November songs...μία παράλειψη

Μία ασυγχώρητη παράβλεψη στα τραγούδια του Νοεμβρίου...Tom Waits, "November"

No shadows, no stars
There's no moon and no cars
November
Only believes in a pile of dead leaves
And a moon that's the color of bone
No prayers for November to linger longer
Stick your spoon in the wall(2)
And we'll slaughter them all
November has tied me to an old dead tree
Get word to April to rescue me
November's cold chain made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens on chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November
With my hair slicked back with carrion shellac(3)
And the blood from a pheasant and the bone from a hare
Tied to the branches of a roebuck stag
Left to wave in the timber like a buck shot(4) flag
Go away, you rainsnout
Go away, blow your brains out
November

(2) Stick your spoon in the wall: Stick one's spoon in the wall: phr. [19C] to die (Source: "Cassell's Dictionary Of Slang". Jonathon Green. Cassel & Co., 1998. ISBN: 0-304-35167-9)
(3) Carrion shellac: Many American "Indians" in the Northwest used bear fat to make their hair look slick. In the 50's, American teenagers used Wildroot Cream Oil and other brands to do the same thing. Shellac is a gluey paint - type stuff you put on wood to treat it and make it look shiny. You can do the same with your hair. And if you make it from carrion, you will carry with you the aroma of rotting meat that vultures might fight you for ;-) (Submitted by Gary Duncan. Raindogs Listserv discussionlist. September, 2000)
(4) Buck shot flag- Flag shot with a shot gun; tattered (Submitted by El RayoX. Raindogs Listserv discussionlist. September, 2000)- Buckshot n. 1. A large lead shot for shotgun shells, used especially in hunting big game (Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin - Third Edition) - One variation of the little metal pellets that fill a shotgun shell. An individual piece of buckshot is larger and more damaging than some other types, like birdshot. Larger pellets for larger animals

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