| Delta Rae – Bottom Of the River Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe that in this song they're actually singing about rebelling against God and escaping his wrath. The river reference in this song could be about either baptism or the drowning of witches: redemption and damnation. The religious references to God in this song seem to portray him as an antagonist... a burning creature coming for your 'first born son.' For those that are familiar with the story of Moses, this is referring to the 10th and final plague of Egypt, a punishment by God towards the Pharaoh for disobeying his commandments, where he killed all the firstborn children of the land. By fleeing to the river (where the tides are turning), you're given the idea that she might be able to save her son from God's wrath. By plunging him deep into the river, he will be 'washed clean.' Then.... "Don't you lift him, let him drown alive....Let that fever make the water rise And let the river run dry" Ultimately, I think they're singing about her bringing her son down to the bottom of a river to 'wash him clean' of his 'sins,' so that God can't touch him anymore. Also, the river could serve as a symbol that the son's 'sickness' (his fever) burns away and dries up. |
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| Cake Bake Betty – 64 Little White Things Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think this is simply a song about cannibalism.... In this song she's voicing her discontentment being around all these "money motivated people," how she wants to escape them, and how she's worried (metaphor of "her teeth falling out") that they're going to use her and then dispose of her..... It's a song against certain people obsessed with consuming as much as they can to the point that they'll exploit whoever they have to (like Betty) to gain more. So when she talks about them "eating her," I think what she means is that they feed on people who are "weaker" (aka people who aren't as motivated by money and power as they are) Hense the lines: and I hate their trees and their yards that they wrap with and their plastics in the greens and their white houses and goddamn white teeth and the chemical stress on the hair that they squeeze I hate this sex and the brats that they breed, etc. All these are descriptors of the upper middle or upper-upper classes: dying their teeth and hair, keeping their homes very uniform and well-kept, their kids being typically more sheltered/spoiled, etc. |
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