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Gorgeous song; music maybe not what one would expect by the title. As I've mentioned before, song lyrics have almost always been a secondary consideration to me because I could rarely understand them, articulationwise. I tend to listen to the vocals first as another instrument in the arrangement. Then, if I can understand the words as coherent phrases in English, fine. But I'm a pretty literal-minded guy, so I feel real proud of myself if I can extract the composer's intended meaning from roundabout poetics.
E's lyrics are very personal, always. People who know something about the personal tragedies he endured as a younger man may have a clue about the enigmatic lyrics of this song. I happened to think of playing it for you tonight because as we approach the climax of the Christian Holy Week it comes to mind that (1) some traditions hold that Christ spent the Saturday after his crucifixion in Hell and (2) we never learned about this part of the religion in Sunday School or even confirmation as young teenagers in the Methodist denomination. At this point I will invite The Minister's Daughter to shed any light on this, as available. (Allegory and all.) Also, Beer-D and/or Big Rock Head should feel free to disambiguate the content of the lyrics to this haunting Eels composition.
Your Lucky Day In Hell, Eels (1996, from "Beautiful Freak," Dreamworks DRMD-50001), via YouTube, embedded for noncommercial critical discussion and educational purposes.
Paternal abandonment? Gender/affection issues? Quest for self actualization and existential sense of purpose? If he's making progress on emotional scars and art comes out, bonus. You go girl. "The tyranny of [unmarred] beauty is [even more] short lived." (to reimagine a quote from Socrates so as to render it fit for purpose).
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A lot of his self-disclosed history is out there, in song and book. Probably no need to speculate too much However, E is an enigmatic fellow. But then you're sort of an enigmatic fellow, too.
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