Themes Explored
The song's titular character, a powerful man who talks to "his world" and to himself by telephone, abuses both the women (whom he "owns") and the men (sending them "pebbles and stones") in his charge. The lyrics deal with feminism, the emotional distance and cruelty sometimes shown by men, and the dehumanizing of both sexes.
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Famous quotes containing the words themes and/or explored:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)