The schematic for the flow of events in "Andromeda Weeps" is in another article so only the regulars will be able to keep up but we're not going to keep backtracking. The other was written yesterday and won't be hard to find.
It's easily predictable someone hears Jerusalem will get nuked in the story and reacts, "Oy, mate. I really want to see that. About time, right?"
Uh, cabron, you might be missing the point of the song ... you vicious, simple-minded bastard.
This backfires two ways for acceptance as you have NAZIs who will dance at the news and you have others who will dismiss it without even learning the concept.
Those aren't reasons to walk away from it. The idea has been orbiting all day because it is germane.
We have the young lovers, Jason and Andromeda, who had nothing to do with making nuclear weapons but they're sucked into that diseased nuclear machine and the satanic things it has done to the human race. They are specifically victims since they did nothing to deserve it.
Jerusalem did nothing to deserve being nuked either but that's the point as an errant missile landing anywhere else in the world is an act of war, instantly. When it is dropped on Jerusalem it goes to a whole different order of reality. Holy shit ... what have we done. The horror, the horror would go all over the place even though some mutants probably would celebrate somewhere. Likely other people would not tolerate that celebration for long.
For me this is a lot more than shock monkey theatrics. Where else would the weapon land when presumably the moral failure of humanity is why it landed anywhere. The story won't present it as a logical consequence and we don't see it that way but we don't see it precluded either. There's no greater moral failure than a nuclear war. When everyone dies, it's logically impossible to exceed that.
(Ed: you will kill off Jerusalem in this story as a punishment for that moral failure?)
No, it is a sacrifice to it. If you have to give up one city in the world to a nuclear war with an absolute guarantee no nuclear weapon would ever be used again, which city would it be.
No matter if you pick San Francisco, Moscow, New Delhi, or whichever you like, it will start a war.
(Ed: why doesn't nuking Jerusalem start a war?)
Who will fight it and whom will they attack. Morality around the world failed and everyone sees the fire from Jerusalem so who will you kill now. We think most likely, leaders would be falling all over themselves trying to prevent escalation from this point.
From that moment forward, there is a shared guilt for having built and, even worse, kept and maintained a system which could do such a thing. Therefore nuking Jerusalem is a sacrifice. It may sacrifice the song as well because people may hate it instantly simply for the idea of it without realizing what it says.
Strongly in my mind also is Prince's friend in "Purple Rain" who said, "Your music makes sense to no-one but yourself."
It's easily predictable someone hears Jerusalem will get nuked in the story and reacts, "Oy, mate. I really want to see that. About time, right?"
Uh, cabron, you might be missing the point of the song ... you vicious, simple-minded bastard.
This backfires two ways for acceptance as you have NAZIs who will dance at the news and you have others who will dismiss it without even learning the concept.
Those aren't reasons to walk away from it. The idea has been orbiting all day because it is germane.
We have the young lovers, Jason and Andromeda, who had nothing to do with making nuclear weapons but they're sucked into that diseased nuclear machine and the satanic things it has done to the human race. They are specifically victims since they did nothing to deserve it.
Jerusalem did nothing to deserve being nuked either but that's the point as an errant missile landing anywhere else in the world is an act of war, instantly. When it is dropped on Jerusalem it goes to a whole different order of reality. Holy shit ... what have we done. The horror, the horror would go all over the place even though some mutants probably would celebrate somewhere. Likely other people would not tolerate that celebration for long.
For me this is a lot more than shock monkey theatrics. Where else would the weapon land when presumably the moral failure of humanity is why it landed anywhere. The story won't present it as a logical consequence and we don't see it that way but we don't see it precluded either. There's no greater moral failure than a nuclear war. When everyone dies, it's logically impossible to exceed that.
(Ed: you will kill off Jerusalem in this story as a punishment for that moral failure?)
No, it is a sacrifice to it. If you have to give up one city in the world to a nuclear war with an absolute guarantee no nuclear weapon would ever be used again, which city would it be.
No matter if you pick San Francisco, Moscow, New Delhi, or whichever you like, it will start a war.
(Ed: why doesn't nuking Jerusalem start a war?)
Who will fight it and whom will they attack. Morality around the world failed and everyone sees the fire from Jerusalem so who will you kill now. We think most likely, leaders would be falling all over themselves trying to prevent escalation from this point.
From that moment forward, there is a shared guilt for having built and, even worse, kept and maintained a system which could do such a thing. Therefore nuking Jerusalem is a sacrifice. It may sacrifice the song as well because people may hate it instantly simply for the idea of it without realizing what it says.
Strongly in my mind also is Prince's friend in "Purple Rain" who said, "Your music makes sense to no-one but yourself."
Likely people think that of mine but the content isn't that difficult and "The End of the World in Fort Worth" seemed a straight-up story which followed from point to point. The same will be true of "Andromeda Weeps" but I need to go back to the lyrics to rework them to fit all this.
After Jerusalem gets nuked, there will be the reprise of the Trips part with Colonel Kurtz and the horror, the horror ... but ... it's not sufficient to roll out in quite reflectiveness with soft electric guitar. Our young lovers had found love, then were at risk of losing it, they made the right decision, and still didn't lose it. We just dashed away from that to the overwhelming tragedy of Jerusalem but they were supposed to live happily ever after so what the hell becomes of them.
There needs to be one more verse / chorus with Jason and Andromeda and this runs a grave risk of going into 'what have we learned' but this requirement only just revealed itself to me so I'm really not sure what they learned.
We need to bring the story back to them as it fookin' originated with them so, for me, it's necessary.
Possibility: they consider the enormity and see many people going to a church
The thinking being in this case, even if you kill the head, the body will not die. The general irony being the loss of Jerusalem is tiny relative to the loss of the entire world and that was the first consideration of the story.
Maybe you're going, man, he's going to make it religious. Of course I will ... Jerusalem blew up. There will be no proselytizing beyond the basic as it's clear from this evidence the morality plan needs some type of update although the message is not to wipe it out and hence the little white-painted neighborhood church in the wind down bit at the end.
That gets the continuity I need. We get back to the young lovers and this shook the hell out of them but they do alright. We also confirm this shook the hell out of religion but that seems to be doing alright as well.
(Ed: will you give everyone cupcakes??)
Yah, that hit me as well. There is nothing to show the military changed anything so the same thing could happen again the next day.
This will get revisited more. It's definitely evolving into something I want to write.
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