| Tom Waits – Frank's Wild Years Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"Never could stand that dog." I love it how this last sentence has a double meaning. It could be the narrator's feelings towards Frank. But it can also mean that Frank directed all his anger towards the dog over the years and that the ugly chihuahua finally sparked his rage and made him feel as if burning everything down was a just act of retribution. "It's all the dog's fault!" A convenient scapegoat to push away the feeling that in fact it's all his own fault by settling down in the valley in the first place. |
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| David Bowie – You Feel So Lonely You Could Die Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me this seems like a very hostile song towards Morrissey and everything he's done, artistically and as a person. Morrissey's spikey insults towards his former friend, Bowie. His presumably emotional lyrics that contain dark accusations, scorn, arrogance, subtle hostile references to family, friends and fellow artists: all left behind as 'slips of paper' throughout his songs. Morrissey made enemies everywhere, hence the loneliness, which is a big theme in his work. David seems to me as if he's through with him. He's ready to say farewell, and wishes Morrissey a fitting lonely death. The silent gun being this song, followed by suicide out of misery, loneliness and being forgotten. The song contains the outro of Rock 'n Roll Suicide. Morrissey used that outro in I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday, which Bowie covered. Quite a 'slip of paper left in the park' aswell. He uses Morrissey's technique (stolen from Oscar Wilde) to threaten and accuse him like he did throughout his whole carreer. The Soviet spy setting is mainly the cover up story. A metaphor for how artists hide secret messages for eachother like spies. |
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