Song Lyrics Analysis

Song for Ted Sallis.

A tongue-in-cheek analysis of these song lyrics. Of course, the song is really about a comic book character, but let’s have some fun anyway.

Into the source of a squall

I inevitably fall

Toward the well-spring of all agony

Yes, I fell into the agony of Der Movement and spent a significant part of my life as a shabbos sud stepandfetchit.  Falling “toward the well-spring of all agony” indeed.

Shuffling endlessly

"Shuffling endlessly" = many years parroting “movement” dogma.

Whether or not it was always going to be this way

It only mattered yesterday

I am awake. Therefore, those errors “only mattered yesterday.” But I remember them today and for all time to come.

No skin like the skin you woke up in

No skin like the skin you woke up in

I woke up in swarthoid skin, and that is the only way that Der Movement views me and people like  me.

Up from the earth and the clay

Melting away

Never lose enough to find my form

Trudge through the storm

Wait in hope

For some as yet undiscovered isotope

Well, there’s no quick fix, no “undiscovered isotope.”  You have to “trudge through the storm” of the System and Der Movement and come up with your own solution – a New Movement.

No skin like the skin you woke up in

No skin like the skin you woke up in

See above.

When at last

The die gets cast

When you disavow Der Movement.

Read the numbers out loud

With your head bowed

Try to find a face to focus on

But the memory's gone

No, my memory of Der Movement's perfidy is clear and strong.

Wherever my former self went

It was an accident

Try to picture him in my mind's eye

Say goodbye

Not an accident that I woke up.  But I do say goodbye to that “former self.” Bye, bye, shabbos sud.

No skin like the skin you woke up in

No skin like the skin you woke up in

Again, as above.

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