Song of Joy - Nick cave
Posted: 28 Mar 2009, 20:52
Is the bloke who tells the story also actually the murderer?
Oh definitelyGollum's Cock wrote:Is the bloke who tells the story also actually the murderer?
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Re: Song of Joy - Nick cave
Posted: 28 Mar 2009, 22:27
Re: Song of Joy - Nick cave
Posted: 28 Mar 2009, 22:41
Anything more concrete about the demise of Hilda, Hattie and Holly?Big Si wrote:Oh definitelyGollum's Cock wrote:Is the bloke who tells the story also actually the murderer?
Posted: 29 Mar 2009, 06:57
He gives it away in the third verse, when you look back over it:
"farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
is from Milton's Paradise Lost.
"farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
is from Milton's Paradise Lost.
Posted: 29 Mar 2009, 13:39
Nick Cave's songs are always written from the point of view of the murderer 
Posted: 30 Mar 2009, 12:12
'The sun to me is dark and silent as the moon' is also from Milton. This time Samson Agonistes.
Posted: 30 Mar 2009, 14:07
Really? Thanks. I've never read Samson Agonistes, just Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (which I am apparently alone in liking, but that's understandable, I guess. Not nearly as much action).abridged wrote:'The sun to me is dark and silent as the moon' is also from Milton. This time Samson Agonistes.
Posted: 30 Mar 2009, 14:40
Thanks, I always really knew it I just did n't want to accept it.