| Tom Waits – Waltzing Mathilda Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I've been reading a lot about the term "Waltzing Mathilda", trying hard to find out what it is about. What i have found out: it has something to do with an Australian folk song, but then the walking soldiers backpack in Vietnam War was called "Waltzing Mathilda" as it looked like a kind of dancing girl on the soldier walking in front. This song was written in 1976, end time of the Vietnam War. It seems like "Waltzing with Mathilda" is (or was) a synonym for going to war in general. In the bad way, not in the ideal of becoming a hero, young and idealistic... Just going into that hell. The soldier in this song has seen too much already, knows, that he is going to be killed or to kill others. Has been injured and has seen many deaths and cruelties. Now, in the little meantime, he tries to kill his traumatic experiences and his own feelings with women and drugs (alcohol). "Tom Traubert's Blues" (the original title, by Tom Waits) is a very intense, impressive and poetic Anti-War-Song. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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In my opinion, the lyrics are about a woman having deep female (emotional) intelligence and tries to talk to the beloved man to face his demons and his past: "Let the waste cross the ancient trails to you Far out beneath the sorrow clouds Let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you Let them cry out through your rusted scars" (That's the past and a broken heart - all that made him this kind of hard hearted zombie). But he just can't stand it (can't leave his trails of trying not to feel anything). That hurts her deeply, and him also, but he is too much a coward to recognize. Don't know if he really kills her, but his state of mind is really "Pistol Pete", nowadays we maybe would say "toxic", but still no sociopath. |
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