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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 21, 2015
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Silver's good enough for me, Mr. T
As this line is sung by the baker and Sweeney's accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, it shows that she is aware that she will not likely be the most important thing to Sweeney (for whom she has an unrequited Love) and that Silver (Second Place) is good enough for her.
Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015
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I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
The first verse shows that the two subjects start on uneven ground. The color white and the slightly younger age demonstrates that the girl is the more innocent of the two and there for more naive.
Jun 18, 2015
The song tells the story of the Queen Catherine Howard who was the fifth wife of King Henry the VIII. The Queen's Marriage to Henry was short lived as she was executed via decapitation in the charges of Adultery and Unchastity, charges (whether True or Not) where fueled by her past indiscretions during her youth and by Protestant-leaning Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who was not happy about the fact that Catherine was a Catholic. The Letters mentioned either mean the Order of Execution signed by King Henry or The Letters Katherine is said to have sent to her Alleged Lover Thomas Culpepper, who was also killed on the block.
Jun 18, 2015
The song is about discrimination of interracial relationships. In the scene, the "Woman" Emcee sings about is presented as an actor in an ape suit. It is not until the final line in which it is revealed that the woman is actually Jewish. The message is to show that in the eyes of people caught up in the Nazi regime, a German in love with a Jewish person is just as bad as if they where in love with an animal.
Jun 18, 2015
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Everybody loves a winner
So nobody love me
Lady peaceful, Lady happy
That's what I long to be
So nobody love me
Lady peaceful, Lady happy
That's what I long to be
Sally Bowles bases her self worth on what others think of her. By stating that every body loves a winner after in the previous verse she calls herself a loser shows that she only feels like she is worth something if others do.
Jun 18, 2015
The song Chromaggia is entirely a metaphor for Mag's own life.
The song tells of a "Fatal Bird" named Chromaggia (Who is a metaphor for Mag herself). Who flies in to the path of an Archer's arrow. (Which symbolizes Mag's Surgery, her subsequent debt to GeneCo, and also the RepoMen who had been sent by Geneco to repossess Mag's eyes ) which she flees from for years believing it was chasing her.
The people who see her ask why she doesn't continue to out fly the arrow (the same way Reporters ask why Mag she was leaving the Opera) but they can not see that the arrow was tied to her wing (Mag is tied to her debt). Chromaggia laments that by dragging the arrow around with her, others are harmed by her carelessness. (The same way Mag's debt caused her to become the voice of GeneCo and encourage people to get surgeries even though she knew that it would lead them to harm).
The final line of the song is right before Mag tears out her mechanical eyes which bound her to GeneCo before the Repo Man and by extension GeneCo could take them from her. With this act and in this Song Mag finally frees herself from GeneCo.
Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015
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How self-absorbed people can be
While at its face this lyric laments the lack of gratitude Nathan gets for his work. It also notes on the attitude of the theme of the movie "Keep Repositions Legal! In which Gene Co urges it's customers to continue with their support of legal repossession of organs so that there is more available for the general public even at the cost of lives which are brutally ended by Repo Men during the Seizures of Organs.
Jun 18, 2015
This song is Shilo's rebellious coming of age ballad. in which she finally revolts against her overbearing father. In this song she accuses her father, Nathan, of using her as a substitute for her dead mother (lyrics: You compare me to a Corpus) and now refuses to be trapped in his artificial world ("Stay with the dead, I'm joining the Living") and of being over protective and over bearing ("Seventeen and you can't stop me, Seventeen and you won't boss me!")
Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015
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And none of us, are free from this horror.
For many years ago we all fell in debt.
New body parts were need, to perfect our image
For many years ago we all fell in debt.
New body parts were need, to perfect our image
The main plot thrust of Repo! is the fact that Elective surgery has become a fashion statement and nearly the entire population has fallen victim of this fad. The Lyrics may show that all those who embark on something they haven't the resources to complete (i.e. buying organs as a fashion statement despite the fact that one hasn't the money to pay it off) will, at one point or an other, have to pay the piper so to speak.
Jun 18, 2015
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He will come at your weakest hour.
When no one is around who might rescue you
When no one is around who might rescue you
Repo Men will usually wait until their target is alone to act, due to the grizzly nature of their job. Should they attack in broad day light in a crowded area, the reputation of Gene Co, the company which commissions the Repo Men, would be severely damaged.
Jun 18, 2015
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He stands at six foot six, head and shoulders
The description and possible exaggeration of the Repo Man is used to emphasize the intimidating nature of the figure which many have come to dread due to the fact that the primary job of the Repo Men is to repossess Organs, usually killing the victims in the process.
Jun 18, 2015
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Someone has replaced you
Referring to the Main Antagonist, Rotti Largo, who has been acting as a false father figure to Shilo in place of Nathan, whom Shilo has grown to resent due to A) His overbearing nature, B) His lack of respect for her growing independence, and C) His unwillingness to help her in both her quest to find her cure and helping Blind Mag hide from the Repo Men.