This isn't related to the lyric, but I think it's wonderful, and worth mentioning here.
After what I said above about the moral resonance of the words, I remembered a thought I'd had about this song many years ago.
I was listening to it, and it hit me: The melody has the same structural beauty as something from Bach. Listen dispassionately. Filter out the little latin-sounding polyrhythmic lead-in to the bridge. Listen to the main melody. Can you hear the Bachlike quality to the melody as well?
Oh yeah, one more thing.
This isn't related to the lyric, but I think it's wonderful, and worth mentioning here.
After what I said above about the moral resonance of the words, I remembered a thought I'd had about this song many years ago.
I was listening to it, and it hit me: The melody has the same structural beauty as something from Bach. Listen dispassionately. Filter out the little latin-sounding polyrhythmic lead-in to the bridge. Listen to the main melody. Can you hear the Bachlike quality to the melody as well?
Amazing.