Eraserheads – Spoliarium lyrics

Spolarium. Its one of their songs I'm mad about that I can even play it 5 times a row. Haha. Every fan knows the lyrics, and can singalong each time it will be played whether its thee head's original version or that of Imago's. You'll love the song, you'll sing along but you wont understand or realized what it wants todepict. Its vague, perplex, confusing yet everyone loves singing it. I heard that its allabout alcoholism, suicide, Ely's song of quittingthe group, etc. But what does it really mean? We all know that Spolarium was painted by Juanluna during the 19th century. Does it have to do with the song? I came across a blog which tried to decipher it, in hope of giving justification to the words made by Ely. The lyrics was literally translated to English with additional explanation of spolarium and other significant facets in the song. But still, he or she wasn't able to give a good conclusion. It was then by scrolling downthat I was able to notice a comment made be one who I assumed to be a up student. We all know that the band came from up. And I was surprised. There is doubt butwhether it is true or not, I guess that's the beauty of Ely's work. Mystifying. Here's quoted from the comments: Gold Says: November 13, 2008 at 9: 40 pmif you wanna know what this song actually means, I could share it with you. Professors here in the University of the Philippines know about it and they share it in class whenever the song comes in discussions. It is actually the story of the rape victim Pepsi who were allegedly raped by Vic, Joey, and someone –I forgot the name. She was made to drink too much by the three (this is described in the first 3 stanzas of the song) and when she wasunconscious, they raped her. Pepsi died when she was about to cry out for justice. There were rumors that Pepsi did not commit suicide butshe was killed to stop her from testifying in court. So after knowing that, the song is pretty much direct except for some parts like “itigilmuna ang pag-ikot ng mundo”. We can interpret this part differently. It can mean that the victim wanted her oppressors to stop their manipulations or she was just too tired of everything that’s happening that she wanted the world to just stop. Pepsi was not able to receive justice. Until now, there is no closure to her case. And whether Vicand Joey were guilty, no one can prove it. I assume Ely Buendia, who wrote the song, learned about Pepsi’s misery when he was still in the university. Maybe for him, even if Pepsi was not able to testify, the song would speak out the truth. Here's an excerpts of an interesting article I found thru the net: talk show fundy C. Sorianosaturday.

The song is brutally direct to the point for those who know the pepsi paloma rape case. I was a teener when this song first aired. I did not have the slightest idea what the song was all about until I heard about pepsi paloma. Now, evrytime I played this song on my guitar, the screen name "pepsi" always came into the picture.

So she was killed before her 18th birthday. To prevent her from testifying against the three of them (Vic Sotto, Joey Deleon and Richie D' Horsie). Another thing is, the lyrics - di ko na mabasa pagkat meron nang nagbura was referring to tito sotto right? How sad. Kaawa awa naman si miss pepsi.

Ely Buendia, or the singer, has said in a podcast, that the song means "getting pissed drunk." It doesn't correlate to the Pepsi Paloma case, but he also says that he likes the myth. Enteng and Joey are Ely's actual friends, and they are not the boys who r@p3d Pepsi.

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