Rhino Eating Raspberries
Reflections on Loss and Existential Struggles: Rhino and Raspberry Sorrows
Lyrics
You throw your past into the volcano and leave
You discard your past by symbolically throwing it into a volcano and move on.
Like a rhino eating raspberries I grieve
Expressing sorrow or mourning using the metaphor of a rhino eating raspberries.
And the young girls with grey hair have all gone
Women who have aged and lost their youthful appearance are no longer present.
Justice when there is none
Reflecting on the absence of justice in certain situations.
And the ego is adjusted by light who knew
The ego is influenced or balanced by an unexpected source of light.
My ill fitting is comfortable around you
Feeling at ease with someone even if the relationship is not perfect.
We ate Epoisse in the Camargue like you said
Recalling a shared experience of eating Epoisse in the Camargue region as instructed.
In Zanzibar you nursed a man to death
Referencing a memory in Zanzibar where someone cared for a dying man.
Her oxygen rich candle from the lake burns blue
Describing a candle with oxygen from a lake that burns with a blue flame.
You learn more losing love than virtue
Highlighting the idea that one learns more from losing love than from virtuous actions.
I wanna womb and a beard and a bomb
Expressing a desire for nurturing (womb), maturity (beard), and destructive power (bomb).
Justice where there is none
Reiterating the absence of justice in certain situations.
And the mavericks hang from a bow below the bridge
Depicting unconventional individuals hanging from a bow under a bridge.
Judge shouted anything else I can help you with
Describing a judge offering assistance with a sarcastic tone.
The eleventh commandment no one will believe
The eleventh commandment, likely metaphorical, that nobody believes.
Like a rhino eating raspberries I grieve
Repetition of the metaphorical grieving process using a rhino eating raspberries.
You dream stronger from someone else's bed
Dreams becoming stronger when in someone else's bed.
The writers took back all the books you never read
Writers reclaiming unread books, possibly suggesting unfulfilled potential.
Worlds getting busy making what's to come
The world becoming busier in creating future events.
Justice where there is none
Reiteration of the absence of justice in certain situations.
And I knelt by the bed where you laid
Recalling a moment of kneeling by a bed and praying.
Like god lifted his skirt and I prayed
A metaphorical scene of praying as if God revealed something significant.
Remedios the beauty take me with you when ya leave
Referring to Remedios the beauty and expressing a desire to accompany them when leaving.
Like a rhino eating raspberries I grieve
Repetition of the metaphorical grieving process using a rhino eating raspberries.
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