Yes-fag could mean cigarette. But you would be a fool to think that’s what she meant in this context. It’s pretty obvious she was singing about dead gay person.
Yes-fag could mean cigarette. But you would be a fool to think that’s what she meant in this context. It’s pretty obvious she was singing about dead gay person.
In this context, it's a pun. Yes, it refers to a gay person's death, and she illustrates people's cold reactions with the paralleled pun of a burnt out cigarette. "Just another dead fag to you, that's all / Just another light missing / on a long taxi ride..." She's saying that the death of this gay friend meant no more to these people than a burnt out cigarette.
In this context, it's a pun. Yes, it refers to a gay person's death, and she illustrates people's cold reactions with the paralleled pun of a burnt out cigarette. "Just another dead fag to you, that's all / Just another light missing / on a long taxi ride..." She's saying that the death of this gay friend meant no more to these people than a burnt out cigarette.
@toxicwasteforbrains I think it means both. I've always pictured it as watching the light from a cigarette go out in the window of the taxi next to you while you're sitting in a taxi yourself, and thinking of how the person ("dead fag") disappeared just as quickly and nonchalantly. Maybe the person whose "last cigarette" you are down to is your lover, who doesn't care about the passing of gay people, and you disagree with that, so when you look at this cigarette you think, when this lover says "we are one," it's just a bunch of crap, because...
@toxicwasteforbrains I think it means both. I've always pictured it as watching the light from a cigarette go out in the window of the taxi next to you while you're sitting in a taxi yourself, and thinking of how the person ("dead fag") disappeared just as quickly and nonchalantly. Maybe the person whose "last cigarette" you are down to is your lover, who doesn't care about the passing of gay people, and you disagree with that, so when you look at this cigarette you think, when this lover says "we are one," it's just a bunch of crap, because you and he/she are really not of the same mind. Maybe the "last cigarette" is like "the last straw" - if this person shows one more inhumane trait about themselves, you're done with them.
Fag could also mean cigarette... just throwing that out there
Yes-fag could mean cigarette. But you would be a fool to think that’s what she meant in this context. It’s pretty obvious she was singing about dead gay person.
Yes-fag could mean cigarette. But you would be a fool to think that’s what she meant in this context. It’s pretty obvious she was singing about dead gay person.
In this context, it's a pun. Yes, it refers to a gay person's death, and she illustrates people's cold reactions with the paralleled pun of a burnt out cigarette. "Just another dead fag to you, that's all / Just another light missing / on a long taxi ride..." She's saying that the death of this gay friend meant no more to these people than a burnt out cigarette.
In this context, it's a pun. Yes, it refers to a gay person's death, and she illustrates people's cold reactions with the paralleled pun of a burnt out cigarette. "Just another dead fag to you, that's all / Just another light missing / on a long taxi ride..." She's saying that the death of this gay friend meant no more to these people than a burnt out cigarette.
@toxicwasteforbrains I think it means both. I've always pictured it as watching the light from a cigarette go out in the window of the taxi next to you while you're sitting in a taxi yourself, and thinking of how the person ("dead fag") disappeared just as quickly and nonchalantly. Maybe the person whose "last cigarette" you are down to is your lover, who doesn't care about the passing of gay people, and you disagree with that, so when you look at this cigarette you think, when this lover says "we are one," it's just a bunch of crap, because...
@toxicwasteforbrains I think it means both. I've always pictured it as watching the light from a cigarette go out in the window of the taxi next to you while you're sitting in a taxi yourself, and thinking of how the person ("dead fag") disappeared just as quickly and nonchalantly. Maybe the person whose "last cigarette" you are down to is your lover, who doesn't care about the passing of gay people, and you disagree with that, so when you look at this cigarette you think, when this lover says "we are one," it's just a bunch of crap, because you and he/she are really not of the same mind. Maybe the "last cigarette" is like "the last straw" - if this person shows one more inhumane trait about themselves, you're done with them.