| Scott Walker – 30 Century Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Pretty sure the "de Gaulle" reference is to his handshake with Henri Giraud in Casablanca in January of 1943. It's a pretty famous handshake. France caved to the Nazis and the subsequent Vichy Regime was basically just a puppet of the occupiers. Charles de Gaulle left France and waited out the war in the UK. He coordinated the French resistance in exile. The Vichy Regime both sentenced him to death, and later to prison, in absentia. General Giraud was a leader propped up by the West (mainly the U.S.) as the tides were turning in WWII. He was France's de facto leader at the end of the war. General de Gaul attended the conference in Casablanca under protest, and the word is Churchill practically had to force him to shake hands with Giraud. The whole thing was filmed by Frank Capra. It was basically just theater. Post War de Gaulle ousted Giraud in very little time. My read is that Scott takes a dim view of 'saran wrapping while you can'. IMO, the de Gaulle line sort of cements that. But I say 'my opinion', because I'm a firm believer that interpretation is everything. Most songwriters couldn't tell you what they meant for sure anyway. Songwriting isn't essay writing. And if they could, would it matter? It shouldn't. A song is how you respond to it. It isn't some sort of truth that is waiting to be discovered. Everyone has there own truths, and they are not wrong. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Degaulle-freefrench.png |
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| Scott Walker – 30 Century Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No, it was written specifically for Futurama. I'm kidding. Were you? If not, the song was on "Scott 3" which came out in 1969. It predates "The Life Aquatic" by 35 years. Not sure why the negative mark on your comment though, unless they thought you were just being a troll. |
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