Doghouse Speaks…A couple of tunes from Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Ocean Rain”
The opening guitar riff. The tango swagger. Those dark, beautifully menacing lyrics. And that title. Echo and the Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon” may be the best Bond movie song not actually from a Bond film. Close your eyes and imagine a bevy of slinky, near-nude female silhouettes toting pistols and dancing provocatively across a shiny black backdrop.
“In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon”
Lyrics so serenely beautiful. And so COMPLETELY PERPLEXING! But wasn’t that par for the course in 1984?
Following that song’s fade out, my memory will always leap to the opening lyrics of “Seven Seas” – the subsequent track on the album.
“Stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging
Hear the cavemen singing
Good news theyre bringing”
Song lyrics are often better when they make little sense. Codes to be broken. Or, at least, never entirely understood.
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