"Yeah, you tell me that this is not a dream
I've become a steel spring"
I believe this is a reference to the Peter Weir film Gallipoli, in which the protagonist is a promising athlete - a sprinter - whose coach uses the following mantra:
What are your legs?
Steel springs!
What are they going to do?
Hurl me down the track!
How fast can you run?
As fast as a leopard!
How fast are you gonna run?
Faster than a leopard!
The character later dies in the push from the beach trenches at Gallipoli, so this phrase from his sprinter's mantra seems likely to be a bleak allusion to the death of a westerner in a foreign land (Daniel Pearl).
"Yeah, you tell me that this is not a dream I've become a steel spring"
I believe this is a reference to the Peter Weir film Gallipoli, in which the protagonist is a promising athlete - a sprinter - whose coach uses the following mantra:
What are your legs? Steel springs! What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track! How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard! How fast are you gonna run? Faster than a leopard!
The character later dies in the push from the beach trenches at Gallipoli, so this phrase from his sprinter's mantra seems likely to be a bleak allusion to the death of a westerner in a foreign land (Daniel Pearl).