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Snakes on a Ladder Lyrics
he knows your name, boy
i'll write it down
under bridges into town
and watch it rusting, your father's crown
and your mother sleeps in the ground
i go out walking, my own feet
and i might sing, 'oh bury me'
and from the bedroom there exudes the awful sound
and your mother sleeps in the ground
oh, the snakes on the ladder
my eyes were something that i saw
(x2)
there's a motion in the sky
and the singer you called outside
to the woods reflecting back a million sounds
of our lives, inside the four leaves tumbling down
oh, snakes on the ladder
oh, my eyes were something that i saw
(x2)
i'll write it down
under bridges into town
and watch it rusting, your father's crown
and your mother sleeps in the ground
and i might sing, 'oh bury me'
and from the bedroom there exudes the awful sound
and your mother sleeps in the ground
my eyes were something that i saw
(x2)
and the singer you called outside
to the woods reflecting back a million sounds
of our lives, inside the four leaves tumbling down
oh, my eyes were something that i saw
(x2)
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pandora_ash_avalie On Nov 09, 2007
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heres what im getting:
He knows your name, boy You'll write it down Under bridges into town And whats that rusting?, you're fathers crown! And our mother sleeps in the ground
I go out walking, my own feet And I might sing, "Oh bury me" And from the bedroom exudes the awful sound And our mother sleeps in the ground
Oh, snakes on the ladder Oh, my eyes were something i saw
There's a motion in the sky And the singer who called outside To the woods reflecting back a million sounds Of our lives, inside the forest off Greyhound?
Oh, Snakes on the ladder Oh, my eyes were something i saw
I think this song is about him feeling really depressed about his mothers death and him wanting to die also to be with her again.
thats pretty much it in a nutshell. either way its a beautiful and powerful song. my favorite of plague park
Snakes and Ladders is an old children's game that this song makes me think of.
Salmon Rushdie describes it as:
All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you hope to climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner, and for every snake a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother
Good description.