NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[Iris Sirius]

We have sympathy for the Devil, brilliant!

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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