| DJ Shadow – Six Days Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Gypsy5:32736] Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging). DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song. I am assuming that with his editing out parts of the lyrics, DJ Shadow wanted to include the, as I said, usually an unwilling warrior, the conscript foot soldier, in the list of the victims of the war. Thus with the summit-to-war flow of the story you get a tale how old men throw young men to be connon fodder to feed their own insanity. Wednesday: We'll all go running underground And we'll be listening for the sound Its only Wednesday In your shelter dimly lit Take some wool and learn to knit Cos its a long day Friday: Although that shelter is your home A living space you have outgrown It's only Friday As you come out to the light Can your eyes behold the sight It must be doomsday Saturday: Ain't it funny how men think They made the bomb, they are extinct Its only Saturday I think tomorrow's come I think its too late I think tomorrow's come I think its too late Make tomorrows come I think it's too late So basically, as DJ Shadow cut it, it's equally, or even more so about the foot soldiers. Without Wednesday, Friday and Saturday the song is devoid of it's feminine/civilan angle (knitting, being in the shelter, "how _men_ think") and Thursday becomes a very vivid image of a soldier in a trench that was just hit by a bomb, shell or granade and who is recovering from the shock. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Well to me this song was really about personal rather than political/ideology subjects. It's very clearly about friendships that were sundered (gaps that grow between our lives) over things "said in a different life", which despite seeming meaningless now cannot be gotten over (the everlasting unforgiven). It's an appeal to an old friend to forgive (the song also implies that the author was the offender in whatever squander ended his friendship), so that the friendship can be reforged, the time that passed doesn't matter (the second verse), as people we always choice and obligation to build bridges over voids between friends. |
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