| Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade – Buzzards of Green Hill Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[pevsfreedom:5345] I should add I meant "justice needs to be fed" in the last part about the piggies instead of 'just'. | |
| Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade – Buzzards of Green Hill Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've listened to this song many times and think I got it down. The Fuzzy Wuzzy bear thing is just relating to the small town mentality and innocence of the children, everyone's just hanging out and doing their thing. He didn't give a good hot damn refers to the people in the town not giving a damn about the outside world. The chorus gets a bit darker as the song goes on. The verse regarding the cat is just about a kid playing as kids do, chasing a cat around (not advised), etc. The cat's story is ended sadly by some city driver 'driving like a bastard'. The buzzards of Green Hill get fat on road kill (the cat in this instance). Next up is another 'bastard' who decides to drive drunk and kill a mother and a child. The little piggy line is more about the 'Fuzzy Wuzzy' town folk being tired of taking shit from the city folk, and they won't "stand alone", and are gonna bring it to these 'city bastards', and the buzzards of Green Hill are gonna get fat on the road kill (which will be the city folk when the Little Piggies are done with them [just needs to be fed]). I suppose this song can be as deep or shallow as you want it to be, I like my interpretation. |
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| The Doors – When The Music's Over Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I disagree with most of this. I don't think the song is really about Jim at all. He was a firm 'believer' in Native American heritage and their ways of life, just read his poetry. I think this song is more of a 'swan song' about the Earth, and his dismay for the future of our lovely planet. The part about the butterfly screaming is to be taken literal I think. A butterfly is something you want to look at because it is beautiful. The part about it 'screaming' is Jim looking through the eye's of those who have 'plundered and ripped her and bit her' in regard to the Earth. He's taking the voice of the greedy pioneers who have shaped the planet. "We want the world and we want it NOW" kind of proves this to me. I think this song is to be taken very literally, and see no instances really of Jim referring to his own life or death. The title of the song in my opinion refers more to the end of our human expeditions here on Earth. We will take everything we can and leave nothing, and when the 'music' (that we make here on Earth by simply living; our every day lives, etc.) is over, we will have nothing left except for the end we've created for ourselves. Like I said I don't think this song is about death at all, except perhaps the death of the beauty of Earth that man has caused by his expeditions and curiosity. "Save us Jesus" has two meanings. For one it refers to those who think we can plunder the Earth to our will because Jesus will simply make everything right again. I take this as a shot at religion. I also take it literally. Jim sees no answers from the physical realities and in a final plea screams to Jesus to help our planet. "Music is your only friend, until the end" is like I mentioned earlier. The music (living here on Earth) is great, until we ruin it for ourselves and our children. "With your ear down, to the ground" refers to Jim hearing a sound that he thinks might be a unified resurgence of love for the Earth, only to be shaken from this hopeful fantasy by putting his ear to the ground. He hears the selfishness of those on Earth, and realizes the planet is doomed. That's my take. Of course all of these songs are up to speculation, but I see this as more of an environmental action song then a song about death. |
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