Kiss of death (staying in the hive will ruin his life, it is the kiss of death)
Puckered up my night (made my soul uneasy) Life in the hive (the rat race, a teeming swarm of people with a hive mentality) Ooo there I stand neath the Marquee Moon, The musical phrase represents hope, the embrace of life. I believe the musical interlude is the “something else he was hearing”. The interlude is surprisingly uplifting given the depressing metaphors (darkness doubled, rain). Hearing something else (the embrace of life)īrief musical interlude. Listening to the rain (he is sad, forlorn, and despairing) Lightning struck itself (He had an epiphany) Ooo how the darkness doubled (dissatisfaction with his life) I list the lyrics below with explanations interspersed. My InterpretationMarquee Moon – Explained New York obviously rebounded from this night in 1977, undergoing many changes leading to what the city has become today. But once you hit bottom, there's only one way to go, the embrace of life. When relating this line to the Blackout of '77, I take it to mean NYC may have hit it's darkest moment that night, the blackout being its kiss of death. "Life in the hive puckered up my night, A kiss of death, the embrace of life." 'Waiting', 'hesitating', 'I ain't waiting nuh uh', all seem to hint at phases of herd mentality. "When there is an internal decay of a social structure (that's) important in a city, it just takes on little spark, one little thing to hit it, to set it off." The city at that time was bankrupt and many public services had been cut as a result. Urban civilization became unglued that night, and mayhem ensued, resulting in the most arrests in the city's history. Violence, looting, arson and insanity were uncontrolled. And once the lights went out that night, in many neighborhoods, the city did just that.
Marquee meaning serial#
In the midst of a financial crisis, the dog days of summer and the city living among a rampant serial killer, NYC was at the brink of cracking. "Listening to the rain, I heard something else." That something else he heard was civil unrest and the madness that ensued once the lights went dark. "I remember, when the darkness doubled, lightning had struck itself." A major lightning storm the night before is what caused the blackout as major power lines were knocked out, increasing loads to others, until finally the system went out. But the lyrics hauntingly recount the night when the city went black. Marquee Moon was released in February of that year. My InterpretationSomehow, Tom Verlaine wrote this song before the blackout of New York City which happened on July 14, 1977. Marquee Moon always gets credit for being a masterpiece as it rightfully deserves, but Adventure is a masterpiece in it's own right however many dismiss it as not living up to Marquee Moon's standards. I believe the third verse to be about living your life cautiously under apathetic terms and the fourth to be about being in with the wrong crowd and going nowhere or always ending up back where you started. "Listening to the rain, hearing something else" being all of the small things that act as reminders of your past and inevitably interpreting things differently than others.Īny life choices you make changing you as a person whether that be for better or worse is what I get out of "the kiss of death, the embrace of life" and the marquee moon is a metaphor for the passing of time although sometimes you get impatient. Going through the darkness (hard times) and sometimes bringing them upon yourself hence "lighting struck itself". General CommentI see this song as life summarized. Over there I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon He said, "Look here, junior, don't you be so happyĪnd for heaven's sake, don't you be so sad"
Marquee meaning code#
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