'The water's blue, swallow the pill / Keeping it surreal, whatever you like'
was a Biblical judge whose hair granted him superhuman strength, enabling him to slay lions with his bare hands and massacre an entire army using only the jawbone of a donkey. Until his lover Delilah betrayed him, that is, by cutting off his hair. Soon afterwards, Samson was captured by his enemies and had his eyes gouged out before being forced to grind grain for the rest of his life.
Frank is referencing the Ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra who dishonoured her country by becoming the mistress of Marc Antony, a conqueror who wanted Egypt as Roman territory. Here, Frank goes from calling her “the jewel of Africa” to wailing, “our war is over, our queen has met her doom”.
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