| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hallelujah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think when he wrote it he was having serious problems overcoming drug addiction. Various people have various reactions to various drugs, but I'm also pretty sure before No More Shall We Part came out he was suffering either a lack of creative inspiration or just a form of writers block as a result of either withdrawl from the drugs or a direct result of the drugs themselves (im a bit hazy about it, but there's something to do with drugs). To me, "My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb And my piano crouched in the corner of my room With all its teeth bared" furthers this idea - he is unable to write or play due to craving, so he leaves the saftey of his home in order to find a drug dealer to help him write again. "There rose before me a little house With all hope and dreams kept within A woman`s voice close to my ear Said, "Why don`t you come in here?"" He reaches the threshhold of his dealer, and is tempted to accept their offer of whatever drug. "All hope and dreams lay within" surely hinting at the potential highs achievable. However, he is aware that the "nurse" - presumably the side of his consciousness which wants him to overcome his addiction, or perhaps just the expectations of society - has helped him with the bad side of the drugs; "But with her hot cocoa and her medication My nurse had been my one salvation" and so decides to return to the safe and secure confines of what is social normality (journeying back from a place remote in the countryside to the town: i'm guessing going to see a drug dealer isnt a highstreet affair). The tears he cries on the way back are perhaps instilled by a sense of loss - although he is relieved to have made the choice he did ("hallelujah"), he did quite like drugs, and decides to bury the tears associated with them deep underground where they cant affect him, in a symbolic gesture. I dont know. I'm only 16. I cant begin to scratch the surface of the depth of nick cave's lyrics. |
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| Vetiver – Angels' Share Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the blood run warm down kate's head? i never really sat down and listened to the lyrics properly for a long time. when i realised what the subject was i felt a bit chilled. |
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