Re: She's A Bomb...

[Robert LaTerra <rlaterra@mill-max.com>]

drjimmy@pop.access.digex.net wrote:

>   When that song first came out, and was played on the radio alot,
>   a friend of mine had told me that Athena was a name given to one
>   one the H-Bombs that were dropped on Japan in WW2(the big one)...
>   Thus, Pete saying "she's a bomb!"...and considering the line
>   "Look into the face of a child, measure how long he smiles to the
>    memory fades.."....it made me think for a while "hmmmm...maybe.."
> 

This is something I heard as well.  Knowing how deep a thinker Pete is
(although this is not anywhere near as deep as some of his previous
lyrics .....  then again, he was boozing it up quite heavily at that
time),  I'll go with this interpretation of this somg.

Rob LaTerra