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Clever wordplay.

Even if you do pigeon-hole him he still considers himself something a lot more powerful than something so easily conquerable: he considers himself a bird of prey which are basically the badass birds and are considered at the top of the food chain due to their predatory lifestyle. This could be Possessed referencing to how he is at the top of the rap game, how he is someone who will destroy you and not someone who can be thrown into any category as a one trick pony, which “horrorcore” rappers are often seen as.

Pigeon-holed means to be classified into a group. It holds negative connotations since nobody wants to be placed and left in one category.

The addition of “Lucifer reject” at the end negates the idea of people categorizing him since even the Devil wouldn’t accept him even though Possessed’s lyricism with the radical side of violence would ultimately make him a shoe-in for a life in Hell categorized as a sinner.

Also worth noting is the “pigeon-hole/pigeon hold,” since pigeons are easier to hold than birds of prey.

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This 3rd verse uses playing card images in quite a symbolic way, it is not referring to playing cards in the literal sense.

It is referring to the demise and downfall of the past authority figures and the chosen, privileged few that previously reigned in the “courtyard”.

Now gypsies (usually the homeless, the searchers and wonderers, the people who have been left out from society) march through the empty courtyards where the previous royalty once held dominance. Things are changing. Great metaphor for the way things change over time.

“The sky is folding”, in a game of Poker, you can “fold”, which means to give up and that you are out. So, Dylan is saying that his perspective has changed and he is moving on.

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Kind of a paradox, considering lines prior to this are “borrowed” from a film.

But it’s more than a paradox, I imagine it was done purposefully – while the song is referencing a lesson in not plagiarising, the outcome is that the ‘narrator’ is caught out, and as it happens there is nothing new under the sun..

This seems like Morrissey is conceding the point with the earlier reference, but with characteristic subtlety and a little bitterness.

By mispronouncing the word ‘plagiarise’, Morrissey underscores his picture of the naive critic who unselfconsciously criticises others, without understanding their own culpability in rehashing common phrases from the English language.

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A variation of the bong native to South West England, where a straight tube is used instead of a conventional “gauze type” bong tube.

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Thing from Addams Family was a disembodied hand.

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Rockefeller became the world’s richest man and the first American worth more than a billion dollars. He was an American industrialist and philanthropist who retired at 50 for 40 years. He was incredibly rich.

This girl that L’s hanging with appears to think this is him, and that L is her ticket money wise. In reality, Rock and L are nothing alike, but Rockefeller has sort of become a slang word for mega-rich.

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Mental patients are generally kept in padded cells if they have a risk of self-harm, the padded cells look like this:

This is Possessed..

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L is slang for a Blunt, Its called an L because it short for an Elbow and a blunt is referred to an and Elbow cuz it gets you bent

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“Like” is a word used to express simile’s. For example, he was cold like ice. He’s not saying “I don’t, like you”. It’s not a simile, he just doesn’t like you.

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He’s saying that when you hear his declaration of war you best be praying to the lord because you’re gunna need all the help you can get.

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