Why is the phrase "funeral pyre" so common in metal/prog lyrics?
Does it always refer to older days burning at stakes or is the phrase still relevant today?
Why is the phrase "funeral pyre" so common in metal/prog lyrics?
Does it always refer to older days burning at stakes or is the phrase still relevant today?
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Supposedly many modern-day Indians still creamate their dead on wooden funeral pyres next to the Ganges River. Saw it on a Terry Jones-hosted travel show a few years ago.
Probably because it rhymes with fire, which usefully is a thing associated with pyres. An easy couplet for lazy rhymers.
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'I would advise stilts for the quagmires"
Leon Russell, Tight Rope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Z9qN8R9Bg
I'm up on the tight wire
One side's ice and one is fire
It's a circus game with you and me
I'm up on the tight rope
One side's hate and one is hope
But the top-hat on my head is all you see
And the wire seems to be
The only place for me
A comedy of errors and I'm falling
Like a rubber-neck giraffe
You look into my past
Well maybe you're just too blind to see
I'm up in the spotlight
Oh does it feel right
Oh altitude seems to get to me
I'm up on the tight wire
Flanked by life and the funeral pyre
Putting on a show for you to see
Like a rubber-neck giraffe
You look into my past
Well maybe you're just too blind to see
I'm up in the spotlight
Oh does it feel right
Oh the altitude really gets to get to me
I'm up on the tight wire
Flanked by life and the funeral pyre
Putting on a show for you to see
I blame Jim Morrison.
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Yep. In the same category as people who write a line ending in "world" and then have to find some way to have the next line end in the world "girl," or vice versa. Also the pattern of stresses (FYOON-ral PY-re) fits well into meters, and it's a thing that sounds literary and serious.
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I'm guilty as charged...used it in my latest xmas concoction:
https://youtu.be/wdC8A6C7KGw
what about masses and...
...masses?
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A friend recently pointed out to me that Roine Stolt seems to be quite fond of using "funeral pyre" in his lyrics, but I don't know of other examples than this, off hand, from their newest album.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Just sat down for a beer at the pub, and I'm hearing Light My Fire as I type. Liar, Pyre, Faya!!!....
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