| Old Crow Medicine Show – I Hear Them All Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I tend to make September 11th more central to the song than others do. The first verse has obvious biblical interpretations, and more universal refugee interpretations, but I see the immediate inspiration being an attempt at empathy or understanding for people in the middle east who "Hear destructive power prevailing, I hear fools falsely hailing. To the crooked wits of tyrants when they call." hey are fools being summoned by anger or desperation to do evil against what they see as the destructive powers working against them, but they are really working for tyrants who try to speak for God. In the second verse: "I hear the sounds of tearing pages and the roar of burning paper. All the crimes in acquisitions turn to air and ash and vapor." is an image of the towers themselves, paper flying everywhere was part of the imagery of 9/11. "Crimes in Acquisitions" being a reference to World Trade. Not as a justification for the act, but as another reference to the powerful, and a recognition. The third verse is obvious, and the forth calls for our religions to tie us together in peace when they are no longer abused by the powerful. |
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| Tom Waits – Clap Hands Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I had a though tonight that the lyric "Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal" may be a direct reference to a segment of Atlas Shrugged in which a millionaire goes undercover in a coal mine or something like that. It's been 30 years since I read Atlas Shrugged. The implication of that part of the story was that certain people made a coal miner 100 times would always become the owner. He may be mocking it. | |
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