NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[Joe Allonby]

I understood the lyrics to be inspired by "The Master and the Margarita".


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Godard liked the son well enough to feature it a movie!
>
> Has anyone who knows this song considered that the last verse subverts
> the name that one is likely to have guessed beforehand, namely "the
> devil?" All of the conflated opposites at the suggest that the writer
> believes that things are not as they seem, and that, while people are
> more comfortable calling the entity that causes tragedies "Lucifer" or
> "the Devil," the entity that is often described by some people, e.g.
> the Westboro Baptist church, as one that will send your soul to hell,
> i.e. "lay your soul to waste" if you don't pay tribute, i.e. "use all
> your well-learned politess" is God, not Lucifer.
>
> It makes the song a whole lot more interesting, IMO.
>
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20