Stagger Mountain Tragedy

Kris Kristofferson

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I was born on Stagger Mountain in the sunshine and the snow And leaving was the first mistake I made But I hungered for the shadows in the valley down below And a girl that danced the tune the devil played Her smile was like the blinding light of sunshine on the snow And the flashing of her hair was black as sin. And her body set the smokes of hell a-boiling in my skull When the fiddle of the devil made her spin. Born in sunshine sunshine high on the mountain Where the air is pure and cold; But there’s darkness in the shadows In the canyons of my soul. The lantern cast her shadow like a demon on the wall And the naked sweat was gleaming on her skin; Then the room was spinning closer as her clothes began to fall And the eagle started screaming in my brain Then I saw the laughing dagger and I heard the devil scream And her bleeding heart was beating in my hand. Then the darkness flew away and I was standing by a tree With a hanging rope a-danglin’ from a limb. Born in sunshine sunshine high on the mountain Where the air is pure and cold; But there’s darkness in the shadows In the canyons of my soul.

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Cette chanson évoque un lien profond avec les montagnes, où le protagoniste est né sous le soleil et la neige. Cependant, en cherchant l'obscurité et les plaisirs du monde, il réalise que son départ fut une erreur. Il raconte sa fascination pour une jeune femme séduisante, dont la beauté illumine mais cache aussi une sombrité sinistre, symbolisée par les échos de la danse du diable. Le contraste entre la clarté du paysage montagneux et les ténèbres qui habitent son âme met en lumière la lutte intérieure entre la lumière et l'obscurité. Le contexte s'ancre dans un environnement rural, quelque part entre la beauté naturelle et l'attraction des plaisirs transgressifs, ce qui souligne les dilemmes moraux et les douleurs émotionnelles du narrateur. Cette tension entre le désir et les conséquences tragiques de ses choix semble sous-tendre tout le récit.

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