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I am rediscovering an old, briefly popular band that I really really like called Black Lab.
They have a song called "ten million years" and there's a ine from the chorus that I really like...
quote:I love you more than I should I'd wrap my heart in bands of rosewood
but it sounds to me like the choice of rosewood here has some significance. Anyone have any idea what it might be?
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Rosewood is a beautiful wood, but you have to be careful when working on it. Its sawdust can wreak havok on your lungs. Make sure you wear a mask when working with it.
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Rosewood is a beautiful wood, but you have to be careful when working on it. Its sawdust can wreak havok on your lungs. Make sure you wear a mask when working with it.
If the guy is planning to wrap his heart in bands of rosewood, I would think, medically speaking, that the sawdust in the lungs is not his primary problem.
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Rosewood is the wood of choice for high-end solo martial arts weapons. They are solo weapons because a weapon made from rosewood is so expensive that nobody is willing to risk them breaking.
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Wasn't there some significance to rosewood in Revelation/Apocalypse? Like, a sign of the apocalypse or something like that?
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If I were writing pop lyrics, I'd be sure to throw in an obscure reference here and there, so that people could debate what it means and think that I am deep and intellectual-like.
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It is also a wood of choice for making guitars. So it would make sense that a musician would think of it as a valuable wood.
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Here are the lyrics. You be the judge: deep and meaningful, or just trying to find things that rhyme.
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