| Jethro Tull – Aqualung Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[pieguy3:22839] That is what I love about this song. It shifts back and forth between the subject just being some gross pervert, the perception at a glance, and the sympathetic look at a lonely old man dying slowly in the gutter. | |
| Jethro Tull – Aqualung Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[pieguy3:22838] That is what I love about this song. It shifts back and forth between the subject just being some gross pervert, the perception at a glance, and the sympathetic look at a lonely old man dying slowly in the gutter. | |
| Tom Waits – Soldier's Things Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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One thing about this song that I hadn't noticed before is that it feels like the song gives this soldier's cause of death. "It's good transportation, but the brakes aren't so hot." The delivery on the second part of that is what made me think that this might have to do with how this soldier died. There's a sort of sad hesitation. But the vehicle comes up again, too. "You can pound that dent out on the hood" So I'm thinking this solider died in a car crash, leaving someone behind. And in a sort of feeling of abandonment the person they left behind is selling all their memories of the soldier. Going through the items is painting a picture of the person as they sell what they have left of them. |
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| Tom Waits – Come on Up to the House Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Boilermaker:16112] I believe you're taking this song a bit too much at face value. Tom Waits loves using biblical imagery, but he's not the bible-thumping sort. This is the same man who wrote "God's Away on Business", the tongue-in-cheek "Chocolate Jesus" "The House" at face value, does represent the church, and for person-to-person interpretation can mean just that, but at large represents surrender. Surrender to God, or just surrender to forces that are out of your control, be they circumstance, the lot you've been dealt in life, or unforseen disaster. Not surrender as in giving up on life, but giving up the illusion of total control. The only things that you can see is all that you lack, so focus on what you have rather than what you don't. Come down off the cross, we can use the wood, stop wallowing in your self pity and make yourself useful. The world is not my home I'm just passing through, life is temporary so enjoy the journey and don't focus on the destination. No light in the tunnel no irons in the fire, sometimes you find yourself feeling without hope, and with no options left to you. You're singing lead soprano in a junkman's choir, jumping at any old chance at salvation with gusto even if that chance is a sketchy one. Life seems nasty, the seas are stormy, there's nothing you can do, the world is not being kind and you feel like you can't do anything about it. You are whipped by the forces that are inside you, depression, anxiety, and expectations of a warm and welcoming world are not being met. You know you should surrender but you can't let go, you are unwilling to take the world as it is and continue to try to make it something it's not. Tom Waits is not an Evangelist, or a Christian of any kind. Tom Waits is nonpartisan on the business of God. On one track he'll sing "Don't you know there ain't no Devil, there's just God when he's drunk", then he'll sing "Hang on Saint Christoper, don't let me go", then he'll sing about sexually promiscuous nuns. So no, Waits is not pushing Jesus here. |
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