Pop culture texts must, by nature, be polysemic... So I feel no guilt in saying I swear, there's just something post-colonial, post-Empire-national-identity-crisis about "The Road to Mandalay":
...Everything we've ever stolen
Has been lost returned or broken
No more dragons left to slay
Every mistake I've ever made
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way...
He also has vaguely religous lyrics, and vaguely religious imagery in many of his album liner notes. A fellow tortured ex-religious soul, or just a God complex? SO much to read into it! Or maybe it's just a personal Obsession... since I still can't find Escape...
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b -- so sad, so sad.... --D
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