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Be Mine
The title comes from the original
intention of the song, to take all the lyrics from the little
Valentine's Day candy hearts. [Joshua
Hall-Bachner]
"I'll pluck the thorns out of your
feet."
This refers to the story of [Androcles]
and the lion, where he befriended the lion that was going to
eat him by pulling a painful thorn from its paw. [Joshua Hall-Bachner]
"I'll want to wash you with my
hair."
Mary Magdalen washed Jesus's feet
with her hair as a form of penance. [Mike
Shriver]
"I'll eat the lotus and peyote."
Lotus -- resembles a water-lily.
common symbol in eastern religions. in Greek myth, the lotus-eaters
were proto-junkies living in lotus-induced euphoria and caring
naught for the world. Peyote -- also known as mescal, a
drug derived from the lophophora williamsii plant, hallucinogenic,
much favoured by Aldous Huxley and William S. Burroughs. [macrae] *
Actually, the term "lotus eating" refers to eating
not the flowers, but the fruit of the lotus tree, Diospyrus
lotus (not to be confused with Nymphea stellata, a
water lily also known as a lotus). When eaten, this fruit allegedly
brings on "a dreamy languor and forgetfulness." Greek
legend makes reference to a group of people or deities (not sure
which) called the Lotophagi (lit. "lotus eaters"),
and I assume this is where the modern references come from. [Laura del Col]
* See also Lotus.