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| Bauhaus – Who Killed Mr. Moonlight? Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I've always read this song to be about the sudden, disastrous end of childhood/innocence. And the line is definitely 'And the idiocy of clocks' - how could it be anything else..? Children think clocks are idiotic because they are - clocks were only invented to get folks to work on time. But clocks are also intrinsically linked to the moon. And the idea of the man in the moon is something only children can truly unnerstand... (and we're all children). The end of childhood/innocence casts a shadow over us all. And don't forget 'extracting wasps from stings in flight' (removing the pure, innocent creature of its potential while it attempts to flee into the shadowy world of opportunity)? Perhaps... |
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