"Here is your cart, your cardboard and piss" - a metapor?
I was listening to Leonard Cohen's Here It Is and wondered what the lyrics mean:
Here is your crown And your seal and rings; And here is your love For all things.
Here is your cart, And your cardboard and piss; And here is your love For all of this.
At first I did not get the meaning at all (What? Cart, cardboard and piss? Why would one love them?). However, after some consideration I think I understand what it means but I still have some doubts. In the first verse the objects mentioned represent someone powerful and high-ranking (crown, seal, rings). In the second verse, the objects probably represent someone miserable and low-ranking. So is it a bum pushing his cart, sleeping on a filthy piece of cardboard? These things are the world to him, and they mean as much to him as a crown, seal, and rings mean to a king.
Top answer
Hi, Sounds like a reasonable interpetation to me. I like Leonard Cohen. ) [8] Clive
— Clive
Hi, Sounds like a reasonable interpetation to me.
I like Leonard Cohen.
) [8] Clive
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