| The Smashing Pumpkins – Knights of Malta Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I am intrigued by the other interpretation of this song, it is an amazing song for sure. Here are some of my ideas to add that maybe can be helpful to put together some puzzle pieces furthermore. It would surely be nice to just ask the song writer because I can personally say, as a researcher, I am very interested in how the songwriter is getting these ideas, or at least how I am seeing the symbology in the lyrics, surely. Firstly, Malta is in Greece, and the Greek ways of life inspired many, and is an important part of history, and the development of it. The song could simply be about rebirth but I can't help but add my own notes to this. During Cleopatra's reign in Egypt, where she worked with serpents, not as a weapon for your fist yet instead as a tool in her hand for finding liars as she made great decisions and needed to filter out liars with them. Scarabs were symbolic of rebirth, a very important part of the religion at the time, and it sounds like the scarab for your mouth is symbolic of food for rebirth, even a serpent is seen as symbolic for rebirth in ancient Egypt and eating its own tail to explain such. At the same time we have Julius Caesar over in Rome, Cleopatra's husband. Julius Caesar, took Greek's ideas to Rome, built an empire, and a strong military. Julius Caesar was supposed to go off to fight more wars, but as he became Dictator of Rome, he made enemies as well, gaining too much power. Some will say he was assassinated by his rivals, but there is much evidence that says Julius Caesar and Jesus (translation: Hail Zeus, the Greek name for God at the time) were the same. Caesar/ Jesus decided to tell people "Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God". Julius Caesar even thought "Jesus" was so influential that Jesus' face was on his money (odd, right?! doesn't that say a lot right there?!) But anyhow, Caesar faced backlash as he tried to tell people they didn't need to go to war, that they needed God and faith instead, but ended up on a cross being crucified instead and thus was the "but no soldier comes"... There are so many more symbols in this song that lead me to really wonder what the song writer wants us to know, but this is pretty amazing to a researcher and scholar like myself. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Knights of Malta Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Synchron:49092] I really appreciate your interpretation of these lyrics. I am adding my own as I feel you are pretty much dead on, yet I can add a little bit of history that may help with the symbology of this... whether I am correct or not it definitely makes the songs meanings more interesting to ponder upon. | |
| The Doors – L.A. Woman Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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These interpretations are all wonderful but I don't think anyone will ever truly know the absolute, true meanings to these lyrics for so many reasons. It's like interpreting a painting when you're not the artist, you can try but you'll never fully understand it... or going to a foreign land, there will still be loss of true communication and understanding (happens to us everyday in our own families, actually). I used to get super stoned (where analyzing comes so naturally) and just let the interpretations flow into my mind. I was understanding it more and more, I felt I had hit the nail on the head when I realized, "oh, he's trying to enlighten ppl's views on a lifestyle so shunned by society... He's talking about prostitutes and how society shits on them even though they are actually both the lucky little lady in the city of light looking for fame and also another lost angel in the city of night (up to them though to tell us how we view them) where the cops in their cars (the most hypocritical person, judging and arresting prostitutes) have their own relationship and love with the prostitutes. Society and the law treats them wrong, these are just lost angels whom you could not begin to fathom how alone they really must feel and are. L.A. has tons of prostitutes and he knows it's a great scene to use for this song as the audience, via the media, has grown to understand that the cities are where you'll find them and what city can the Doors identify with the most?! L.A.! Yeah, that's my take... Get stoned and let your imagination free to explain. Omg, I have fully unravelled the soft parade and holy crap, that song is now my absolute favorite due to the crazy hidden messages in that song!! Time to go share my thoughts on that one now!! Keep rockin!! |
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