| Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song always reminds me of the Eddie Murphy routine about how you have a fight with your woman and she goes on vacation to the Bahamas, smokes a big Bahama joint and fucks some guy named Dexter St. Jacques. | |
| Coil – Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Great song with a lot of allusions. The lyrics obviously reference Pasolini being killed at Ostia (he was run over three times by his own car). "There's honey in the hollows", "lion lies down", "out of the strong came forth sweetness" etc. reference the part in the Book of Judges where Samson kills a lion with his bare hands and honey comes out of it: "Out of the eater came something to eat/ out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judges 14:14). The White Cliffs of Dover is a notorious suicide spot in England. "Throw his bones over the White Cliffs of Dover" is probably a play on the old Vera Lynn song "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover." "Killed to keep the world turning" refers to the alternative theory that Pasolini's death was actually a political assassination (he was a Marxist and at that time in Italy, "the Years of Lead," there was a great deal of violence between far-right and far-left groups). I also like the way Jhonn Balance associates himself with Pasolini ("Murder me in Ostia"). He has a great voice and he really sings the fuck out of this song. |
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