Re: Devils Arcade Meaning ????

On Oct 17, 5:17 pm, "Zeke" <yakzoom...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How could...

Remember the morning we dug up your gun
The worms in the barrel, the hangin' sun

Be any more specific?

They went out to the yard together (on a sunny morning) and dug up his gun.
There were worms in the barrel. Can a writer be any more specific?

the words are the words. it's why someone is asking someone to
remember them.
it's frekkin compelling starting the song in such a way: someone (a)
is asking, (asking, as in trying, helping, wanting) someone (b) to
remember something, maybe remember anything? and the notion that
digging up a gun would be as powerful a possible stimulus to
someone(b)'s memory, as that of making love, is a striking one, and
effective, attention grabbin, brilliant way of starting a song.
to me it seems to be about the disconnected yet still connected, "on a
chain of moments", way things seem for returning vet, the past from
the future, the general citizenry from the small group of vets
fighting it.
how the vet know lives in all these places past, present, a part of,
not a part of it all. BUT, the one thing, the one thing still
connected to him, is the narrator that starts the song. it's a
staggering picture, that for so many of these thousands of vets, it
is a very private affair, of that connection/re-connection. the
narrator is so close to the returning vet ( even knows of his dreams -
perhaps spoken/cried out in his sleep , which the narrator has heard)
yet describes everything as in a state of in-between, of close but not
quite here, feel to the present world,
like a clustrophobia of free floating nothingness, set to the most
majestic melody this side of the intro to backstreets, and yet,
disturbing and sickening - and intentionally so, i think on
springsteen's part, how disconnected most of the country is from the
folks in this song, how disconnected from the notion of, "to care for
him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his
orphan", worms in a barrel, indeed.

-jim




As far as sex toys, safe words, interrogation at Abu Prison, drum rolls
denoting either heartbeats or death rattles, all are open to interpretation.
But the first two lines are clear as a bell pepper.

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Better bring your own redemption when you come
To the barricades of heaven, where I'm from
Jackson Browne


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