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| Simple Minds – Hunter and the Hunted Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song has long intrigued me, as I've been a Simple Minds fan since the 1980s and New Gold Dreams mirrors the years I was in high school, 81-84. There's a magical electric piano solo at the end of the album version that was apparently played by jazz great Herbie Hancock. I like TopTonyChick's comment about how they refer to the song as "giving into temptation." Kyoto is the capital of Japan's geisha world, and I was lucky enough to witnesses the geishas parading out into the early evening. Repeated references to being "cocooned" in "badlands" likely refers to the narrator's desperation. Temptation, desperation, passion. Cruising. Geishas. I think this song is about sex. |
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| Kate Bush – King of the Mountain Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[mazzystarrr:41966] I can definitely relate to the notion that losing a parent feels like a kick in the head by your own mortality. I've now lost both parents and survived a fight with Stage 2 cancer and mortality is front and center for me, and I'm "only" 55. Go figure. |
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| Kate Bush – King of the Mountain Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I feel like most folks here are on the young side, which is why they are missing the obvious reference to William Randolf Hearst, as well as to Elvis. "Rosebud" was the name of the sled which was a veiled touchstone to Hearst's youth from the movie Orson Welles made about him, Citizen Kane. (There was also a rumor that Rosebud was what Hearst called his mistress's clitoris--likely urban legend from that period.) In any event, the two figures of Hearst and Elvis, combined with the title of the song and the imagery of wind whistling through the house (Hearst Castle) suggest, to me at least, that this song is a commentary on the hollow prize of achieving insane wealth and incredible fame.
I suppose there could also be some statement by Kate Bush on how, at a certain level, some of the rich and famous will become more important after their death. She muses that Elvis may be happier in the afterlife ("a happy man" "dancing on your grave"). There is also an allusion to Elvis as a Christ-like figure, who will "rise again someday." |
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