Ok, there could be multiple layers of meaning, Rasputina loves to do that, but I think you guys are overlooking the obvious. I think Rasputina was just having fun making a story out of these lyrics based on simple scence. It all makes sense if you look at the periodic table of elements and know a little science facts.
Saline, as mentioned in the song is literally just that... Saline. Everything in the song is about the geological/chemical properties of salt and related chemicals. Consider these points:
"In a prehistoric dried-up lake
A million years after the last earthquake
There lived a little girl who loved to bake
The only thing she made was cake
And all she used was salt
That's all she had - it's not her fault
Saline, the salt lake queen"
In this first stanza they are talking about an area like the great salt lake in Utah.
"She used a rudimentary substance for
An ingredient that she could pour
Into a chalice she carved out of stone
Her only friend, it was a big black crow
That flew with love
He would fly high above
Look back at her below"
Little known fact, crows love salt and salty foods (though too much is bad for them.) There are so many crows around the salt lake area in Utah that the city passed an ordance to allow them to be hunted to cut down on thier numbers!
"Oh Saline
Only seventeen
Swollen up with pride"
Chlorine is #17 on the periodic table. from wikipedia: "The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride (common salt), has been known since ancient times."
"Oh Saline
Under desert skies
She's a bromide
She makes green fire in a tunnel in the woods
And she's got yellow eyes"
Here they are literally making a reference to her being a bromide (salt family.) Also, boron compounds turn flames green. I don't know the last reference about yellow eyes, but I bet if I dug deep enough I'd find that certian salt/boron family crystals have yellow rings in them or something.. The rest is just repeat and lyrics thrown in for interest.
The women in Rasputina are wicked smart, and this is just the kind of clever idea they would use to spin out a "story" in a song. I'm surprised no one else noticed it!
Ok, there could be multiple layers of meaning, Rasputina loves to do that, but I think you guys are overlooking the obvious. I think Rasputina was just having fun making a story out of these lyrics based on simple scence. It all makes sense if you look at the periodic table of elements and know a little science facts.
Saline, as mentioned in the song is literally just that... Saline. Everything in the song is about the geological/chemical properties of salt and related chemicals. Consider these points:
"In a prehistoric dried-up lake A million years after the last earthquake There lived a little girl who loved to bake The only thing she made was cake
And all she used was salt That's all she had - it's not her fault Saline, the salt lake queen"
In this first stanza they are talking about an area like the great salt lake in Utah.
"She used a rudimentary substance for An ingredient that she could pour Into a chalice she carved out of stone Her only friend, it was a big black crow
That flew with love He would fly high above Look back at her below"
Little known fact, crows love salt and salty foods (though too much is bad for them.) There are so many crows around the salt lake area in Utah that the city passed an ordance to allow them to be hunted to cut down on thier numbers!
"Oh Saline Only seventeen Swollen up with pride"
Chlorine is #17 on the periodic table. from wikipedia: "The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride (common salt), has been known since ancient times."
"Oh Saline Under desert skies She's a bromide She makes green fire in a tunnel in the woods And she's got yellow eyes"
Here they are literally making a reference to her being a bromide (salt family.) Also, boron compounds turn flames green. I don't know the last reference about yellow eyes, but I bet if I dug deep enough I'd find that certian salt/boron family crystals have yellow rings in them or something.. The rest is just repeat and lyrics thrown in for interest.
The women in Rasputina are wicked smart, and this is just the kind of clever idea they would use to spin out a "story" in a song. I'm surprised no one else noticed it!
@nightfall29 Best interpretation IMO, I agree with this.
@nightfall29 Best interpretation IMO, I agree with this.