| The Stills – Statue of Sirens Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Reminds me of The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. | |
| The Clash – Death Is a Star Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Syd:33886] Vishnu actually, edit: there is no such thing as the Spanish Mountains in Jamaica. Just some mountains with Spanish names. | |
| The Clash – Death Is a Star Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I’ve always really loved this song, such a beautiful painting, so much color, poetry and mystery. Great reflections from everyone in the comments here. I love the references to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Spanish mountains (fittingly, there is a mountain range in Jamaica called the Spanish Mountains, a country that loved its spaghetti westerns, set in the Spanish mountains). I love that flamenco Django Reinhart kind of simple, subdued guitar rhythm, and the piano. Feels like something from the 40’s. A couple of personal reflections on this song are that when I first got Combat Rock as a teen back in the 90’s, I thought Death Is A Star was a more poetic title, referring to stars in the night sky. A single star twinkling. Death is a star in the night sky. Which made me feel like every star in the sky represents a death, and that nothing dies but ascends to the realm of the eternal luminous heavens. I also thought Death Is A Star reminded me of a star exploding. After billions of years, a star exploding and extinguishing. I felt that was poetic and powerful, and I thought that’s what the song title was poetically pointing at: like it talks about love and death here on Earth while we go about our human lives, going to movies, personal loves, dramas, on this little planet, juxtaposed with the image in the title of a star exploding, evoking aeons unfathomable to the human mind, making our little lives feel all the more meaningful for their brevity. Just in that single song and song title! Of course, now I know what is about, but I still carry those feelings about this song. Finally, maybe the most poignant thing for me about this song is it’s the last song on the last Clash album (with all the guys on it). It’s a song like a harbinger of the death that was to come for The Clash. The phantom and thief of life came for The Clash, too, and not long after this song was recorded and released. Could they have sensed it on some level? The evocation of death, stars above, stardom, and the poignant atmosphere of the song feels like such a perfect way to end the legacy of one of the greatest bands of all time, the perfect way to end the film, roll the credits. The Clash can never be again. Joe has passed into the next realm, and we are left with his spirit and the spirit of this band. Sent into the stars, the Clash and Joe were indeed claimed by death, a band that burned so bright and so powerfully, and collapsed in on itself and exploded, like a star going suernova. But the Clash lives on forever, like a star twinkling silently, a wink from the heavens. Maybe it’s Joe, if anyone cares to look up and see it. |
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