Salome

Good historical reference, shayness, but reading the lyrics carefully with just a bit of imagination takes the reference forward to today. I think the song is about a man becoming lustfully obsessed with a dancer. The lyrics I believe are inaccurately represented in a place or two. Notably, "I got lies to feed" should read, "I got eyes to feed". He wants to see her naked. He is trying to get her to "Untie the Knott" to remove her garment. The historical roots are real but he is promising "half that I got" (read: a lot...

Good historical reference, shayness, but reading the lyrics carefully with just a bit of imagination takes the reference forward to today. I think the song is about a man becoming lustfully obsessed with a dancer. The lyrics I believe are inaccurately represented in a place or two. Notably, "I got lies to feed" should read, "I got eyes to feed". He wants to see her naked. He is trying to get her to "Untie the Knott" to remove her garment. The historical roots are real but he is promising "half that I got" (read: a lot of money), not as in the biblical version, John the Baptist's head. The lyrics are quite sexually suggestive for the band which may be why the song was not mainstreamed.

Another reason this song may not have been mainstreamed is that it could well be about Edge's growing interest at the time in Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer/choreographer from Los Angeles the band had hired to perform as a belly dancer in their Zoo tour concerts. Edge had separated from his first wife a few years earlier. He may have objected to the release as his intentions were greater than the song would suggest. He and Steinberg were married a few years later and remain together today.

Another reason this song may not have been mainstreamed is that it could well be about Edge's growing interest at the time in Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer/choreographer from Los Angeles the band had hired to perform as a belly dancer in their Zoo tour concerts. Edge had separated from his first wife a few years earlier. He may have objected to the release as his intentions were greater than the song would suggest. He and Steinberg were married a few years later and remain together today.

There must be some reason such strong poetry and beat never made mainstream...

There must be some reason such strong poetry and beat never made mainstream release.