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Muammar Gaddafi was the former de facto ruler of Libya, and was both ousted and killed during the Arab Spring in a 2011 revolution by the National Transitional Council (NTC). NATO intervened on the side of the NTC to bring Gaddafi down in the ensuing civil war, as Gaddafi was known as a dictator who violated human rights.
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Tripoli is the capital of Libya, and is a city that is both historic and beautiful. This goes with the Gaddafi reference in the next line, as Muammar Gaddafi used to be the ruler of Libya.
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Soowoo is a word used by people in the Bloods to get another Bloods attention. Gucci painted his Bentley red, the color of the Bloods.
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Subete ga kareteru no
Fuyu no sabaku, fuyu no sabaku ga hirogaru
Warera no yoru ga kuru, warera no yoru ga hajimaru
Kareha ga kareru warera no fuyu no sabaku
Kareru kareru
Subete ga kareteru no
Fuyu no sabaku, fuyu no sabaku ga hirogaru
Warera no yoru ga kuru, warera no fuyu ga hajimaru
Kareha ga kareru warera no fuyu no sabaku Kishi Bashi – In Fantasia
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Japanese translation:
withered and wilted…
everything has perished
the winter desert has spread
for our night has arrived
our evening will begin
even the foliage has wilted
in our own winter desert…
Tickled in irony as we made love upon its girth Kishi Bashi – Bittersweet Genesis for Him AND Her
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This is an interesting move by Kishi Bashi, as he claims that “Him and Her” created the Earth on the second day. Firstly, the Bible would claim that God created the Heavens and the earth on the first day, and Man on the 6th day. Secondly, Kishi and “Her” created the earth themselves as opposed to the being that “fluffed them with a feather” during their creation.
He and she may find it ironic that they created the earth after they themselves had been created. They make love on “its girth,” which could either describe the earth or the girth of his member.
(by Henry Fuseli)
Mixed in a celestial bowl and hand fluffed with a feather Kishi Bashi – Bittersweet Genesis for Him AND Her
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In his reference to the genesis of the world, Kishi Bashi might be referencing the “primordial soup,” a term coined by biologist Alexander Oparin in 1924 to describe a theory of how Earth as we know it materialized. Early on, many simple organic compounds existed in a large “soup,” but joined together to form complex polymers and proteins that make up our world today. Kishi Bashi suggests that a celestial being handcrafted the original humans, who in the case of this song are a combination of Adam and Eve and of Kishi Bashi and a woman.
Futari no yume wo mireru hotaru no
Hotaru Hotaru
Tsuneru to yume ga
Sameru hotaruyoru Kishi Bashi – Q&A
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After Justin experienced divinity in the beauty of nature, he no longer felt compelled to follow Christianity to find God
Before writing his first album under the moniker Bon Iver, Justin ventured into the woods after a breakup to live a cloistered, Thoreau-like life in a cabin. Knowing that Justin spent so much time in the woods, we can see how Justin would be able to find transcendence in its beauty.