| Coil – Tattooed Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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these lyrics are great not just because they present lyrical prowess, but also because it can be interpreted in so many ways. I see it as the lyrical ego's relation to himself, with the multitude of decisions, and indecisions, thoughts, questions and doubts, pains and memories which populate his personality so insistently that he becomes confused, and he's divided in multiple characters. and that man whom he loves or hates it's just the same man. "This is me here now Pining like a dog, whining like a dog in a thick harbour fog Waiting for a ship Making sick And when the ship comes In trouble His trouble will begin " Here he attempts to reaffirm himself, get out of the confusion, awaits the moment of sanity, in which he will get rid of the old self. With this attempt to get rid of the old/unsatisfactory self, he loses a part of his integrity too. "There's a man laying down somewhere... Somewhere" |
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