| Theatre of Tragedy – A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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he's much older and shes very beautiful. i believe she flirted (my words are but a twist) with him. leading him on but nothing serious. perhaps she came to tell him shes getting married to someone else. he hates her for leading him on and is scorned that she met someone and tells her to go to him (go to thy tryst!).. but i dont think she was ever interested in him. basically hes an old guy stuck in the friend zone. but he wants her or never to see her again. 1st verse: a beautiful summer breezy warm morning Ye beholdest but the shadow: him calling her evil (her inner self is darkness) To and fro, save hither, Is thy love: my love for you is everywhere, except here A hamlet for a slothful vassal - a masterpiece (beautiful woman) for a lazy wench (her ugly soul) thief of a plot: stealing his wife's grave plot (she led him on, but wont marry him. he'll die alone) A dotard gaffer, I daresay..a sapling not! - silly old man stop being a baby Even the orb cannot help me melt the ice?" - even the warmth of the summer sun cannot warn the coldest he shows her. |
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| The Pogues – The Body of an American Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[maybeanonymous:21902] interesting, but im going to disagree a little "the cadillac outside the house" - an american car im thinking this is in America and the Irish family came to America for the funeral/wake its an irish wake they're going to party. agreed. people were dicks? no. i disagree. Jim Dwyer was successful in America. c'mon, dude he slashed the champ to the ground. he loved the USA. period. there is definitely irony in "the free born man" and "being sent to war" im thinking vietnam war and the military draft. Cadillac was founded back to 1902 so it could possibly be an earlier war. "This morning on the harbour, When I said goodbye to you" he's saying goodbye to his love, America (Lady Liberty). his love is not a wife (as others suggested).... its his country as he leaves on a ship to fight for her. "I remember how I swore. That I'd come back to you one day" (he did. in a casket. back to America he came) perhaps the meaning behind the song is.... if you love something so much, it can kill you. (or you'll die for it) Jim perspective may be he died for keeping America free. but, perhaps you are right that the narrator may see Jim as a fool for the hypocrisy of the "free" term by being "forced" to war. |
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