far parade - the term

[jost 7]

just a quick help from the English please. what does far parade mean? Is there any connotation to this term, which I assumed? its not just a big parade? thanks

[MrChris]

It’s not a phrase I’ve come across before

[paint it black]

Foreign fields and empire part deux. Probably

[mh]

My money's on an obscure bilingual pun.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

i thought surely some reference to the Soft Parade by the Doors? but you never know with Andrew.

[paint it black]

i thought surely some reference to the Soft Parade by the Doors? but you never know with Andrew.

It seems to me that the decent men and women enrolled into the parade ground and fought in far off lands in order to protect decorum and good use of the English language, and yet this generation has forgotten that sacrifice in favour of floating fashion, crappy newspapers and the likes. I don't see any of Soft Parade.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

i thought surely some reference to the Soft Parade by the Doors? but you never know with Andrew.

It seems to me that the decent men and women enrolled into the parade ground and fought in far off lands in order to protect decorum and good use of the English language, and yet this generation has forgotten that sacrifice in favour of floating fashion, crappy newspapers and the likes. I don't see any of Soft Parade.

If you read both sets of lyrics side by side (which i hadn't until now because references tend to be suggestive at best and often utterly obscure -especially Eldritch's) they could be presenting the antithesis of each others idea. Certainly the far parade is distinctly different from, , if not diametrically opposed to, the soft parade.

of course if you pseud-around with any shit for long enough then present it with sufficient pretension you can sound like an expert whilst being nowhere near the facts. which is why i dislike lyric interpretations unless they have come from either the writer or someone quoting a source of some sort. Indeed.

[alanm]

obligatory poetry reference: https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10039341

[MrChris]

obligatory poetry reference: https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10039341

Good spot. Don’t know the poem, but since it references public school and Oxford, there are definitely resonances (with Von, but also with our current leaders).

[alanm]

I suppose there's a couple other parallels in that poem:

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BOOK, lie you there: such borrowed wings                       ::             No-one reads the book of lies 
watching well Their heroes' powers                             ::             From heroine to heroin

But also, lots that isn't.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

obligatory poetry reference: https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10039341

Good spot. Don’t know the poem, but since it references public school and Oxford, there are definitely resonances (with Von, but also with our current leaders).

we have leaders?