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| Captain Beefheart – Golden Birdies Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[kaebeh:39718] it is Obeah-man.. someone who uses his relationship with devil to gain fortune and bring revenge on his enemies. And "bone knob land" is the shape of African continent. And the Panataloon is "Pantalon de\' Bisognosi" a greedy venetian merchant... OK this song is antisemitic, I regret getting deep into it. Now Beefheart is another white guy who thinks if it wasn\'t for the flocks of dirty brown big nosed people the innocent white roman/christians would bestow Jesus\'s love upon humanity.. pfff, another disillusionment with an artist. |
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| Captain Beefheart – Golden Birdies Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It looks like it has something to do with Moses freeing the Israelites from Egypt (his magic slit the sea open to let go flocks of them). I hope the birdie (large nose?) and acid gold bar stuff are not some antisemitic references; I would like to keep enjoying Beefheart. By the way I think it is Obeah/Obia, not Obi.. it is apparently a west African mythical beast that comes and steals people from villages (was Moses an Obia? is the broom his staff?). What is sookie singabus? Red merry go-round horse? |
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| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Big Eyed Beans from Venus Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It is about love that comes from outside. He is right to think that love is like a third thing, a big eyed bean, an alien or the mother\'s breast, that brings peace - earth people just have to let it in. Love doesn\'t grow out of what people are and what a good "match" their characteristics are (not even helpful at times), it has an existence of its own and changes altogether who one was before it came. If you were ever in love, didn\'t you feel you were suddenly someone else, someone better? It breaks the worsest of curses.\n\nThis may be a stretch but there are doubles twice. When the big eyed beans are mentioned for the first time it is followed by "oh my, oh my" and then again the song ends with "big eyed beans from Venus" said twice. Given that Venus is the goddess of love, as said before, the big eyed beans may be the two breasts that are also the symbol of a love/peace coming from without, like the mother\'s breasts are for the baby (they are these large "alien" beings that descend upon his/her face!). |
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