At face value, the song's lyrics about a husband mourning the passing of his wife do not portray him in a very sympathetic light; he laughs at her foolishness, accidents and stupidity when he probably should have been paying closer attention to a deeper problem. Some have conjectured the s...
dance, play guitar and call down an audience with her heavy rock rhythm like so few women in rock could. In today’s cultural moment of women empowerment, her lyrics of “you’re so pretty the way you are” were some of the foundings of the ...
Overall, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous and allow the listener to interpret them in a variety of different ways. We can take them straight—as the romantic account of a doomed relationship against the backdrop of the Cold War. However, it is equally possible to see the epic kiss as...