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See, my heart colder than a igloo
Once he was my brother, now he is a sucker
Long kiss, now it's time to kill this motherfucker A$AP Ferg (Ft. Marty Baller) – I Don't Care
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These lines connect to Ferg’s Godfather reference earlier in the verse. In The Godfather II, Don Michael Corleone is betrayed by his brother Fredo. After confronting Fredo about it and giving him a kiss, Michael (spoiler) has Fredo killed, thus completing his character arc towards becoming a cold-hearted Don.

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Tiger eyelashes, summer wine The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come to Expect
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“Summer Wine” is a song by Nancy Sinatra that sometimes get confused with her James Bond theme “You Only Live Twice.” Turner has expressed interest in writing a Bond theme (and playing the villain) which could explain the reference.

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“Tiger eyelashes” is very similar to a line about catty eyelashes on the Arctic Monkeys B-side “You’re So Dark”.

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I think the term “summer wine” is supposed to reference love.

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Tiger Eyelashes can also be an allusion towards Alex Turner’s band the Arctic Monkeys where in “You’re So Dark” he sings “Catty Eyelashes”

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Gila Beach House – Gila
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“Gila” is a song about a Gatsby-eque lover who foolishly thinks that they can recreate the past. As a result this ends up damaging their future, and the future of their children.

Victoria compares “Gila” to “Heart of Chambers” because they both have “dark sass” and “witchy mysticism.”

It was somewhere in Mississippi that we put the pieces of ‘Gila’ together. All of these songs were written in different places, because we kept having to move.

The meaning of the word Gila is not exactly clear. It could be a reference to the poisonous Gila monster, or it could be that gila means “crazy” in Malay and Indonesian.

This song was sampled on The Weeknd’s “Loft Music”.

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In my Cadillac
Good car to drive after a war Bob Dylan – Talkin' World War III Blues
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Cadillacs became more essential to the American auto industry after WWII, so it stands to reason they’d see another bump after the next World War.

“Good car to drive after a war” is a faux slogan Dylan invented to poke fun at American consume culture and marketing departments. It’s not an expression of his own own auto preferences; as he wrote on this same album,

I don’t have no sports car
And I don’t even care to have one
I can walk anytime around the block

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The sheer absurdity of caring what brand of car you’re driving during the apocalypse

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Bob Dylan's Dream Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's Dream
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“Bob Dylan’s Dream” gets its melody from “Lady Franklin’s Lament”, a traditional folk ballad about the wife of an Arctic explorer named John Franklin who went missing.

While Dylan’s take is much more personal and the lyrics have little in common with “Lady Franklin”, both versions contain the same dream: to be reunited with loved ones whom the narrator had spent happier times with.

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Well, I seen me a Cadillac window uptown
There was nobody around
I got into the driver’s seat
And I drove down 42nd Street Bob Dylan – Talkin' World War III Blues
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The relevance of 42nd Street to the Dylan canon: it is the first street in New York that he got off at after his long drive from Minnesota to NYC.

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As I landed on the psychiatric couch
He said “Tell me about it” Bob Dylan – Talkin' World War III Blues
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These lyrics place “Talkin' World War III Blues” amongst the pantheon of other stories told in a mental hospital, including The Catcher in the Rye, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

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Dreams play a central role in the psychoanalytic tradition, hence the doctor acknowledges Dylan as “insane”, as his dream about a world war supposedly tells a significant tale about the contents of his unconscious, and thereby the state of his psyche.

According to Sigmund Freud’s book on dreams and dream symbolism, The Interpretation of Dreams, dreaming of war “reflects insatiable desire for sexual pluralism with elements of violence”.

Furthermore Dylan describes in his autobiography, Chronicles Vol. One, having access to a large library containing books by numerous authors, including Freud. He however steered away from his books, as a friend said, when Dylan was about to pick up Beyond the Pleasure Principle: “The top guys in that field work for ad agencies. They deal in air.”

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Well, I’m walking down the highway
With my suitcase in my hand
Yes, I’m walking down the highway
With my suitcase in my hand Bob Dylan – Down the Highway
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This gambling narrator that walks the streets with a suitcase has much in common with a character described in the famous folk song “House of the Rising Sun” – a song which Dylan himself covered.

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...re. Instead, it was a clear and indicative promise to fans: We’re not the band the press says we are. Naturally, the hype died down, but rather than disappearing, the band pushed their sound further. They matured exponentially on their second record, Favourite Worst Nightmare. Drunken nights clubbing turned into songs like “Cornerstone”, in which Turner somberly stumbles from bar to bar talking to women who remind him of the one who left him behind. Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not Turns 10 | Consequence of Sound

#wellactually “Cornerstone” was on their third album Humbug, not FWN.

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Jesus going to make up, Jesus going to make up
Jesus going to make up my dying bed Bob Dylan – In My Time of Dyin'
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According to Revelation: Blind Willie Johnson The Biography, these lines were inspired by a passage from Psalms 41:3,

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

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