| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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katrinacara, No need to be so apologetic. I think you were right on. He seems to want out of this Babylon that he put himself in. It reads to me like a love song with a spiritual undertone, as so many secular songs are intended to be. In the Old Testament, they also talk about the fact that the walls of Babylon were built with man-made bricks and tar, as opposed to more natural resources, and this was not pleasing to God. So, when you read the references to all of the man-made things he is describing that are making him miserable, it makes sense that he is framing his current emotional/mental state as a type of Babylon. Not to mention the red to green, green to red, red to blue references. God intentionally confused the people of Babylon once he deemed this city to be so self-glorifying in their unified worship of this city. |
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| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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When I read the lyrics of this song, I think of a young boy remembering the innocence of growing up in a small town with parents who once loved each other. It seems as though this boy is setting the expectation for his girlfriend that, at some point, he will fall prey to his father's selfish (and maybe adulterous) ways and will leave the ones who love him behind. When I envision this "place" where they can go untouched by men, I think of an open rural hill where they can still enjoy the innocence of their youth, knowing that the clouds are coming to disrupt the relationships in his life. "This tired old man that we elected king" seems to be the ideological view of the husband/father of the household. The lawyers cleaning up the mess, the plowshares into swords and the daddy's lies could be this man's way of trying to make a clean and heartless break from the family he left behind without showing any accountability or accepting any responsibility. Near the end when the boy asks for one last kiss, I get the feeling that he is caving into this self-proclaimed inevitability of stepping into his father's footsteps of broken promises. He wants to remember this scene, but even if she offers up her best defense, this is his fate. He's telling her that this moment is the end of the innocence. I have no idea if that is Don Henley's meaning, but that is how I interpreted it, which is what I love about music...different meanings to different people. |
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