He has vanquished his enemy - there’s no long anything in his way - but he finds himself forlorn. He pleads with God to end his life the day after this career high moment. What often gets less stage time is the dark night of the soul that follows Elijah’s literal mountain top experience. Even if you didn’t grow up in Sunday school, there’s still a chance you’ve heard the story of Elijah and how he single handedly took 400 false prophets to task in an epic showdown of “Whose God is Real Anyway?” If there were a hall of fame for the prophets, Elijah calling fire down from heaven would earn him one of the tallest trophies. This is one of many hidden messages in the life of one of the more well known prophets in the Old Testament. Something else will always get in the way, leaving you right back where you started. Regardless of the desire to heal, the walls of the well of sadness and purposelessness are too high to scale and climb out. There exists an inner dark night of the soul that can’t be cured by human achievement or effort. But by the end of the song and its unending chorus, one is left with the impression that there’s something else going on below the surface, that maybe the thing in the way is Cobain himself.
#Something in the way series
As if it has conspired against Cobain to put a series of setbacks in his way. Though this would later be proved to be a myth, the homeless imagery and the angsty mood of the song expresses a frustration with the world.
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For years, the opening lyrics, “underneath the bridge, tarp has sprung a leak” were interpreted as lead singer Kurt Cobain’s attempt to put to words his own experiences of homelessness in his adolescent years. Clearly, the song hits a nerve in a way that can’t be written off as another case of 90s nostalgia.įor context, the song describes the emotional turmoil and plight of living without a home in this world. In the weeks and months after The Batman, “Something in the Way” shot up the billboard charts. Watching this budding hero attempt to punch his way out of the hole of his own pain is a bit like listening to three hours of Nirvana’s “Something In The Way” on repeat - a song which bookends the film with plain intention. Standing in place of the familiar playboy billionaire detective is a wounded thirty-year-old wearing eyeliner who has reserved the title “Vengeance” for himself.
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There’s an uneasy, slow-moving shadow over DC’s latest rendition of The Batman.