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| The Libertines – You're My Waterloo Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Actually I remember some kind of story I read somewhere some time ago about Carl having a 'thing' for knives. He had this special knife which even had a name (Mister... something?). I even tried to google it and just found that in 2004 Peter was arrested for the possession of an engraved flick knife he planned to give to Carl for his birthday (as a kind of reconciliation gesture?). Though I usually don't like to identify the I of a song with the singer and the You with the so to speak second-best, in the case of 'You're My Waterloo', it seems plausible that it's a song to Carl by Peter. But still I don't understand more than half of the allusions in the song so I don't really feel able to judge. (Anyway, if I wrote a song for my best friend, I would also not use the images of anyone else but of ourselves risking / accepting that he would be the only one to understand it.) |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy In New York Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really wonder why I'm apparently the first one to feel as if the song somehow refers to the film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. Mainly because of the weather report-thingy. I always associated the line "I get the news I need on the weather report" with a certain disinterest in what's happening in the world and an individualistic attitude (in the sense that the I-narrator just cares about his own plans for the next days, which are dependant on the weather, but not about what the rest of mankind is doing). The main character Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' always visits this guy in prison to give him the "weather reports" which are some coded messages from his drug gang. (And he's called Sally TOMato which could allude to the mentioned Tom in the song...) But watching the film today, I discovered some more parallels. The film is set in NY and somehow Paul Varjak (PAUL!) becomes the first "living boy" for Holly as he's the first one she feels any other connection to than the interest in his wealth.
Also "getting the plane on time" is a topic in both the film and the song. And the forth-time repetition of "shine" in the song seems to me like building up a conscious contrast to the end scenes of 'Breakfast at Tiffanny's' which take place in a heavy downpour.
Of course, my interpretation is kinda incomplete and I hardly believe that Paul Simon thought of the film while writing the song. I mean the story about him writing to Art Garfunkel being left alone in NY kinda makes sense... but anyway I thought these pecularities were worth sharing. :) |
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