED to come home late." It's psychological, he realized that it wasn't just a nameless victim, it was someone exactly like his mom back when he was younger. It happens all the time in movies, somebody's face will show up on a different body as a metaphor. When Tech says things like "I raped his mom too" he doesn't mean that person was literally his mom, he's including himself in Billy's personal downfall and acknowledging the rape victim as not being faceless. Maybe I'm wrong but I think it makes more sense that way.
One of the best songs ever. |
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