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Sympathy For The Devil; What do you think of it?
Topic Started: Friday 15-12-2006, 15:57 (81 Views)
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I've only heard it a few times, but I think all the people who say that it corrupts todays youth and is a song of satanism and worshipping the devil are stupid. It seems more to me like it's about mankind and goes by the philosophy they're naturally evil. It mentions some atrocities comitted by man. That's what I think it is.

What do you think?
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Like several Stones songs, I ;ike the presentation and idea (the devil singing to you is pretty interesting...) but I just don't like the music. And as soon as the "woo woo!" part in the backrgound comes in I have to change it. I can't stand that noise.
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It's pretty cool live. But it's not the devil talking to you, it's a presentation on mankind and how they're naturally evil.

Have you heard GnR's version.

EDIT: I'll break it down line by line for you.
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Yeah, I heard it.
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Did you like it? I can't stand it.

Bold=already broken down.
Italics=the meaning


Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste

All mankind is pursuing money and power, it's pretty natural.


Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith

Different religions, they would always try to convert each other.


And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

One of mankinds biggest atrocities, openly crucifying Jesus.


Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

What IS the meaning of life?


I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

October Revolution


I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

World War II



Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

Again, we still don't know the meaning of life


I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,

Hundred Years War



Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

Mankind killed the Kennedy's, that's who.


Let me please introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay

I'm thinking another historical event, I'm not sure. To come later.


Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But whats confusing you
Is just the nature of my game


Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me lucifer
cause Im in need of some restraint

No one is purely good or evil, everyone is a mix of both, and you need to control that.


So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or Ill lay your soul to waste, um yeah

You declare war on their empire, they will fight back. No one wants to surrender. Reigning power



Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, whats my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, whats my name
I tell you one time, youre to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
Whats me name
Tell me, baby, whats my name
Tell me, sweetie, whats my name
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah

Not much to say there.


See?
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Ok...
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That's just my interpretation, a lot of people think it's satan speaking.

Good song, though.
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Let me please introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay

I'm thinking another historical event, I'm not sure. To come later.


Troubadours were 13th century musicians/poets/minstrels.

As for Bombay, that's the name of a city in the US.

In 1877, the town was devastated by a plague of grasshoppers, which consumed more than half of the field crops. Grasshoppers, one of the several Egyptian curses. Perhaps that has anything to do with it?

I also found something else that is semi-interesting.

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,192 people, 483 households, and 327 families residing in the town. The population density was 12.9/km˛ (33.3/mi˛).

That's 66.6 divided by two. </Conspiracy Theory>
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and 33.3 would represent the Holy Trinity so ... >_>
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Dec 15 2006, 10:57 AM
I've only heard it a few times, but I think all the people who say that it corrupts todays youth and is a song of satanism and worshipping the devil are stupid. It seems more to me like it's about mankind and goes by the philosophy they're naturally evil. It mentions some atrocities comitted by man. That's what I think it is.

What do you think?

personally, I think its a fuckin' badass song.
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Better live.

Thanks for that TW.
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