Question:
Who killed the Kennedy's? Sympathy of the Devil? Rolling Stones???
2008-02-16 12:45:48 UTC
In the lyrics of Sympathy of the devil, by Rolling Stones, what does it mean when it says: I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys, after all it wasyou and me. I will reward for a nice good answer.
Six answers:
Tim D
2008-02-17 01:17:54 UTC
For the background to the lyrics of Sympathy for the Devil, read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.



In the song, the Devil (the narrator) can be seen as the darker, tempted portion of the consciousness of mankind rather than an actual figure – every human has within them the capacity for evil, all it takes for evil flourish is for man to stand by and do nothing.



On the other hand, for those believing that the Devil exists as an entity, he is carrying out his purpose – to lay temptation in mankind's path and mankind is responding.



btw if you can, listen to Sandie Shaw's cover of the song.
2008-02-16 13:17:53 UTC
To me it has meant that we all killed the Kennedys by our acceptance of the way things were in America at that time. That we couldn't sit on the sidelines and blame the government or some crazed lone assasin for these killings. It seemed to be a cry for us to rise up and revolt against the government.



This was a time of a huge amount of tension in the U.S. partly due to the Civil Rights movement, coupled with the anti Vietnam War protests. My brothers were about 8-10 years older than me at that time, and they were of the Beach Boys, everythings all right if you're white era. I was in a totally different environment where we were pretty much revolting against everything that our parents stood for. And to see our heros assasinated caused a lot of despair, hate, anger, disillusionment, "blaming", as the song asks about, and general confusion about our country and its future.



A movie that really struck home to me that played in the theatres recently is, "Across the Universe". In it is the assasination not of one of the Kennedys, but of M.L. King. However, the reactions to these killings was the same, one of wonderment as to who on earth would want to see these heros dead?!!! So, the question, "Who killed the Kennedys?" came a lot just from shock. But I guess it also is actually asking literallly, "Who"?



I hope this helps.
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2016-05-28 13:10:02 UTC
"the church"? There are many branches of Christianity and not all people in each branch even think the same. The fundies of course are stupid and over-cautious about it, just as they are about rejecting Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath without reading lyrics *in context*. You could interpret the lyrics with lucifer being a metaphor for evil, or the literal lucifer that tempted all those incidents, and who is trying to tempt the listener.
2008-02-16 12:57:47 UTC
the song could be thought of as sung by the devil- so, he killed jfk along with making all of the other bad things happen in the world. it also points out that humans can do things as bad as the devil - "after all, it was you and me." they changed the lyrics after his death because it fit in with the song.
Mason
2016-12-01 20:14:06 UTC
"You and Me" are the American People who elect the U.S. Government who funds the CIA who wrote the Warren Commission Conspiracy Theory
2016-08-27 07:54:48 UTC
And the same question shows up again


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