| Tom Waits – Clap Hands Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Awesome song!!! well my interpritation of this song is; it's a song about the common man being sent to war, the fireman the conductor and how these people, when and if they come back are never the same again, or sane! "we can an always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal" is refering to how, in times of war, the wealthy are content to do the donky work, whilst the working class are being killed and maimed in action. "Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar" could this be the sound of war. "A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat" Reference to a palladin, which is a sword fighter/soldier. "And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at" could this be a reference to the fact that, the ice-cream man no longer drives by, as he too has met an unlucky end? |
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| Tom Waits – Clap Hands Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Awesome song!!! well my interpritation of this song is; it's a song about the common man being sent to war, the fireman the conductor and how these people, when and if they come back are never the same again, or sane! "we can an always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal" is refering to how, in times of war, the wealthy are content to do the donky work, whilst the working class are being killed and maimed in action. "Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar" could this be the sound of war. "A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat" Reference to a palladin, which is a sword fighter/soldier. "And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at" could this be a reference to the fact that, the ice-cream man no longer drives by, as he too has met an unlucky end? |
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