| Leonard Cohen – Boogie Street Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In an interview with Brian D. Johnson in Maclean's Magazine in October 15, 2001 Cohen said of Boogie Street: "...during the day Boogie Street is a scene of intense commercial activity... And at night, it was a scene of intense and alarming sexual exchange." Later he goes on to talk of its metaphorical meaning: "Boogie Street to me was that street of work and desire, the ordinary life and also the place we live in most of the time that is relieved by the embrace of your children, or the kiss of your beloved, or the peak experience in which you yourself are dissolved, and there is no one to experience it so you feel the refreshment when you come back from those moments....So we all hope for those heavenly moments, which we get in those embraces and those sudden perceptions of beauty and sensations of pleasure, but we're immediately returned to Boogie Street." |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Idiot Prayer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's about a murderer about to be executed...these are his last thoughts towards his victim, a woman that he loved...he's hoping to meet her again in Heaven("if you're in Heaven then you'll forgive me, dear"). | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Gates to the Garden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about a rendez-vous with a girl in the town of Bury St Edmunds, county of Suffolk, England. He crosses Athenaeum Lane street that runs between Angel Hill and Churchgate Street: "Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral" and reaches Bury St Edmunds Cathedral...there he waits his date to come up and he's contemplating the graves: "Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers Runaways and suicidal lovers Assorted boxes of ordinary bones" at the right time( "The bell from St. Edmunds informs me of the hour") his girl appears and all his sad thoughts dissapear: "Leave these ancient places to the angels Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold" nothing else matters for him but his girlfriend, she's the only thing alive: "For God is in this hand that I hold". It's very nice the contrast between the dead ones, the cold world, people dead and buried and the light, warm world represented by this woman. |
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