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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hold On to Yourself Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song carries both chaos and inevitability. The fast tempo of the music gives a feeling of unstoppability. The pendulum keeps swinging, inevitably. But the destination is chaos - life and fire and lunacy - and it is unescapable. The frantic, manic background screeching is like a barely restrained psychosis, threatening to rise to the surface and overrun its unstable mind. "Hold on to yourself" lest the insanity wins. But it is going to win, eventually. Nick Cave's novel "The Death of Bunny Munro" has the same sense of inevitable destruction, a 'train wreck in slow motion'.
"Jesus makes the flowers grow all around the scene of her collision" - beautifully ironic, as it was Jesus that caused the collision, ie. it was God's will that the crash occurred. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I can't help thinking of Jim Morrison from this song... especially of 'The Hitchhiker' from An American Prayer. I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live recently, and there was one bit of this song that sounded just like the intro to Riders on the Storm. |
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| U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ick, sorry about the messy links. Seems there's no way to post a link here? Anyway, google the songs if you're interested. |
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| U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Nick Cave also has a couple of songs based on Wim Wenders' movies "Wings of desire" and "Faraway, so close": check out Cassiel's Song [ http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858608692 , http://www.last.fm/music/Nick+Cave/_/Cassiel%27s+Song ] and Faraway, So Close [ http://www.metrolyrics.com/faraway-so-close-lyrics-nick-cave.html , http://www.last.fm/music/Nick+Cave/_/Faraway%2C+So+Close! ] |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Oh My Lord Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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" A guy wearing plastic antlers presses his bum against the wall", the hairdresser's scissors, the frantic musical climax: you can feel reality crumbling around him as insanity creeps in. Wow. This must be how Philip K Dick felt. |
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