This song carries both chaos and inevitability. The fast tempo of the music gives a feeling of unstoppability. The pendulum keeps swinging, inevitably. But the destination is chaos - life and fire and lunacy - and it is unescapable. The frantic, manic background screeching is like a barely restrained psychosis, threatening to rise to the surface and overrun its unstable mind. "Hold on to yourself" lest the insanity wins. But it is going to win, eventually. Nick Cave's novel "The Death of Bunny Munro" has the same sense of inevitable destruction, a 'train wreck in slow motion'.
"Jesus makes the flowers grow all around the scene of her collision" - beautifully ironic, as it was Jesus that caused the collision, ie. it was God's will that the crash occurred.
This song carries both chaos and inevitability. The fast tempo of the music gives a feeling of unstoppability. The pendulum keeps swinging, inevitably. But the destination is chaos - life and fire and lunacy - and it is unescapable. The frantic, manic background screeching is like a barely restrained psychosis, threatening to rise to the surface and overrun its unstable mind. "Hold on to yourself" lest the insanity wins. But it is going to win, eventually. Nick Cave's novel "The Death of Bunny Munro" has the same sense of inevitable destruction, a 'train wreck in slow motion'.
"Jesus makes the flowers grow all around the scene of her collision" - beautifully ironic, as it was Jesus that caused the collision, ie. it was God's will that the crash occurred.