| Lauryn Hill – To Zion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Re: sylviasoven Why can't someone be a feminist and anti-abortion at the same time? The "pro-choice" opinion reflects poorly on feminism, which seemingly is now reduced to pro-choice advocacy and nothing more. The sanctity and autonomy of a woman's body should extend to the baby's separate body i.e. that fetal body has natural rights (like the right to life). This is a beautiful song. It affirms the majesty of life as well as the virtue of preserving life. Children make life worthwhile, as Lauryn Hill understands. The thing I like about Lauryn Hill is that she doesn't make a sex object out of herself like so many other female artists (Madonna, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Rihanna). She also comes across as mature and wise, offering real-world advice as in "Doo Wop (That Thing)." Nothing makes a person more of an adult than taking care of children. | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Voice of the Voiceless Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Mumia Abu Jamal is a killer. The only three people who saw the murder were Jamal himself, his brother, and the murdered Philadelphia police officer. Neither Jamal nor his brother have been forthcoming with information that would be of use to proving their innocence. The main claim that Jamal's defenders use to show his innocence is that the bullet that killed the officer was of the wrong caliber to be fired from the gun that Jamal had. Ballistics have shown, however, that it was possible to fire the bullets in question with the type of gun he possessed. Lemme say that Rage has awesome beats despite their confused and ignorant politics. | |
| Led Zeppelin – The Battle of Evermore Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I wonder if this song could be an allegory to the endtimes of Christian prophecy. The title seems like a good giveaway: "The Battle of Evermore". Evermore, as in forever, eternity and, hence, the suspicion for it being about the "endtimes". From what I understand, the prophecy of the end from the Book of Revelations catalogs the steps toward the ultimate victory of good over evil. In the first line of the song, the lyrics reference the "Prince of Peace" - a title given to Christ. In various books of the Bible, Jesus describes his return riding on the clouds with a train of angels. I don't know what the "embraced the gloom" part may be about. Maybe it's to describe Jesus mood for the task he must do which is, namely, to judge the souls of humanity. Probably not a very uplifting job because it means that people will perish. The song repeatedly refers to the "darkness" and the "dark of night" (wait for the eastern glow). I think there is some line in at least one of the books of the Bible about the sun being shrouded in darkness during the last days. Also, the lyrics refer to the "Dark Lord" in riding in force and the "tyrant's face is red". Could this be a reference to the devil? The devil is often depicted as a red-skinned satyr-like creature, and he is often reffered to as the "Prince of Darkness". Satan is supposed to gain control of the whole world through agents in high places (ten kings) and, subsequently, through the embodiment of the antichrist. Some of the next lines in the song are: "I hear the horses' thunder down in the valley below,/I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow." Could those horses be reffering to the Horses of the Apocalypse, commandeered by the agents of destruction (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death)? The valley, too, is significant. The valley of Har Meggido, in Israel, has been sighted as the spot of the final showdown between the forces of good and the forces of evil. The name also happens to be where we get the word "Armageddon". The valley of the song apparently has apples growing in it, apples which "hold the seeds of happiness". This line of lyrics made me think of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, an apple, which Adam and Eve ate and which got them kicked out of the Garden of Eden. From Milton's "Paradise Lost", the act of eating that apple is treated as an almost gleefully wicked thing to do relating it to the "seeds of happiness". The next line, "The ground is rich from tender care, repay, do not forget, no, no," seems like further biblical allegory as Adam was assigned to "care" for the Garden of Eden and tend it. Also, the phrase repay is significant. Because of Adam's trespasses like eating the sinful apple, he was consigned to die someday. The debt he has incurred, death, must therefore be repayed. That repayment comes in the form of the tribulation and redemption of Adam's heirs - the human race - during the last days. The last lines of the song, "At last the sun is shining,/The clouds of blue roll by,/With flames from the dragon of darkness, the sunlight blinds his eyes." could detail the last stroke of the battle between God's forces and the devil's. In Revelations 12:9, the devil and his forces are cast from heaven and it is described this way: ""and the great Dragon was cast out, that old Serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." The sunlight which "blinds his eye" (the devil's) could be God himself as Milton describes God as a pure white shining light in his poem "Paradise Lost". Not to discount the clear reference to the Ringwraiths in the song, and the possiblity that the "Queen of Light" could be the character Arwen or Eowyn and the "Prince of Peace" Aragorn, there is more biblical allegory here than Tolkien's works. | |
| U2 – Beautiful Day Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I was just thinking of this song. I think it relates to the famous Irish novel "Ulysses". The plot of Ulysses takes place all in one day hence the "Day" in the song title. The main character in the novel is Mr. Bloom and the opening line to the song is "The heart is a bloom" - maybe that's a clue. Also, the lyrics "You're on the road/But you've got no destination/You're in the mud/In the maze of her imagination" totally make sense: Bloom spends most of his day just wandering around Dublin with no real destination in mind. The last line of those lyrics also could refer to the end chapter of "Ulysses". In that chapter, Bloom's wife thinks about her and her husband's past, but the whole thing is in a continuous, unpunctuated stream. It's really hard to read and I can see how it could be thought of as a maze. By the way, the phrase "Spanish eyes" is used by Bloom to describe his wife, and it also happens to be the title of another U2 song. | |
| U2 – Beautiful Day Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I just heard this song. I think it's a quasi-tribute to the famous Irish novel "Ulysses". The plot of "Ulysses" takes place all in one day hence the "Day" part of the song's title. The main character's name is Mr. Bloom and this song opens with "The heart is a bloom" - maybe that's a clue. The lyrics "You're on the road/But you've got no destination/You're in the mud/In the maze of her imagination" fit with the story in "Ulysses", too. Bloom spends most of the day wandering around the city of Dublin and events just kind of unfold. Also, the end line of the above verse could relate to the end chapter of the novel when Bloom's wife is in bed and her thoughts are represented as a continuous, unpunctuated ramble. It fits with the phrase "In the maze of her imagination" because the chapter deals with the wife's thoughts of her and her husband, and it's hard to understand what's going on when you read it; just like a confusing maze. By the way, the phrase "Spanish eyes" is used a lot in the novel "Ulysses", and it also happens to be the title of another U2 song. | |
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