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| The Police – King Of Pain Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I've seen it mentioned that the fourth verse has references to Oedipus Rex (Oedipus being the king with his eyes torn out/the blind man searching for a shadow of a doubt), but I also think that the second two lines of the verse could be referencing the story of Midas and the Golden Touch? He would have turned his bed to hold, and he died of starvation because when he tried to eat his food it turned to gold (so he might choke on a crust of bread--this one is a little bit more of a stretch). Both Oedipus and Midas were mythological Greek KINGS who suffered very PAINFUL and ironic downfalls. |
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| Ludo – Safe In The Dark Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is about someone who is always helping his friends with their problems. He notices what's wrong with them ("I see it in your eyes") and always offers to help. He insists on helping everyone else, but hides anything that might be wrong in his own life. The lines "so where are you guys then?" And "when are you coming home?" Are him finally trying to ask someone to be there for him, but when that will inconvenience his friends, he plays it off as just casual inquiry. ("How are all your shows?") The last three lines of the third verse, they realize that he was trying to ask for help, and confront him about that, but at this point he can't help but insist that nothing's wrong. "Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark" is him saying that that's his job, which he's taken on himself, since he tends to bring up the other person's problems and offer to help with them. "Forces unseen pulling strings in the dark" could be an address to god, making the "everyone wants to feel safe in the dark" after it not a statement of his own job, but a plea to some deity to make all of their lives better because he can no longer handle this duty he's taken on. After this line, "everyone" includes himself, which it hadn't before. |
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