| Cake – Comfort Eagle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| 'Onion-head hat' is a funny line regardless, but something occurred to me the other day. The towers that call Muslims to their prayers - minarets - typically have what are referred to as 'onion' tops, tops that look like onions. If that's what John McCrea was getting at, it's full of a lot of meaning; he would be merging the idea of fashion/accessory consumerism with the concept that those who buy the products are in fact a minaret - a billboard, a call to 'prayer' - by their wearing the garb itself. Again, 'we are building a religion' - and in this case the consumers are the preachers who call others to wear the onion-head hats. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – No Man's Land Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There is yet another level of connection/symbolism here, and this is on the completely gratuitous level. Would we expect anything less from Mr. Stevens? . . .Woody Guthrie, whose song /No Man's Land/ references here, was from Oklahoma. Before the distinctive strip of land (the 'panhandle') of Oklahoma became a part of the state, it was an unclaimed area called 'no man's land,' where various groups sought sanctuary and fought each other. |
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