| Portishead – Wandering Star Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The Epistle of Jude is an early example of a diss track. It is only 25 verses long, and some of those verses - the ones about fallen angels, tacked onto the end - were copied directly from the Book of Enoch. (Enoch was Noah's great-grandfather, but his Book didn't make the cut when the Bible was being assembled, because while it did do a good job of delineating the names and evil deeds of various 'fallen angels' it was seen by early Christians as being too lenient toward Jews.) In context, the verses that were quoted in this song were part of a larger rant by Jude, who felt 2nd-century Christians had strayed so far that they were like those who 'had been led out of Egypt' yet 'believed not' - i.e. the Jews. To that end, he heaped on them a bunch of epithets that had previously been hurled at the Jews by Christian writers: 'clouds without water', 'trees without fruit', and 'wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever'. It was the 'wandering' part that was relevant, not the 'star' part... Jude felt that the people who had wandered around the desert for 40 years had also wandered away from God despite, the story goes, being led out of the desert by God. In other words, The Epistle of Jude is, quite probably, Mel Gibson's favorite part of the Bible. The one borrowed characterization that is in the lyrics of this song - wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever - has become, over the last 1800 years, a poetic description of anyone who has lost their way. Through such usage it has long been decoupled from its literal source, occurring in writings that have nothing to do with religion whatsoever. |
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| Specimen – Beauty of Poison Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hebenon Vial is correct, and another correction needs to be made: "Shock (shock) there were two of us easing me gently out of my skin" The lyrics are easy to decipher on the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPX_L2_35Rw |
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| Calamine – these days Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song appears to be (at least tangentially) about Mia Zapata, the lead singer for Seattle punk band The Gits, who was raped and murdered in 1993. The opening lyrics of this song are place names in and around the Seattle area where she lived and was killed. | |
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