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By: taxford@y7mail.com
6/05/2009
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I was listening to my iPod the other day and a song came up by the Pi.xies, titled 'Gouge Away' from their 1989 album 'Doolittle' and is the song we hear in the car when Jack is driving to the funeral parlor in the season 4 finale. When I first heard it I recognised it but didn't think much of it.
When actually listening to the lyrics of the song, I can only think that this song was purposefully chosen! I can't believe the detail the writers put into this show! Now bear with me...
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Missy aggravation
Some sacred questions
You stroke my locks
Some marjiuana
If you got some
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms
You spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm
With holy fingers
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Chained to the pillars
A 3 day party
I break the walls
And kill us all
With holy fingers
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
The song is actually about the hero Samson from the Old Testament. God gave Samson super-human strength ("holy fingers") for his own divine purpose. He was betrayed by the woman he loved, Delilah ("Missy aggravation"), when he told her the secret ("sacred questions") to his strength was his hair ("You stroke my locks"). Similar to the snake that tricked Eve in the Garden of Eden ("sleeping on your belly"), Delilah tricks Samson. He is captured by his enemies after Delilah cuts off his hair and they break his arms and gouge out his eyes. They chained him to a pillar in one of their temples and had a celebration and after 3 days, Samson's hair grew back, and he pulled down the pillars and the temple with it, crushing his enemies as well as himself.
This subtly maintains Lost's religious and mythology theme that continues to run throughout the show. Again, I must say, there is so much attention to detail! |
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By: taxford@y7mail.com
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| To continue, it is thought that Samson is a Jewish version of Hercules. Hercules also had super-human strength, and after killing his own children as a result from being driven mad by Hera (effectively his step-mum and the goddess of childbirth), Hercules, to make up for this terrible sin, he goes about his 12 labours, the final one being the capture of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades and is also the name given to the Smoke Monster! |
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By: jess815
9/05/2009
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Specifically, these were the lyrics we heard :
"Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms
You spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm
With holy fingers"
Very interesting.
Also in Whatever Happened, Happened - the song Kate is listening to in her car, Patsy Cline's "She's Got You", is very symbolic of her relationship with Sawyer and the fact that he's with Juliet now :
"The only thing different, the only thing new
I've got your picture, she's got you" |
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