reflected in the eye of the dead man on the beach...

let's play some songs based in books...

For instance.. Killing an Arab which was inspired
by The Stranger by Albert Camus..


The song is great.. the book is superb..

This is one of the first books I read from my parents library.. just because it was a short one..

And while reading it I notice I was growing up..

exposed to some situations which were not supposed to be read by a kid..

but it did affect my way of thinking...

Then when I recorded my first demo.. my sister's boyfriend.. told me that it remind him of the Cure.. and gave me his Cd's from them... Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, ....

Some years later I realized he said that because their first album is as raw.. as a demo..

The best analysis of the song is by Sean K. Robb from Chart Attack "...a short three-minute burst of metaphysical angst that is meant to question the meaning of existence "

Killing an Arab

Standing on a beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the Arab on the ground
See his open mouth
But hear no sound

I'm alive ... I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab

I can turn and walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I choose
It amounts to the same

Absolutely nothing

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab

Feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes of
The dead man on the beach

The dead man
On the beach

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab