the psalm of lydia...

[dreaming neon darkspot]

okay, i feel dumb ... just what is this song about?

who are the pigs lydia's slaying, and why? the way the song ends, it's like a story that's open and will have to continue on a future album, like how Sentient 6 leaves off with the start of some battle/conflict where the robots are going to strike against the humans ... but just what is the story with Lydia?

 

[neal]

who knows. i prefer to sing along with what i think the lyrics are, rather than actually read them or something. do you think im some kind of fan or something? geez.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I've wondered about this myself. It seems to share some common themes with some of warrels other lyrics, but I havent really been able to peice it together.

 

[Enemy242]

fuuucken trippy shit brah

 

[flu boy]

lydia is a girl. she lives in a shoe with her mother. they got a lot of kids. its really sad but makes for a cool song.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

little red riding hood's about rape
london bridge is about the plague
the little old woman is the shoe is about child abuse
baa baa black sheep is racist
georgy-porridgy is about a sexual aggressor
rock-a-bye baby is about babies falling out of trees ...

why do people read/sing these things to their children at night?

 

[Reminiscence]

lydia is a girl. she lives in a shoe with her mother. they got a lot of kids. its really sad but makes for a cool song.

You are my hero.

 

[flu boy]

You are my hero.

...just try'in to help...giddy up cowboy...:hotjump:

 

[neal]

i must commend this combination of two of our finest heroes.

 

[El Diablo Fantastico]

london bridge is about the plague

No it's not, you're thinking of "ring a ring o' roses", london bridge is just about london bridge and how it was built and rebuilt over the years

 

[teredd]

She sold Purple dye in the days of the bible.

 

[Mike]

I think Lydia = topic of DNB album.

 

[lizard]

ring around the roses is indeed about the Black Death

and ref Psalm of Lydia, I think it is just Warrel's wordplay about a former girlfriend's palm

 

[Liverslapper]

ring around the roses is indeed about the Black Death

and ref Psalm of Lydia, I think it is just Warrel's wordplay about a former girlfriend's palm

LOL

 

[ZANEX]

ring around the roses is indeed about the Black Death



and ref Psalm of Lydia, I think it is just Warrel's wordplay about a former girlfriend's palm

"pocketful of posies, ashes, ashes we all fall down" Yes, indeed about the Black Death.



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['Nife [Spirit Crusher]]

I think Lydia = topic of DNB album.

Thats what I think too.

 

[Lunar Still]

The topics of most of Warrell's lyrics are typically very hard to determine for me, but then again I could be stupid. I figured out a pretty good amount of TGE, but there are still a lot of songs on it that just stump the hell out of me. I'm definitely not well-read enough.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Yea I think it plays into the DNB theme, but there seem to be more themes present and at work, at least in my mind.

 

[Tee]

She sold Purple dye in the days of the bible.

old testament

I tried to find more about it (ok, I tried only once, I don't have patience to do the researches) but didn't find anything important. who'd know with that 'devil's workshop' mind.... ....

 

[WinterSolstice]

Maybe it literally is a trippy dream he had when he was in a diabetic coma. Those painkillers are something else...

Or to quote Rick James: "Cocaine's a hell of a drug...!"