Meaning behind Rapture Rapes the Muses

[mattdq99]

My friend and I were talking about of Montreal today while listening to it, and the song rapture rapes the muses comes on. he told me that he thought that it meant that the band the rapture rapes the band muse. makes sense.

just a possibility. thought it was a neat interpretation.

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

And not the idea of the muses as, in ancient mythology, being the inspiration for all art, who have been completely ravished by Kevin due to his new found love?

[Harnk]

Originally posted by mattdq99
My friend and I were talking about of Montreal today while listening to it, and the song rapture rapes the muses comes on. he told me that he thought that it meant that the band the rapture rapes the band muse. makes sense.

just a possibility. thought it was a neat interpretation.

you eeediet !

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-22-0606 by hypecity]

[RiversShackleton]

i forget if it was a radio interview or an article but kevin said even he doesnt know what it means, it just came to him and sounded good. if i can find it ill post it but i think it might have been posted all ready on another thread.

[RiversShackleton]

i cant find the article sorry, but i swear i read it or heard it from kevin in an article somewhere.

[Robin]

the rapture and muse both suck anyway.

[everythingfallstogether]

yeah they do.

[Harnk]

Originally posted by RiversShackleton
i cant find the article sorry, but i swear i read it or heard it from kevin in an article somewhere.

I read it too. You're right

[The_new_improved_Kirk]

yeah he was like "i dont know what that means but it sounds cool doesn't it?

[pierrecoghill]

the rapture is an alright band, i have never bought any of their cds, but i saw them once and they were pretty dancy and good. muse sucks though

[Harnk]

Scarlet dance, like you did for Poppy. Show me the knee-pump penguin curls and the ankle dank shivvles. Hold me still in your glide, as I ponder your beauty and ease. Peel back the bark of my nose and twitch your toes, only soft, like a suspended eel lost in a dream of wizards propping up elephants on toothpicks. Try my love on for size and let it go, down corridors lined with bubbling carpets and overflowing candy dishes filled with tonsil lobes and estrogen planks. Scarlet you light my fire with the warmth of a German butcher punching rabbits for wisdom, and now I pray on you, literally upon your neck, steeling your thoughts for the sake of my survival. For without you my dear, I would sit alone weaving unholy gloves marked with scriptures from evil disciples who scream nonsense in reverse, like Kangaroo Kalidopee, the Moaning King of Ventriliqual Trickery. Scarlet you kill me, only you don't, which is why I live for you, or so it seems, as screams of love open doors which never exitsed before the day you clutched my loins that beautiful Monday in August.

[kartoonz]

This song has one of my favorite serious lines from Kevin, "One always reveres what one's bound to destroy." I have lots of favorite lines that are less serious.