| Squirrel Nut Zippers – Ghost Of Stephen Foster Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'Hotel Paradise' seems to imply a double meaning on the fact that he died in a hotel and the afterlife. So perhaps his afterlife takes place in a hotel in some sort of cosmic irony, or just a hotel called Paradise would serve as a nexus between the two. I'm curious as to why the pairs in the first verse are reversed. I would more think carpets are made for rooms, spires are made for towers, and cannons are made for ships.. There's something hidden in that, but I can't quite bring it to the surface. One thing I did note was the pairing up of 'whiskey made for drinking' as was pointed out earlier, and 'ships are made for sinking', implying the two are acts of disaster. To build a boat just to sink it being a road to self-destruction just as overdrinking. So perhaps the reversal in the first and the juxtaposition in the second are related somehow? |
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