My Gen X Playlist: Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen

I follow the blog The Beginning at Last. Occasionally he posts his photos of the moon. I always think they are pretty cool.

His latest moon post made me do a few searches about the moon. A few interesting facts:

The moon experiences earthquakes (or moonquakes) – Just like the Earth, the moon has a crust that shifts and changes. Moonquakes can occur when the lunar crust warms and expands, or they can be triggered by meteorite impacts.

The moon’s surface has footprints – Man hasn’t set foot on the moon in more than four decades, and yet, fresh prints remain. Is this evidence of an alien life form? Nah, they’re just leftover astronaut footprints. Because there’s no wind on the moon, tracks can last millions of years.

The moon is disappearing – Each year, the moon’s orbit moves about four centimeters away from the Earth, meaning that in a mere 500 million years, the moon will be 14,600 miles farther away than it is right now.

Readers Digest

Honesty, this has a strange resemblance when I commit an embarrassing faux pas. A quake erupts inside me and even when the ordeal subsides, it leaves indelible footprints that can’t be erased. It takes a long time for it to eventually exit my orbit. I’m just glad it’s quicker than four centimeters per year. Otherwise I think I’d go crazy.

Echo and the Bunnymen released The Killing Moon in 1984. Ian McCulloch describes how that great line in the chorus appeared.

“I woke up with that lyric, ‘Fate up against your will,’ as if God had given it to me in my sleep. Recently I realized what it is – it’s that soliloquy, ‘To be or not to be’ – but it’s even better, because I’m f—in’ singing it.”

 “I never really tell people what the meaning is to all the songs because that surely spoils their journey. When they listen to something like ‘The Killing Moon,’ there are so many different ideas of what that is about. To me it’s like to be or not to be moments.”

Songfacts

Maybe those quakes I experience are my own little to be or not to be moments. Moments when I want to crawl under a rock and hide. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I’ve had too many of them to count so I know that I will eventually stand up, dust myself off and carry on. So if I have to answer the question, my answer is to be. It’s just a bit of a kick in the balls to get over that not to be feeling.

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Under blue moon, I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms, too late to beg you
Or cancel it, though I know it must be
The killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

In starlit nights, I saw you
So cruelly, you kissed me
Your lips, a magic world
Your sky, all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under blue moon, I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms, too late to beg you
Or cancel it, though I know it must be
The killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him

La
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him

La, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la