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| Procol Harum – A Salty Dog Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Moxicity:43268] I think this is a very good interpretation. I think emotionally the song suggests Christian redemption and arrival in heaven, after the dangerous journeys of life. |
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| Procol Harum – A Salty Dog Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[ASaltyDog:35820] I agree that it has to do with finding love and salvation. The boat is a symbol of the soul. The sailors are physically alive, but dead in their souls. So when they find salvation it is a huge surprise. The "How many moons how many Junes" is what marks it as being about finding the "loving homeland." Because these are empty words used as cheap rhymes in doggerel poems about love. So they represent the "torturous journey" to find earthly love, which leaves us stranded and dead. But at the end of the poem they find the true love. A lot of the details aren't easy to figure out, but this is Procol Harum, after all. |
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| Procol Harum – A Salty Dog Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[ASaltyDog:35819] I agree that it has to do with finding love and salvation. The boat is a symbol of the soul. The sailors are physically alive, but dead in their souls. So when they find salvation it is a huge surprise. The "How many moons how many Junes" is what marks it as being about finding the "loving homeland." Because these are empty words used as cheap rhymes in doggerel poems about love. So they represent the "torturous journey" to find earthly love, which leaves us stranded and dead. But at the end of the poem they find the true love. A lot of the details aren't easy to figure out, but this is Procol Harum, after all. |
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