| Custom Kings – Rose Pickles Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I was surprised to find Custom Kings on here seeing as they're are relatively unknown though they are awesome. miss vicious is right. I didn't know the meaning behind the song until a few days ago when I started reading Cloudstreet and the name Rose Pickles opened the first chapter. It's a really beautiful book and the song is beautiful to match, haunting and really sweet. The woman's ghostly voice at the beginning and the sound of cicada's all the way through are so perfect for the song and the story. I don't think it's just my hearing, isn't the second line/second verse 'I gave her a green bottle gilded with gold'...it doesn't make sense the way it's written at any rate. Also 'the girl just wants to get wasted' could both be talking about her mother's drinking habit and also the periods when Rose starves herself = won't eat the food and becomes wasted. 'I read the best words the mans ever written' seems to be commenting on her relationship with Toby and how though he was intellectual and a way escape from her past, she still always came back to Cloudstreet. |
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| The Pogues – The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's a really good explanation, I knew about and loved the folklore twined into the song but I didn't know about Irish nationalist themes or who the people were. Thanks :) | |
| The Pogues – And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Beautifully tragic song. It was strange as an Aussie to hear someone asking where Waltzing Matilda came from... |
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| Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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*major spoilers for book* For everyone saying that the song is just based on the end of the book, I hate to say it but it's not. It jumps back and forth a bit but starts off at childhood 'Out on the wiley, windy moors We'd roll and fall in green'. Then progresses through the story of Heathcliff leaving and Cathy when she falls for Edgar, after talking to Nelly of her dream 'Bad dreams in the night. They told me I was going to lose the fight'. (the fight being trying to keep both Heathcliff and Edgar, which nearly killed her) The chorus happens at the beginning of the book, but because of the narration it actually happens after the main part of the story (if that makes sense). Cathy never comes directly to Heathcliff but instead to Lockwood who is staying in her childhood room, after wandering the moors as a ghost for twenty years. Heathcliff was the one who wanted her to appear to him, so he wouldn't be abandoned and soulless, free to join her in death. Though it takes the whole book to tell their story, Heathcliff does actually die soon after she comes to the window as a ghost after having waited twenty years to know that she hadn't just left him in the 'dark abyss'. 'Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely, On the other side from you.' could be both about when she's chosen to marry Edgar (Heathcliff's opposite) and also when they're separated by death. As for the line 'Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream, My only master. ' I really like it but in a way it's not true. Though Heathcliff was often the main factor in her choices and she was ruled by her love for him, Cathy was also caught by her desire for society and that's sorta why she chose Edgar. Edgar also became a master to her, not in the same way, but she never could choose between them, even in death (the locks of hair in the locket, buried between them). Anyway, that was rather long but I felt the need to say it. Love the song, in case I didn't mention that :) |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Has anyone watched or read Perfume- The Story of A Murderer? It reminded me of this song in a way because he's targeting the most beautiful and innocent of victims, and preserving the very essence of them. I love the fact that they're 'wild' roses, it gives the song such a lush imagery, like the line 'bloody and wild' it sounds so lovely yet when you picture it it's actually really chilling. |
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