| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Kindness of Strangers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"The kindness of strangers" is most famously the last line of 'a streetcar named desire', where it's spoken by Blanche Dubois after being commited to an asylum by the man who raped her, causing her mental breakdown. In a song about a woman being raped and murdered, it's presumably meant with the same sense of bitter irony. The line was 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers', implying she's also at the mercy of the unkindness of strangers. It's the same with Mary Bellows, following her heart's desire to see the sea, and finding herself alone, she reaches out and unlatches the door in the hope that Richard Slade will enter and be kind. Clearly he wasn't. |
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