I just want to start a flame in your heart The Ink Spots – I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
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This could be seen as a double entendre:
- Setting the world ablaze would be a feat of godlike proportions, or at least incredibly impressive to say the least. However, the speaker doesn’t want to impress the world, only the girl.
- Out of all the “flames” in the world that he could ignite with so many, he chooses this one lover.
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And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing? Metallica – King Nothing
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The king is a symbol for those who waste their time chasing materials to boost their ego and build their personality around this.
Often times, we see those who seem to have everything and love to flex their wealth and power. However, we also see those who lose that power and meet sad ironic ends as their fair-weather friends will not stick around in the rain.
This draws parallels to the play, “King Lear” by Shakespeare
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He doesn’t care about if she can do normal house things like cooking or cleaning, she only needs to look good and be a bad bitch.
Basically like a trophy wife.
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Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
To our most valiant brother. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2
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Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
MARCELLUS
Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
Where we shall find him most conveniently. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1
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Horatio feels that they should make a report to Hamlet about the Ghost’s appearances. He believes it wishes to speak as a father to Hamlet, and Marcellus agrees that it’s their “duty” to bring the matter to the prince’s attention.
It’s interesting that Horatio asks the guards' consent to acquaint Hamlet with the ghost. His hesitation emphasizes the danger: they are considering introducing the prince to what might turn out to be an evil spirit. Still, all present sense that the Ghost bears some critically important message for Denmark, and that urgency wins out.
To offer it the show of violence;
For it is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1
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People usually associate rain with tears,depression, and dark, damp sadness. But someday the sun will shine it simply means that the good and happy times are always there and cosign each other. Also all good things usually have to end as well as do the bad things.
You have to have to experience rain just as much as you have to have sunshine.
People will say that it’s all in your attitude and that you should always look for the silver lining. However, just as there are areas of land with excess rain and droughts, there are also people who experience more or less down times.
It’s a terrible shame that there isn’t some way that the heaps of flood waters and excess snow that has to be plowed in the snow areas can’t some way be transferred to the dry areas.
Also a reference to the 1842 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Rainy Day”, which contains the following lines
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.