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To: Oblomov who wrote (253162)7/30/2003 8:07:59 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor  Respond to of 436258
 
LOL! This answer was brilliant: "Undecided as to whether Axl's welcome was being extended from a position within the jungle, or whether what he actually meant was "YOU'RE welcome to the jungle, I myself have recently moved to the suburbs"

I think the question begs a deeper examination of the themes explored in the aforementioned opus:

Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey, we got your disease

In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
I, I wanna watch you bleed

Welcome to the jungle we take it day by day
If you want it you're gonna bleed but it's the price you pay
And you're a very sexy girl, that's very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights, but you won't get them for free
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
I, I wanna hear you scream

Welcome to the jungle it gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal in the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see, you'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me

In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
I'm gonna watch you bleed

When you're high you never ever want to come down
Suck down, suck down, suck down

You know where you are, you're in the jungle baby
You're gonna die, in the jungle
Welcome to the jungle, watch it bring you to your knees, knees
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
Down in the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It gonna bring you down-HA


For example is the line about "money, honey" a veiled reference to the corrosive influence of the media, through the vehicle of Maria Bartromo (and that it has thus infected the broader society with "disease")? And in "tasting the bright lights, is he speaking metaphorically of self-annihilation described by Neitzsche? Or perhaps more of a Jungian duality, dark/lightness? In "feel mah, mah, mah serpentine", is this a Kekulean cycle of self renewal? Or simply being real manned again by a bad investment choice?

As the brilliant philosopher Theodore Seuss, PhD once hypothesized: "The things you can think....if only you try!"<G>