A car crash (named Billy)
A spark that caused the great fire of London (named Red Harry)
the great fire was one of the things that eventually led to the end of the bubonic plague
A cut on Hitler's knee (named Georgie)
Georgie could be a reference to General George Patton. I find no reference to an infected knee wound involving Hitler, though there are rumours that he had contracted syphillis.
Someone's mother (named Jane) who appears to be a storm that sneezes away a continent.
The viewpoint of the singer is that of water. He is rain falling on the rusted remains of the car-crash, rain that puts out the great fire of London, water (that had to be "kidnapped") that was used to clean the wound on Hitler's knee, and finally the water of the sea, who with the power of Jane the Hurricane made a myth by hiding a continent. This would seem to point to the legend of Atlantis sinking below the waves.
Of course, by the time the story becomes a stage play, their original names have been forgotten...but not completely lost, as the chorus repeats...
whoa...
To me the song felt so compelling because it played a lot simpler
outcasts, freaks, they spent a wild life, died and were forgotten.
Billy was a carcrash, he was a wreck
harry was a spark: a firebrand.
Ghosts that had a name, someone will remember, the poet is the kiss blown by the maker to let them live on.
whoa...
To me the song felt so compelling because it played a lot simpler
outcasts, freaks, they spent a wild life, died and were forgotten.
Billy was a carcrash, he was a wreck
harry was a spark: a firebrand.
Ghosts that had a name, someone will remember, the poet is the kiss blown by the maker to let them live on.
A car crash (named Billy) A spark that caused the great fire of London (named Red Harry) the great fire was one of the things that eventually led to the end of the bubonic plague A cut on Hitler's knee (named Georgie) Georgie could be a reference to General George Patton. I find no reference to an infected knee wound involving Hitler, though there are rumours that he had contracted syphillis. Someone's mother (named Jane) who appears to be a storm that sneezes away a continent.
The viewpoint of the singer is that of water. He is rain falling on the rusted remains of the car-crash, rain that puts out the great fire of London, water (that had to be "kidnapped") that was used to clean the wound on Hitler's knee, and finally the water of the sea, who with the power of Jane the Hurricane made a myth by hiding a continent. This would seem to point to the legend of Atlantis sinking below the waves.
Of course, by the time the story becomes a stage play, their original names have been forgotten...but not completely lost, as the chorus repeats...
whoa... To me the song felt so compelling because it played a lot simpler outcasts, freaks, they spent a wild life, died and were forgotten. Billy was a carcrash, he was a wreck harry was a spark: a firebrand. Ghosts that had a name, someone will remember, the poet is the kiss blown by the maker to let them live on.
whoa... To me the song felt so compelling because it played a lot simpler outcasts, freaks, they spent a wild life, died and were forgotten. Billy was a carcrash, he was a wreck harry was a spark: a firebrand. Ghosts that had a name, someone will remember, the poet is the kiss blown by the maker to let them live on.