Cosmos on 7/7/2007 at 19:18
Read the following lyrics and tell me she's
NOT singing about some zombie or at least a zombie-like person.
Quote:
He's got a broken voice and a twisted smile,
Guess he's been that way for quite awhile,
Got blood on his shoes and mud on his brim,Did he do it to himself or was it done to him?People think he don't look well,But all he needs from what I can tell,
Is someone to help wash away all the paint,
From his
purple hands before it gets too late.
I saw him stand alone ... under a broke street light,So sincere ... singing silent night,
But the trees were full ... and the grass was green,
It was the sweetest thing I had ever seen.He may move slow,
But that don't mean he's going nowhere,He may be moving slow,
But that don't mean he's going nowhere. Look over the lyrics again... Covered in blood and mud, slow-moving (most likely lurching), purple hands (signifying death), etc. It sure seems like a description of the un-dead. He's standing under a
BROKEN street lamp--perhaps in the graveyard of some haunted chapel. You can almost hear some woodsie/pagan ambience when she says, "But the trees were full ... and the grass was green, It was the sweetest thing I had ever seen." In the first verse, she wonders if he made himself that way or if someone had cursed him with un-death.
I've been a fan of Norah Jones for a long time, and have listened to this album many times, but it wasn't until recently that I realized this song is about a zombie! :joke:
Xenith on 8/7/2007 at 08:56
hehe that's pretty interesting:laff: I guess you can take that as a zombie description... than again you can also take it as a description of an old murderous drunken taffer:p
