Weak-minded people are always looking for stronger intellects to justify their positions even if the inferences they draw from the stronger intellect are all wrong. This song encourages suicide in the same way that Hegel and Nietzsche encouraged the Nazis. This song is about suicide and happens to in a beautiful melody, which many dark lyrics happen to have. Whatever religion you believe, suicide is not an option. He is a deceiver using the romantic story of Romeo & Juliet to win her soul over to commit suicide. This devil/reaper/vampire type/spirit appeared just when she had another bad night. He was already in the land of the dead or undead.whatever you want to call it. They began to fly and SHE HAD BECOME LIKE THEY ARE. saying don't be afraid,Īnd she ran to him. Then the door was open and the wind appeared, She contemplated suicide before, but felt she couldn't go on any longer. Could be anything to put you her in a bad way. This is coaxing."come on baby, take my hand, don't fear, we'll fly, I'm your man" They committed suicide, so this song does indeed promote suicide.īaby, take my hand. She had taken his hand (she had become like they are)Īre together in eternity. They looked backward and said goodbye (she had become like they are) Then the door was open and the wind appearedĪnd she ran to him (then they started to fly) We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper)Īre together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)Ĥ0,000 men and women everyday (like Romeo and Juliet)Ĥ0,000 men and women everyday (redefine happiness)Īnother 40,000 coming everyday (we can be like they are) The point is to just exist, without fear and when the reaper comes we should simply just take his hand.Baby, take my hand (don't fear the reaper) That if we become like the “wind, the sun and the rain” we can somehow accept death and see it for something other than sad. We shouldn’t fear death because the seasons don’t. I think that when you peel back the layers of the song you really end up finding some pretty awesome stuff. No need for shmaltz (I’m looking at you here Taylor Swift). We aren’t being hit over the head with exposition or anything for that matter, just reminded of two characters in literature whose story everyone knows. The song also references archetypal figures like Romeo and Juliet but does so in a way that assumes the audience is intelligent. She takes the grim reaper’s hand and then they fly, they look backward and say goodbye and she becomes like they are. But it’s personified in a way that’s really romantic. If you look at the last verse of the song, the woman is upset by the death of her lover, and in a truly cinematic fashion, the candles blow out, the door fly open and the grim reaper appears to take her away. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is a song based most importantly on the idea of transcending death, most specifically the grim reaper. She had taken his hand (she had become like they are) They looked backward and said goodby (she had become like they are) The curtains flew then he appeared (saying don’t be afraid)Īnd she ran to him (then they started to fly) Then the door was open and the wind appeared We’ll be able to fly (don’t fear the reaper)Īre together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)Ĥ0,000 men and women everyday (Like Romeo and Juliet)Ĥ0,000 men and women everyday (Redefine happiness)Īnother 40,000 coming everyday (We can be like they are) Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain (we can be like they are)īaby take my hand (don’t fear the reaper) I think it’s a brilliant and moody song with a really interesting point of view. It’s a hilarious sketch, and certainly one of SNL’s most famous, but it’s a bit of a shame that the song has lost some cred because of it. Released in 1976, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” might be famous to anyone under the age of 30 as the subject of the Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell sketch on Saturday Night Live where “more cowbell” is fitfully demanded. So chilling, in fact, that Rob Zombie, in his two Halloween remounts, included the song in his film. Unbeknownst to her, and her other teenage friends, the reaper is Michael Myers and they are about to meet him in a most unsavory way. In a famous scene from the 1978 John Carpenter film “Halloween”, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, joy-rides in her friend Annie’s car, smokes a little weed and jams to the Blue Oyster Cult song “Don’t Fear the Reaper”. A Critical Analysis of Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
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