Whoever submitted the lyrics here, did a terrible job rendering them... anyway.
"Lemuria" is a fabled lost island, along the same lines of Atlantis. According to legend, it was situated in the Indian ocean. Lemuria sunk into the sea, and the remnant of it is Madagascar. Lemuria was named because of supposition that it was the original home of the Lemurs (primitive primates that live only on Madagascar)
Virginia Wolfe was a woman who was famed for having a very sharp tongue (read - good at insulting others). Kenneth Anger was an experimental filmmaker, and Eddie Spaghetti is the outspoken bassist of a band called the Supersuckers, whom I've never had a chance to listen to.
This song is subtler than a lot of the Murder City Devils lyrics. Fields of Fire, for example, is my favorite song of theirs, but it's easy to understand what they're talking about. This one, on the other hand...
Seems to me that Spencer's singing about how he plays his music the way he wants to. Lines like "I'd rather be a dandy than another boring girl with an acoustic guitar" and "in the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti, we do what we do" seem to say that he's not really all that concerned with what other people think. The opening lines are his decision to play this way in the first place.
I haven't yet figured out what the lines about Lois mean, or why Lemuria is relevant to the lyrics... join in, people. This is one of MCD's most underrated songs, and deserves the attention.
Whoever submitted the lyrics here, did a terrible job rendering them... anyway.
"Lemuria" is a fabled lost island, along the same lines of Atlantis. According to legend, it was situated in the Indian ocean. Lemuria sunk into the sea, and the remnant of it is Madagascar. Lemuria was named because of supposition that it was the original home of the Lemurs (primitive primates that live only on Madagascar)
Virginia Wolfe was a woman who was famed for having a very sharp tongue (read - good at insulting others). Kenneth Anger was an experimental filmmaker, and Eddie Spaghetti is the outspoken bassist of a band called the Supersuckers, whom I've never had a chance to listen to.
This song is subtler than a lot of the Murder City Devils lyrics. Fields of Fire, for example, is my favorite song of theirs, but it's easy to understand what they're talking about. This one, on the other hand...
Seems to me that Spencer's singing about how he plays his music the way he wants to. Lines like "I'd rather be a dandy than another boring girl with an acoustic guitar" and "in the spirit of Eddie Spaghetti, we do what we do" seem to say that he's not really all that concerned with what other people think. The opening lines are his decision to play this way in the first place.
I haven't yet figured out what the lines about Lois mean, or why Lemuria is relevant to the lyrics... join in, people. This is one of MCD's most underrated songs, and deserves the attention.