Results for “purification”

Songs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

A short, incantatory track built around elemental imagery of fire and water, where a possessed or transformed narrator moves…

transformation purification possession/obsession

Echo & the Bunnymen

A dense, incantatory piece of post-punk imagery in which the speaker pleads for mercy from some undefined judging or cutting…

self-doubt judgment and punishment survival

The Who

A single, almost liturgical plea builds around one pun -- love as both sovereign force and literal downpour -- to dramatize a…

spiritual thirst emotional exhaustion love as redemptive force

Guided By Voices

A cryptic, riddling GBV track that uses Fats Domino's real-life survival of Hurricane Katrina as an emblem of resilience, then…

survival and resilience flood/water imagery as threat and purification fame versus obscurity