| re: The Devil's F'n Playground | |
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Vin 12:49 pm UTC 08/01/08 |
| In reply to: | re: The Devil's F'n Playground - Smeghead 08:15 pm UTC 07/30/08 |
| Looking at it again, I think you are right; Jim probably wrote the rough DP lyrics (no, not THAT DP you dirty minds!) and then thought, "Hey, here's a place I could stick that killer 'Paradise Lost' chorus I've got kicking around with no verse structure. Sweet!' I can totally relate; having a song title or a chorus in mind that you love, with no verses, is like having a beautiful severed head laying around your apartment. You want that head to have a body and come to life real, real bad. So bad, in fact, that you start to think about going out and hiring a hooker, maybe a little homely in the face, but with a knock-out bod, bringing her back to your place and cutting off her head, just so you can stick the other head, the one you love, on that smoking hot body, knowing in the back of your mind that it doesn't quite fit, but deluding yourself to the contrary, just so you can stop thinking about that beautiful severed head and move on to the next one, which will ideally slip from the creative womb in one cohesive, fully realized piece. Now, your place or mine?????? > The lyrics don't seem very cohesive to me. Looks like he > was just trying to work in the use of Paradise from his > sequel idea and the Final at Bat line... Sort of more > frankensonging that doesn't really have good meaning on > its own. The Hook of Neverland is a Nazi Death Camp > survivor who now lives in an antiseptic bubble city of the > future and disguises himself to hunt doen children and > destroy their innocence or murder them. His one great > regret is that he can't recall his childhood and that he > appears to have never lived for the moment and his > greatest fear is losing his daughter. > > > No matter > > How tragic the loss > > So I just wistfully clicked on my link to Jim's blog, > > shocked to see that his last posting was a ghastly 9 > > months ago, and I wound up re-reading his lyrics to "The > > Devil's Playground," and was surprised to find them much > > more striking and poignant than I remembered them being > > the first go-round. > > > > Anyway, Jim uses his "Paradise Lost" chorus in it, as he > > makes it a point to mention, and I had this thought: > > > > TDP is a song for Hook who, I assume, is a villain > > (somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that). Now, the PL > > chorus seems tailored to a heroic character, UNLESS Hook > > is just very twisted, which could make for a very cool > > moment, some sadistic bad guy waxing misunderstood and > > lamenting that he failed in the Good Fight (which I guess > > most people would perceive as the Bad Fight? I mean, > > really, what Paradise does Hook perceive that he fought > > for, only to come up an inch shy of the G-spot?) > > > > Can any of you Neverland historians shed some light on > > potential motivation for Hook here? > > > > "No matter > > How heavy the cost > > To this very day > > I can stand tall and say: > > I fought for Paradise > > But Paradise lost > > I fought for Paradise > > And Paradise lost. > > It wasn’t your fault or mine > > Wasn’t this it wasn’t that > > But Paradise lost > > In the final at bat > > Paradise lost > > In the last at bat." > > | |
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