Honestly, before reading the lyrics I always heard it as "I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch", as if to say he was made of something heavier than those thick metal cables - super-hero or extra-terrestrial like - and impervious to any ill effects of doing so. I still hear it that way...
Honestly, before reading the lyrics I always heard it as "I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch", as if to say he was made of something heavier than those thick metal cables - super-hero or extra-terrestrial like - and impervious to any ill effects of doing so. I still hear it that way...
The day you try to succeed, the day you try to win, to make it to the top, you can fail miserably and hurt people, or win miserably and hurt people. Basically, the cheaty way to get to the top of the proverbial "totem pole" is by letting others suffer. "Dangled from the power lines" to me refers to being high up, but being barely able to support yourself in a risky position like this.
The day you try to succeed, the day you try to win, to make it to the top, you can fail miserably and hurt people, or win miserably and hurt people. Basically, the cheaty way to get to the top of the proverbial "totem pole" is by letting others suffer. "Dangled from the power lines" to me refers to being high up, but being barely able to support yourself in a risky position like this.
it is defenitely about waking up and deciding that it was time to 'live' and 'win'...which meant to join the rat race, lie, support capitalism...
anyone know what this verse means??
The day I tried to win I dangled from the power lines And let the martyrs stretch Singing
Honestly, before reading the lyrics I always heard it as "I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch", as if to say he was made of something heavier than those thick metal cables - super-hero or extra-terrestrial like - and impervious to any ill effects of doing so. I still hear it that way...
Honestly, before reading the lyrics I always heard it as "I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch", as if to say he was made of something heavier than those thick metal cables - super-hero or extra-terrestrial like - and impervious to any ill effects of doing so. I still hear it that way...
The day you try to succeed, the day you try to win, to make it to the top, you can fail miserably and hurt people, or win miserably and hurt people. Basically, the cheaty way to get to the top of the proverbial "totem pole" is by letting others suffer. "Dangled from the power lines" to me refers to being high up, but being barely able to support yourself in a risky position like this.
The day you try to succeed, the day you try to win, to make it to the top, you can fail miserably and hurt people, or win miserably and hurt people. Basically, the cheaty way to get to the top of the proverbial "totem pole" is by letting others suffer. "Dangled from the power lines" to me refers to being high up, but being barely able to support yourself in a risky position like this.