![]() Literary Placement – ‘There She Goes, My Beautiful World’, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus What better place to start than an opening line. Therefore, one enters Cave’s museum (or perhaps odditorium) of song, marvel at the wildly varied artefacts, nonetheless exhibits fittingly bound under the same roof by shared singular stylings, and, as we journey, we shall see what links the real gems together. Reassuringly, however, he went on to single out the opener for ‘Fairytale’ and states that it is “one of the greatest opening lines ever written”. ![]() As Cave said himself, in his weekly forum ‘The Red Hand Files’ regarding the BBC censorship of The Pogues classic ‘Fairytale of New York’: “The idea that a word or line, in a song can simply be changed for another and not do it significant damage is a notion that can only be upheld by those that know nothing about the fragile nature of songwriting.” As Chris Morris once said, this quote serves as, “proof, if proof be need be”, of the rightfully esteemed regard in which Cave holds the delicate act of lyric writing and how important it is that any given line fits in with the whole.
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