Down With Love
Rebelling Against Romance: Bobby Darin's Anthem
Lyrics
Down with love, the flowers and rice and shoes
Rejecting love's traditional symbols like flowers, rice, and wedding shoes.
Down with love, the root of all midnight blues
Opposing love as the cause of midnight blues, suggesting heartbreak or sadness.
Down with things that give you that well known ping
Rejecting things that evoke nostalgic or emotional feelings related to love.
Take that moon wrap it in cellophane
Metaphorically packaging the moon, a symbol of romance, in cellophane, perhaps to devalue its allure.
Down with love, let's liquidate all its friends
Advocating for the elimination of anything associated with love.
Moon and June and roses and rainbow's ends
Rejecting traditional symbols of romance like the moon, June, roses, and rainbows.
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Rejecting songs that express longing or emotional pain related to night and day.
Down with love, yes, take it away, away
Expressing a strong desire to get rid of love entirely.
Away, far away
Emphasizing the need to distance oneself from love.
Give it back to the birds and the bees
Suggesting giving love back to nature, represented by birds and bees.
And the Viennese
Referencing Viennese, possibly as a symbol of classical romanticism, rejecting it too.
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Rejecting romantic and foolish gazes or expressions of love.
Down with sighs and down with Cupid
Opposing deep sighs and the influence of Cupid, the god of love.
Brother, let's stuff that dove
Encouraging the rejection or dismissal of the dove, a symbol of love and peace.
Down with love
Overall rejection of love and its various expressions.
Down with love let's liquidate all its friends
Reiterating the call to eliminate everything associated with love.
The moons, the Junes, the roses and rainbow's ends
Continuing to reject symbols of romance like moons, Junes, roses, and rainbows.
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Reiterating the rejection of songs expressing day and night-related emotions.
Down with love, yes, take it away, away
Emphasizing the strong desire to remove love entirely.
Far away, so very, very far away
Further emphasizing the need to distance oneself from love.
Give it back to the birds and the bees
Suggesting returning love to the natural world, birds, bees, and Viennese.
And especially the Viennese
Specifically highlighting Viennese, possibly critiquing romantic cultural influences.
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Rejecting romantic and foolish gazes or expressions of love.
Down with sighs and down with Cupid
Opposing deep sighs and the influence of Cupid, the god of love.
Brother, let's stuff that dove
Encouraging the rejection or dismissal of the dove, a symbol of love and peace.
Down with love
Finalizing the rejection of love in all its forms.
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