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| Lou Reed – Perfect Day Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Source please. I have countless articles, books and interviews in which Lou Reed states, quite explicitly, that it is NOT about heroin. Heroin was about Heroin. |
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| Lou Reed – Perfect Day Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Sorry... not a song about Heroin whatsoever. Lou Reed has gone on record countless times to state that it is a song about a jilted lover who is obsessing over his ex. He wrote a song about Heroin and, oddly enough, called it "Heroin". He has continuously pointed this out to show that he doesn't do ambiguous. |
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| Death in June – Black Radio Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Coldwar is correct to point this out. The song Black Radio is, in fact, about the Black Front which was a revolutionary National Socialist (Or, as Strasser called it: Social Nationalism) movement formed by Otto Strasser who left the NSDAP after accusing Hitler of betraying the NSDAP's socialist roots and being a power hungry monster (History speaks for itself. lol). This rebellion resulted in the "Night of the Long Knives" in which Hitler and his sidekick, Himmler, purged the party of anyone who threatened, or was perceived to be a threat to, Hitler's quest for ultimate power and iron grip upon the party. Amongst that particular purge's victims was Gregor Strasser, Otto's brother. Otto managed to escape to Czechoslovakia and set up a Black Front propaganda machine there, circulating leaflets and sneaking them over the border into Germany whilst also setting up a radio station known as "Black Radio" before being chased out of Czechoslovakia by the Gestapo. The Gestapo hounded Otto Strasser for many years, attempting to silence him, and gave him the codeword "Nemesis" declaring him an enemy of the Reich. The symbol used by the Black Front was/is the Hammer and Sword in red, crossed and placed on a black background, hence the line: "The Hammer and the Sword, take it, it's yours." |
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