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| Patti Smith – Summer Cannibals Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Patti Smith is a poet and a goddess, I would never be so obtuse to claim that I knew exactly what she means in any of her song and can only say what they mean to me. I got Gone Again in 1996 when I was 15 and this song was my favorite on the album. The images I got listening to it were like something from a Flannery O'Connor story. I pictured in my mind a radical southern-style tent revival compleate with snakes, speaking in tongues, full-on charasmatic pentecostal imagry and the singer was a sinner or a lost soul who wandered in not knowing what to expect but being overtaken by fear at the sight and finally giving in to the madness. It is likely that my upbringing in the Bible belt had something to do with it. No matter what the song is actually about, or if it was Patti or Sonic's vision, it is an amazing song thats brilliance is overlooked. |
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| Of Monsters And Men – Dirty Paws Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is just a simple story performed to sound like a traditional Icelandic folktale. I don't know if it directly lifted from a folktale or not but as far as I know it doesn't have anything to do with the Asatru religion, which I used to study some when I was younger. What I don't understand is how this has fuck all to do with WWII. It seems like a lot of people are obsessed with it, the Nazis and all that nastiness. I guess Uncle Adolf is the "Queen Bee" ha-ha. |
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| Bad Religion – Anesthesia Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I see that this reply is late but, what the fuck nonsense is this about a lost delivery man killed by the Manson Family? No such victim exists. Maybe some of you are confused about who Steven Parent was. He was killed in his car outside of the Tate house and was definately in the wrong place, at the wrong time but he was there visiting the groundskeeper, William Garretson and trying to sell him a radio. He wasn't even killed by one of the girls; he was shot by Tex Watson. Someone wrote that "1234567 All Good Children Go to Heaven" was written in the victims blood...it wasn't. That phrase does have s tie-in to the Manson Family but it was painted on a cupboard door at the Spahn Ranch. Anyway, as far as what the song is about, I have no idea. I always assumed it was about drugs. |
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