| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It never ceases to amaze me how people are able to read the meaning they want into almost anything. I find this interpretation a bit of a stretch, for instance, but then - since it is in line with currently fashionable thinking - many would find it quite plausible. And then again, most ardent 'anti-theists' I came across have serious trouble admitting that some of the worst atrocities that committed in the 20th century happened under militantly atheistic regimes and that paradigm 'power corrupts' applies to people irrespective of their religious or ideological adherences. As for the song - it is open to multiple layers of meaning, but the most evident is alienation, loneliness, weight of your own problems - something closer to the frozen heart of Hell in Dante's Inferno, than any political statement. Although drug addiction and people who died alone in the Gulags of the frozen north, often after being denounced to the KGB by their next door neighbours, are the themes that also spring to mind. |
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