Cowboys Lyrics

Lyric discussion by xdvr 

Cover art for Cowboys lyrics by Portishead

Obviously quite a bitter song, and one of the best on the second album. Political? I'm not quite sure - the "Talons fly as a last resort" is hardly something a Politician does. I think it's aimed on a personal level at someone who's lied continually about who they are and made sure the truth never comes out by shouting their detractors down. The song has an overall air of defiance about it tho, which is great.

Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily...

Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily...

Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily...