| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – We Real Cool Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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on one hand, who measure your height from the toes to the top of your head? a coffin maker. that's the first and very unambiguous association. new cloths and shoes are also very often the part of the ritual. and a book you never read... there are plenty of post-mortem variants. on the other hand there is a strong reference to the SUN!!! "on the far side of the morning" is always SUN "who chase your shadow?" the light. and SUN by the very fact of casting your shadow, indeed is measuring you from the top of your head... "who measured the distance to the planets?" THE LIGHT! it is so damn unambiguous! what does it mean as a whole i have no idea. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Redhead74:5255] well, that means you don't take it really serious. as i said there is no uplifting for Sysyphus | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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also: I am alone now I am beyond recriminations it sounds very murderous -- he solved the problem |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Arsicle:204] very strong and clear refernece to her blackmailing him (or "could plot blackmailing" according to his imagination) in face of apparent financial issues of hers -- that is a clue for implicit murder narrative | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[gughiman:203] i can't stop associating his transformation with Kafka's "Metaporphosys" -- for no obvious reason. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Loom of the Land Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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indeed, the least sinister song of Cave's. i thought it might be a faint reference to a possible murder "out of unbearable love" (as usual for Cave), but reading the text through and through i conjecture NO. at first glance (and also second and all consequent ones) this song reminds me of some days of my youth lived in a depressive, almost deserted town. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Watching Alice Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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the strange reference to "uniform with zippers" makes me doubt your version. this uniform sounds to me very frightening and in some sense dischord to "brushing her hair 100 times", as if something nice looking turned out to be completely wrong, misleading, shameful. but what??? i have no idea. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| this is applicable to a god as well. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| reminds me the story of Sysyphus | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| the most depressive song i've ever heard! even for me it is TOO MUCH. it is even more depressive than "Death Is Not The End" which i can hardly listen. | |
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