| Sarah Blasko – Planet New Year Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The allegory of giving birth to a half Vulcan Spock piano boy sounds very painful. However, all worked out in the end. About the religious angle, she has admitted in an interview of feeling guilt of her personal life, due to religious upbringing. (In fact, she was famously conceived on the Island of Marititius, where her parents were doing missionary work.) |
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| Katzenjammer – The Soviet Trumpeter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Post WWI and Russian Revolution, large numbers of countrymen left what became USSR. This song represents one musician of that group, who is in the video apparently living homeless in a Central European city, very possibly Germany. He is rejected by the local prostitutes, perhaps after asking them for some company in return for a song. His life is recounted in memory, aiding the cause, but in a bittersweet way. The audience is pigs and dogs in official USSR uniform. How did he arrive in exile? Something happened. The paths were many, for example some forts and ships around Leningrad (then Petrograd). They were attacked by Soviet forces after they protested circa 1921. All died soon afterwards in labor camps, except many who made their way over the ice into Finland, nearby, in exile. Those very same sailors and soldiers units were responsible for the 1918 revolution in Petrograd. Anyway, he waters down his memories in alcohol. Some how a spirit comforts him. He is unrepentant as a communist and only if things had been different in leadership. Older, maybe in the early 1930's before Hitler, he is feeling aged. After waking up at the doorstep, he feels refreshed. The spirit protected him. That is what I see. |
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| Katzenjammer – The Soviet Trumpeter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Post WWI and Russian Revolution, large numbers of countrymen left what became USSR. This song represents one musician of that group, who is in the video apparently living homeless in a Central European city, very possibly Germany. He is rejected by the local prostitutes, perhaps after asking them for some company in return for a song. His life is recounted in memory, aiding the cause, but in a bittersweet way. The audience is pigs and dogs in official USSR uniform. How did he arrive in exile? Something happened. The paths were many, for example some forts and ships around Leningrad (then Petrograd). They were attacked by Soviet forces after they protested circa 1921. All died soon afterwards in labor camps, except many who made their way over the ice into Finland, nearby, in exile. Those very same sailors and soldiers units were responsible for the 1918 revolution in Petrograd. Anyway, he waters down his memories in alcohol. Some how a spirit comforts him. He is unrepentant as a communist and only if things had been different in leadership. Older, maybe in the early 1930's before Hitler, he is feeling aged. After waking up at the doorstep, he feels refreshed. The spirit protected him. That is what I see. |
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