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I always figured Solomon was an old dog...

To me it sounds like it's about an old couple who have been together for most of their lives, so long it feels like "hundreds of thousands of years." Solomon, the man, is reaching the end of his life, and the singer is pleading him not to leave her just yet.

Begging someone to stay maybe...

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But I love him dear, And I love him near, And I've loved him hundreds of thousands of years.

I have thought long about this. Tanya and her lover have been together through numerous reincarnations over hundreds of thousands of years. The current incarnations are her, and her cat, Solomon. This creates tensions of course. Also, Solomon is old now, and will die soon. She doesn't want him to, because when he does she will have to wait until she dies, and then may even have to find him again.

I've always imagined this is a song about the dangers of falling in love with a Goddess. Poor Solomon never stood a chance. It was amazing at first, but he's been done with life for thousands of years, and she won't let him go.

This fits nicely with the "mythological" feel of other songs on this album, specifically "Angel".

I do also like the idea that song is the end of a very long relationship, long past its youthful vigor and romance, but still important to the singer.

Tonnes of religious things & stuff: There\'s enough of it to be distracted & lulled into associating (King) Solomon; but really, it\'s spelt Solo-Man, she sneaked that one past. One of the few albums that still grabs me after 30 yrs of listening.\n \n If only Sympathy for the Devil wasn\'t already taken... \n Remember kids, just say no to apples.\n\n So, I see a story of mankind, like an A-Z of its journey throughout the hundreds of millenia since the garden of Eden hosted our grandparents. It\'s in Eve\'s narrative & she seems to be observationally aware of & worryingly acquiescing of the many harms Adam does himself through his own husbandry, even when the consequences mean that their presumed children (heirs) will inherit a world where no one cares. Adam\'s love for Eve is ultimately different to Eve\'s love for Adam. He even sighs when he realises that he\'ll reach his three score & ten long before Eve. Dude\'s worried about leaving her to fence for herself. Gentleman or robot? jury\'s out. Incidentally, I figured that if you wanted to calculate how much older Adam actually is to Eve you\'d have to forensically date his age at ITS creation: the fibrous scar tissue that is, created when god took “U\'le\'tzela hamishkan” from the no doubt consenting Soloman (soon to be: [spoiler alert!] \'The Artist formerly known as Soloman\' (trading standards)) "Because... why the fuck not? I\'m God, I\'ll do whatever floats my fucking boat, panshine: deal with it! ....or her"\n Things go awry. His love becomes servile, crawling like a snake. Overwhelmed by devotion, Adam falls on his own face, blinded by the apple of his eye (although, a head-turning low-cut fig-leaf, would satisfyingly achieve the self-same humiliating effect). Kind of pathetic: falling from grace, on your face. I mean come on Adam, WTF!?. Where is it? How’d you manage to lose paradise!? What you done with it FFS!?\n After eating the apple, comes banishment: cast out, homeless, into the hard-yard (not as cool as it sounds), hard back-breaking graft all day if you ever want to eat - which you prolly won\'t because everything\'s hard anyway ("you think all that Eden lifestyle just grows on trees!??”). \n Old age is now their enemy, just like Thor Vs Elli. Mortality: the ultimate in marriage guidance council. \n Big bastard bears, lions, wolves, ticks, things that want to swim up your urethra! f\'kin everywhere! She really needs him now (he\'s probably tooth-proof anyway, right?). He keeps himself heartless and hard: a stark survival necessity, because it turns out being empathic and doing lots of murder is a high odds recipe for cognitive dissonance, cue fail. Alas, had he not missed that day\'s lecture on evolutionary theory the day of his eviction from the university of paradise, he would have learned that it takes about 10,000 yrs or so for beneficial behaviours to begin adapting. If the wind changes, you\'ll be stuck like that forever! and your children too: win genes ftw! The lucky heirs of no one who cares, proliferate Earth with their uber-apex genetic wares: A wilderness of murderous giveafucks, and lots & lots of hard. Just tonnes of it!\n He sleeps under stars for about 290,000 years (or, quite possibly, unknown aeons preceding 287,200 years, if the Younger Dryas period\'s catastrophic disasters did in fact turn out to have accidentally-on-purpose erased nearly all evidence (likely lost beneath ~ two miles of torrential water) of all the things & stuff that might once have been built to stand between people & the stars (so you wouldn\'t be under them anymore - even though you kind of were). He then sleeps under stairs for about 10,000 yrs once they\'ve actually historically (Younger Dryas disaster events tbc) (re/)invented the technology to put things between themselves & the stars, so that - as you correctly point out: you\'re not under them anymore - even though you are. Houses! Now you know. \n But none of this sways Eve, she is loved up. Stick to the plan! Truly, Madly, Dearly, Nearly, Let\'s see in another thousand yearsy. Should be much easier now we have things to put between the stars & ourselves.\n\n They should have just stayed in the garden of Eden & taken loads of drugs so they wouldn\'t have any need for messing around taking dodgy apples for enlightenment’s sake. He never said anything about laying off the mushrooms. Only warmongering, psychopathic politicians care enough about people to ban them and the viscous trail of peace they leave behind.\n\n This was absolutely a drug free production. Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did, unless ofc, it starts reading increasingly more rubbish as they wear off. ;)