I always thought it was in the same vain as God's Mistake. The idea that you have to kill love to have peace of mind makes sense from a point of view. Love is one of those great things that makes no real logical sense and sometimes if you want to get anything done y ou have to just kill it. You can't be pure or kind you just have to kill love. After all it was God's mistake.
Now as far as the Buffalo STanding line I've never figured that one out.
I love that song, though I've never been quite sure how to interpret the lyrics. Weary cynicism, I think? Maybe more like ambivalent resignation. This sense that maybe he doesn't want to feel the way he feels, it's not a deliberate choice, but "it's just where he has found himself", keeping danger at bay by being ruthless rather than pure and kind. There's a sense of tiredness - it doesn't matter who's right or wrong, it's about figuring out a way to live your life, your "same old song". Maybe you survive by being less emotional, less loving than others want you to be - which echoes "Cold" (one of my favorite Roland songs).
Don't know what the buffalo thing is all about, though it vaguely reminds me of the "head strong like a horse" stuff from "Break it Down Again"
abdfajsdhsbgm, not one of my favorite songs but some of my favorite roland lyrics ever.
however, i've never gotten the whole song interpreted, just each individual piece. it's easy to say "he finds it easier to get rid of love than experience it", but who knows, based on the rest of the words?
Orzabal had said of this album that the lyrics aren't supposed to be especially meaningful and ofcourse years ago I took that as a challenge to write up a detailed "reading" of every song on the album, which I posted to the mailing list I was on at the time. *laughs* So here's what I said about "Kill Love:"
"I don't know what to make of the "Buffalo Standing" business in Kill Love, except for that buffalo run in herds but stand alone, they were hunted almost to extinction, and they are pretty hard to knock down, I'd venture. Not looking to test that, because, as we know, buffalo charge (but not with American Express.) Still wondering if maybe Roland's up on the Native American mythology? Could someone please buy this boy a dream catcher?"
Wanting to do a little more crossreferencing than I didn't do there, I pulled out The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheebrant. I looked up "Buffalo" and it told me to look up "Ox." So I looked of "Ox" and found nothing about Native American mythology. I did find
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Now as far as the Buffalo STanding line I've never figured that one out.
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Don't know what the buffalo thing is all about, though it vaguely reminds me of the "head strong like a horse" stuff from "Break it Down Again"
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however, i've never gotten the whole song interpreted, just each individual piece. it's easy to say "he finds it easier to get rid of love than experience it", but who knows, based on the rest of the words?
however, the buffalo still elude me completely..
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"I don't know what to make of the "Buffalo Standing" business in Kill Love, except for that buffalo run in herds but stand alone, they were hunted almost to extinction, and they are pretty hard to knock down, I'd venture. Not looking to test that, because, as we know, buffalo charge (but not with American Express.) Still wondering if maybe Roland's up on the Native American mythology? Could someone please buy this boy a dream catcher?"
Wanting to do a little more crossreferencing than I didn't do there, I pulled out The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheebrant. I looked up "Buffalo" and it told me to look up "Ox." So I looked of "Ox" and found nothing about Native American mythology. I did find ( ... )
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