Cupid de Locke
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Cupid de Locke Lyrics
Cupid hath pulled back his sweetheart's bow
To cast divine arrows into her soul
To grab her attention swift and quick
Or morrow the marrow of her bones be thick
With turpentine kisses and mistaken blows
[Verse 2]
See the Devil may do as the Devil may care
He loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare
Her mouth the mischief he doth seek
Her heart the captive of which he speaks
So note all ye lovers in love with the sound
Your world be shattered with nary a note
Of one Cupid's arrow under your coat
[Outro]
And in the land of the star-crossed lovers
And barren-hearted wanderers
Forever lost in forsaken missives and Satan's pull
We seek the unseekable, and we speak the unspeakable
Our hopes dead gathering dust to dust
In faith, in compassion, and in love
About
“Cupid de Locke” is a reference to Matthew Locke, an English Baroque composer during the 17th century who wrote the score to a masque entitled Cupid and Death, which is a story about Cupid and Death getting their arrows mixed up thus causing great distress and humor to ensue.
The song’s instrumentation, led by synthetic harp arpeggios and household items as percussion, is one of Mellon Collie’s biggest departures from the classic Pumpkins sound.
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To counter-balance our many dark excursions into the void, I sought some refuge by writing whimsically as well; finding solace in twirling parasols and the extant, lingering passions of the Belle Epoque.
Love is held in the ideal, driven up high above a nasty world and held gloriously in places of unshakable faith. In a rare fit of fun we even recorded whisping aerosol cans and haughty, rusted scissor snips to build up an unusual kaleidoscope chorus around the semi-chromatic wheeze of the synth. Not a note is played by a human as it were, each part being fed through a phalanx of mystery boxes, which when twisted and turned just right spit back out a different set of warbles than the funny marbles you’d put in.
In a humble nod to Elvis, there is even a spoken poem of dedication that lilts out on the gallop, for I couldn’t help myself but wrap fully in the cloak of a sincere and innocent lover.
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