| Jethro Tull – Cold Wind To Valhalla Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| i think the point is more that the Valkyries are sent to retrieve dead heroes for Valhalla, but they're heading back empty-handed because there ARE no true heroes anymore. | |
| Jethro Tull – Kelpie Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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These lyrics are incorrect, especially the chorus and the last line. I suspect the person transcribing them didn't know much about the kelpie legends. I've tried to correct them before, but apparently it didn't take. Here's the correct version: "There was a warm wind with the high tide on the south side of the hill, when a young girl went a-walking and I followed with a will. "'Good day to you, my fine young lady, with your lips so sweetly full. May I help you comb your long hair, sweep it from that brow so cool?' CHORUS: "Up! Ride with the kelpie! I'll steal your soul to the deep. If you don't ride with me while the devil's free, I'll ride with somebody else! "Well, I'm a man when I'm feeling the urge to step ashore, so I may charm you - not alarm you - tell you all fine things, and more. CHORUS Say goodbye to all your dear kin for they hate to see you go in your young prime, to this place of mine in the still loch far below... CHORUS x 2 |
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| Jethro Tull – Kelpie Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The only problem is that the kelpie in the song is male and seducing away young women. The actual lyrics to the song make that very clear. ;) | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I don't think it's about not taking the Bible seriously, given that there are actual demons in the narrative and the signs of the Second Coming DO begin to appear at the end. I think it's more about our capacity for self-deception and complacency, about reading what we want to hear into the things we're told -- the demons give them an ominous, enigmatic explanation and the couple first misinterprets it as an assurance that there will be no Second Coming (so there's nothing to worry about and they can do as they please), then fails to think any further about it. They mire themselves in the banal, the material, and the selfish, and grow apart. So when the signs of the Second Coming begin to appear the narrator is suddenly confronted with the nagging fear that he may have misinterpreted the demons' words -- that the demons meant Jesus IS coming, but when he passes by this time he won't be coming back to pick up any stragglers. There will be no "Third Coming" and the two lovers will find themselves unprepared and unworthy... After all, why did they seek wisdom from demons in the first place? There's also the possibility that the demons were simply lying and the couple believed them because they wanted to believe them. So when the signs of the Second Coming appear, the narrator realizes he might have wasted his life and tries to reassure himself that Jesus isn't coming and the Judgment isn't at hand. Hence the repetition at the end -- he's repeating it as a mantra or a prayer, trying to convince himself that the signs don't mean what he fears they mean. |
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