| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure all of that business about the Lorraine Motel is regarding the assassination of MLK. He was shot as he was standing on the balcony off room 306. The motel is now the National Civil Rights Museum. The man preaching in a language that's completely new is MLK. I get a strong sense of existential dread from this song. The whole idea of sitting in a "basement patio" (What is that, exactly? Probably just a dark, sad basement.) while girls walk by outside with roses in bloom. It implies to me that all of these things: the Higgs Boson, Miley Cyrus and celebrity culture, the deaths of our revolutionaries, the legends that we surround ourselves with, are weighing him down. I think this is one of the "biggest" songs Nick has ever written. It's arguably the best song of 2013. |
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