Salvador

Had this song around a long time, it is about the absurdity of war (comparing scenes of war to the works of Salvador Dali - if you're curious about the title)... seems timely

SUNO: https://suno.com/song/2ad3b685-6048-4bf4-8b19-7c060efed711

ORIGINAL: https://jumpshare.com/share/vwPTI89YiYjv2cHzdKXV


SALVADOR

[Verse 1]

Give it everything you got

Take it all with your very first shot

Do what you need to survive

They're never takin' me alive

It all comes down to the bottom line

You're guaranteed a very good time

South of the border line

Feels like we're melting in time


[Chorus]

(Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name for

Salvador is the name, it's just another nam

(Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name fore for

Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name for war


[Verse 2]

Buy these missiles, buy these guns

We'll have the people on the run

Watch out, they're coming down the shore

Looks like you better buy some more

We'll sell you ships with butterfly wings

Beauty to tempt Saint Anthony

A thousand faces stare from the one

Standing naked before the sun


[Bridge]

These visions that you see in your mind

Are there for you to find

Strung out from doubt

'Til you don't know what is real


[Instrumental]


[Verse 4]

Slipping hands in a poor man's pocket

Buy the mothers one more rocket

Tie on the babies and watch them fly

You'll have a million more dreams like this

before you die


[Chorus]

(Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name for

Salvador is the name, it's just another name

(Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name fore for

Salvador)

 is the name, it's just another name for war

Comments

  • bhengen
    bhengen usa
    edited March 7

    Dalí’s work has nothing to do with war. His paintings weren’t political statements — they were explorations of the subconscious, dream logic, and the inner landscape. Associating his art with the horrors of war flattens everything that made his work meaningful. Repeating the motif just ties his name to something he never represented. It doesn’t illuminate Dalí — it just misuses him. this isn't cute, clever or funny.

  • MoraAmaroLaLoba
    MoraAmaroLaLoba Madrid (Spain)


    I listened to the original track and had a great time despite being in the middle of this war you're offering us... Great lyrics, everything is absurdly real...

    Dalí was such an intelligent being, he knew the world so well that he created a persona capable of any absurd thing to pass the time without feeling hurt, while his real self painted a world where, if there had been a war, it would have been a tomato war.


    Mora




    Viva España

  • I am genuinely puzzled by this comment.

    Dali's famous painting "The Face of War" which is one of the images referenced in the song, is an example:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_of_War

    "The trauma and the view of war had often served as inspiration for Dalí's work. He sometimes believed his artistic vision to be premonitions of war. This work was painted between the end of the Spanish Civil War [1936] and the beginning of the Second World War (1939).

    The painting depicts a withered, disembodied head hovering against a barren desert landscape. The face is withered like that of a corpse and wears an expression of fear and misery. In its mouth and eye sockets, there are identical faces. In their mouths and eyes, there are more identical faces in a process implied to be infinite. Swarming around the large face are biting serpents. In the lower right corner is a handprint that Dalí insisted was left by his own hand."

    From a simple AI search:

    Key Paintings About War:

    • The Face of War (1940): A, large, haunting, disembodied face with expressionless eyes and mouth filled with smaller, identical, screaming faces, suggesting infinite destruction and pain.
    • The Burning Giraffe (1937): Painted towards the end of the Spanish Civil War, it features a towering, burning figure and figures with drawers, reflecting Dalí's anxiety about the coming world war.
    • Daddy Longlegs of the Evening, Hope! (1940): Created upon his arrival in the U.S., it features a "Winged Victory" figure and a broken landscape, acting as a bleak commentary on the conflict.
    • Soft Watch at the Moment of its First Explosion (c. 1950s): Explores the disruption of time and reality during conflict, echoing themes of his famous melting clocks.
    • The Enigma of Hitler (1939): A piece reflecting the rising tension and horror in Europe, featuring dark, symbolic imagery. 


  • Thanks for proving my point.

  • MuskieBait44
    MuskieBait44 Great White North
    The chorus works well. I like it.
    Dali was an early influence on me. Opened me up to draw any crazy scene I could imagine. Sadly forgot a lot of my art history I learned in college.
  • I'm more a Lennon meets Picasso kind of guy, but this works for me Has a nice groove.

    Good stuff!

  • "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore..."

  • Good song man , I never heard of Salvador the man , but sounds like a interesting fellow

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