| Mark Knopfler – Punish The Monkey Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It is obvious to me that the monkey is a symbol for punishing someone completely innocent while letting the bad person go. The policeman is asking about a smoking gun. Why would he do that? Is the gun still smoking in his oppinion? Yes he seems to be corrupted, "He is asking about the facts". But who is the person described in the lyrics? It seems to me it is someone who has been overpowered |
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| Killswitch Engage – Rose of Sharyn Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I found this on Wikipedia: Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name's colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion.[1] Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch phrase in lyrics and verse. The name Rose of Sharon first appears in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible. According to an annotation of Song of Solomon 2:1 by the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, "Rose of Sharon" is a mistranslation of a more general Hebrew word for "crocus". - In the USA, the Rose of Sharon is the official flower of Phi Beta Chi, a national Lutheran-based Greek social letter sorority. - In Korea, the Rose of Sharon (mugunghwa or Hibiscus syriacus, "endless flower") is the historical symbol of the present and historic Yi Dynasty Korean royal family, and figures throughout domestic and royal architectural elements, particularly in roof tiles. - In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon (often called "Rosasharn") is a major character, the eldest daughter of the Joad family and the sister of the protagonist Tom Joad. Throughout much of the novel, she is depicted as fragile because of her pregnancy. - The Rose of Sharon is also referenced in the Kate Bush recording "The Song of Solomon" from her 1993 album The Red Shoes. - The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Killswitch Engage song "Rose of Sharyn" from their 2003 album The End of Heartache. - There is a song entitled "Rose of Sharon" on Xiu Xiu's 2005 album La Forêt. The lyrics seem to allude to both the Song of Solomon and to Steinbeck's novel. - The Ragnarok Online background music set includes a track called "Rose of Sharon". - The village of Rosharon, Texas is named after the "Rose Of Sharon" from the Cherokee Roses that grew near by. - The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Bob Dylan song "Caribbean Wind." The song appeared on the compilation album Biograph but was originally recorded during the sessions for Shot of Love. - Leonard Cohen in his original poem "The Traitor" (on which the song "The Traitor" is based) also refers to the Rose of Sharon. - Rose of Sharon is a homeless character in Sherman Alexie's short story "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," published April 21, 2003 in The New Yorker. - Sephardic Hebrew poetry from the 10th-15th century demonstrates prolific use of the חבצלת (ḥăḇaṣṣeleṯ) translated into English consistently as "Rose of Sharon"; there are a few renderings as "lily" (see Gate 47 of the Tahkemoni) .[2] The term and trope are found throughout the Sefer Tahkemoni by Yehuda Alharizi (1165-1225) and much of the poetic corpus of the Golden Age of Iberian Jewish belles lettres, which includes the works of such poets as Shmu'el HaNagid (993-1056), Moses Ibn Ezra (c.1055-after 1138), Yehuda Halevi (c.1075-1141), and Abraham Ibn Ezra (c.1093-c.1167) among others.[3] - Judah Robertson has an album entitled "Rose of Sharon". - "Rose of Sharon" is a song by Robert Hunter (Greatful Dead) released on his solo album Tiger Rose. |
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| Metallica – The End Of The Line Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Only me that thought this song is directed to George W Bush reaching the end of the line? "The slave becomes the master" =p That's a historical notion |
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| Metallica – Prince Charming Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Of coure James Hetfield has an urge for making cryptic messeges in songs about the Devil, without telling anyone about it in a single interview!? It's not because you are a devoted Christian that you interpret it that way? I find many parts of your interpretion confusing, and parts of your interpretion might still be true. I was googling and found this, whcih makes more sense to me: It is about a person who was rejected by his parents. And forced to become a "Bad boy" to survive, the character is the presonification of all the evil things in the world, and he is just saying to his mother "You brought me to to this world, you don´t take care of me when I was young and now see what I have become". "There's a dirty needle in your child" "Haha, stick me" "Empty bottles still in hand, still dead" "Still me" "I'm the suit and tie that bleeds the street" "And still wants more" "I'm the .45 that's in your mouth" "I'm a dirty, dirty whore" "Yeah, look it's me" "The one who can't be free" "Much too young to focus, but to old to see" "Hey, look it's me" "When no one wants to see" "See what you brought this world" "Just what you want to see" End of quote Let me add what I think. The dirty needle is that the child (the main character of the lyrics) is taking drugs, since it's connected to haha stick me this is very obvious and I dont get how that would be your explanation that this interpretion is wrong. And about "black cloud ahead, that's me" is symbolic for how he has now become. Peace =) |
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