| Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Get Down Moses Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Iconoclasm is a necessary part of the journey thru this fun house world. Joe talks to the icons of his time at his level. Eye to eye. I interpret Joe's seeming irreverence toward Moses and (in the live track of the pre-album version of this song) Elijah, as an iconoclastic purging of the dross within our myths and laws which, to the searching soul, only seem to hinder the soul's outward, inward, upward journey toward revelation. At the mountaintop, after this clearing of superfluous lore, all that remains is pure truth; which crystalizes, "....like jewels in the rock." And, lest we miss the point, as if to let us know that there is so much more than "rock", in conclusion Joe sews it all up by saying we had all better chew all he is saying over. Chew it with our "wisdom teeth". This is a truly inspired work. |
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