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I was too old to be trained in the ways of the Force, so now I suffer, lost and alone. Forgotten. Mourn not for me. I am only a consequence.
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Over At The Frankenstein Place Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[dirtylemons:35347] So did I, though I did it worse than you. I thought it was "Flow, Morpheus flow..." | |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Over At The Frankenstein Place Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I love this song, because it's so cheesy from Brad and Janet's pov but so vital from RiffRaff's. For Brad and Janet, they're like having this romantic walk in the dark rainy night toward this place where there's a beacon of warmth awaiting them. The irony of the lyric 'Over at the Frankenstein Place' is completely lost on them it seems. Given Rocky Horror's pop culture b-movie fetish for everything from King Kong to Flash Gordon and the Invisible Man, etc, the name 'Frankenstein' should reasonably instill some caution in the approaching travelers. The chorus essentially warns the couple that, yes, there is a light in the dark, but that light is situated in Frankenstein's Castle, where monsters dwell. They're heedless and innocent though so they walk right into the dragon's mouth. On the other hand is RiffRaff, for whom I think this song provides an actual bit of backstory. We know when Frank and Magenta and RiffRaff arrived on Earth from their home planet, Frank'n'furter immediately started philandering with Eddie and Columbia. RiffRaff, based on these lyrics, immediately got hooked on drugs, morphine specifically: "Flow Morphia slow, let the sun and light come streaming into my life". Morphia is an antiquated synonym for morphine. Given that Eddie was a bit of a scumbag and Columbia was Eddie's girlfriend, it's probable that they were the ones who got RiffRaff hooked and also the ones who failed to keep him in ready supply but that might be a stretch. I like to think that RiffRaff never getting his drugs is what really led to his betrayal of Frank'n'furter and Frank's and Rocky's deaths. This is possibly backed up by the some of the first lyrics in 'Sweet Transvestite' being: "How do you do I see you've met my Faithful handyman He's just a little brought down because When you knocked He thought you were the candyman..." Candyman in this context meaning drug dealer. The next lyrics could be interpreted as Frank addressing RiffRaff as much as Brad and Janet: "Don't get strung out By the way I look..." 'Strung out' being a (now cliche?) term for painkiller withdrawal. Rocky Horror was first and foremost about sex, drugs and rock n roll and all that. |
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| Swans – You Fucking People Make Me Sick Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Since I guess no one else wanted to post any ideas about this song, I thought I'd try to. It reminds me of "Welcome to My Nightmare" era Alice Cooper, in a lot of ways. Songs on that record presented a sanitized form of atrocity, an odd, often over-dramatic portrayal of insanity and ultimately murder. This song, however, deals with child murder and probably pedophilia. The diamonds falling are the little innocent unique jewels that are prepubescent (asexual) children falling into the narrators grasp. The 'new wound in the sky' is the simple fact that every time a kid is murdered people lose more faith in God above, if that's not too simplistic. The very possibility of what is occurring is an affront to all goodness. The "Obsessions, Pink Children" is showing that one word or the other is much the same for the pedophile. That 'they are laid out in a line' is the murderer/molesters' self-serving justification. Wherever he goes he finds the next victim. By screaming, they pollute whatever stupid idea he had about what he's doing to them, 'demanding their life'. The feelings that call are the feelings to extinguish his victims. The red leper of all time is the ultimate, eternal taboo, Blood. The killers love and need, his desire to shine, are all illusory. He has turned his victim, a precious young life, a barely-born soul, into a thing for himself to consume. Something that is his, utterly, completely "mine". Rightfully, the song is a letter to every person out there like the killer, and it is a message with it's honest, clear and impossible to misinterpret lyrics. People who would do this are garbage; "You Fucking People Make Me Sick." |
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