Bob Dylan; Precious Angel

ord begeting word. Word begeting Wisedom. Light alluring us through the darkness, through the the transendental

You were drawing water for your husband/You were suffing under the law/You were telling me about Budda/You were telling me about Mohamand in one breath/You never one time mentioned the man who came and died a criminals death.


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Bob Dylan";
Album:"Slow Train Comming";
Song:"Previous Angel";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Bob Dylan; Gotta Serve Somebody

This song can be summed up in two existental word "Either\Or". You can choose the aestetic life or the moral life. It break through the threshold of relativism. It passes by Marucs Aurelius and Epictetus, the king and the slave morality as a reaction towards scepticism. Instead of material ceiling, a trascendental choice. "You are gonna have to to serve somebody/It may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you're gonna have to serve somebody". While i can see Cato humming this to wayfarers as they come to the shores of purgatory. It clearly belongs in the the heaven due to its light and wisedom. Its is more about the advent of the word, and active wisedom which the indolent should heed.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Bob Dylan";
Album:"Slow Traing Comming"; Song:"Gotta Serve Sombody";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Bob Dylan; Jokerman

This song reads like the Wisdom literature of Bible...

Oh jokerman you know what he wants. Oh jokerman you don't show any response.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Bob Dylan";
Album:"Infidels";
Song:"Jokerman";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Lou Reed; Who Am I

Song is reflective of self and creation. A warrior of questioning. Shows great fortitude and courage and honesty

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lou Reed";
Album:"The Raven";
Song:"Who Am I";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Lou Reed; Call On Me

... Caught in the cross bow of ideas and journeys ... Stand I. Self Reflecting on challenges of life. The begin steps from passive life to active will up the 7 story mountain


The song is great example of song with two narrators with the second narrator pleading in faith hope and love .... Why didn't you call on me

See Narrator:Second

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lou Reed";
Album:"The Raven"; Song:"Call On Me";
Subject:"Narrator:First";
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent"

Lou Reed;Call On Me

The song is great example of song with two narrators.
The first narrator... Caught in the cross bow or ideas and journeys
and the second narrator pleading in faith hope and love .... Why didn't you call on me

See Narrator:First

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lou Reed";
Album:"The Raven"; Song:"Call On Me";
Subject:"Narrator:Second";
Rating:"Heaven:Fixed Stars";

Teenage Dream; Katy Perry

The song is of a seducer trivializing the affect of a their libinal expression, framing it in the false sense of individualism and choice, while leading the seducee into moral peril. There has been no consumation, only a white out of morality.



Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Katy Perry";
Album:"California Gurls";
Song:"Teenage Dream";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Hell:Malbolage:Seducers";

The Cure; Pictures Of You

A literal intepretation would put this in purgatory, AntePurgatory:The indolent. The Object of love would be earthly, passive and the subject doesn't have the power to turn it into active love.

See Allegoric Interpretation

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"The Cure";
Album:"Disintegration";
Song:"Pictures Of You";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

The Cure; Pictures Of You

The song is one of broking a vow of Love. If only I thought of the right word/I could have held on to your heart. If heart becomes "Heart of Christ", the songs resembles the regret of a nun who has left her vow due to a lack of fortitude.

See Literal Interpretation

Interpretation:"Allegoric";
Artist:"The Cure";
Album:"Disintegration";
Song:"Pictures Of You";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Moon";

Lou Reed and John Cale; Hello Its Me

A Song of Friendship...I really miss you\I really miss your mind\I haven't heard ideas like that for such a long, long time\Hello Its Me

The heart is rent as the narrator attempts to rush at the transendental barrier between him and his friend, with love and hope ... Hello its me

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lou Reed And John Cale";
Album:"Songs for Drella";
Song:"Hello Its Me";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Venus";

Van Morrison; In The Garden

Few songs come close to transend and reach the Ding ach sich (The thing itself). Each phrase falls off a hidden structure tumbling, folding, edifying the human soul. Fews songs leave us richer after each listen

... No guru, no method, no teacher/Just you and I and nature/And the Father and the Son/And the Holy Ghost in the garden/In the garden wet with rain

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Van Morrison";
Album:"No guru, No method, No teacher";
Song:"In The Garden";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Heaven:Empyrean";

Frank Black And The Catholics;I Will Run After You

A Pledge of unconditional love ...If you went away/called it all a day/said that we were through/.../wouldn't even cry/.../wouldn't even stew/Wouldn't look for another love, no

Shows great fortitude in loyalty, endurance in love with multiple refrains of...I will run after you

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Frank Black And The Catholics";
Album:"Black Letter Days";
Song:"I Will Run After You";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Neil Young; The Damage Done

He caught her knocking on his cellar door. But he doesn't seem he answer. He lost his band due to uncontrolled appetite--his substance abuse. He acknowledges his problem(no blaming others which would be indicative of the inferno)...he has seen the damage. He has a temporance issue, a control problem

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Neil Young";
Album:"After The Gold Rush";
Song:"The Damage Done";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Gluttony";

Ian Hunter; Michael Picasso

A Song of Friendship and friendship that bleeds into community ...He was always there for me...And we were there for you

You can hear the hossannas coming from the lights--in heart spinning tones. But slightly inpure due to a deficancy in Temperance ... too great a devotionor attachment to early love


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Ian Hunter";
Album:"Strings Attached";
Song:"Michael Picasso";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Venus";

The Velvet Underground; I'll Be Your Mirror

Divine Love while the Creation peaks at the Creator
(one allegoric meaning would map to Sarte's no exit. but the literal interpretation would point to Divine love)

When you think the night has seen your mind/That inside you're twisted and unkind/Let me stand to show that you are blind/Please put down your hands/'Cause I see you/I'll be your mirror

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"The Velevet Underground";
Album:"The Velevet Underground";
Song:"I'll Be Your Mirror";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Primum Mobile";

Katy Perry; California Gurls

The song reaks of falleness. Loring woman into believing that there is a glory in objectifying themselves. Snoop unleashing his libidinal thoughts at the end doesn't help. No one is edified by these lyrics. No good comes from fooling woman into devaluing themselves. All senses, no community beyond the material.


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Katy Perry";
Album:"California Gurls";
Song:"California Gurls";
Subject:"Narrators";
Rating:"Hell:Malbolge:Evil Councelors";

Neil Young; Ohio

A proding voice of Fortitude. Putting you face to face with your raw will and virtue -- and choice to do what is right ... What if you knew her/And found her dead on the ground/How can you run when you know. This is a song which forces the human will to the for front. it cannot hide. it needs to exercise its function to choose(be the wheat, be the chaff)


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Neil Young";
Album:"Greatest Hits";
Song:"Ohio";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Coldplay;The Scientist

Purgatorio: Canto 30.
The lyrics are reminiscent of Dante's confession to Beatrice in Earthly Paradise. He turns to his guide virgil and finds him gone. He senses Beatrice. She has a veil and is dressed in the colors of faith, hope, and love--white, green and red. She rebukes him. With tear filled eyes, Dante begins his final purgation--...Come up to meet you/Tell You I'm Sorry -- he confesses his falleness to the vanities of life after her death...Questions of Science/Science and Progress/Don't speak as loud as my heart

This song has an infectious melody and an amazing singer! -Daddy's anonymous little angel

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Coldplay";
Album:"A Rush Of Blood To The Head";
Song:"The Scientist";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Earthly Paradise";

Pink Floyd; Wish You Were Here

The first part of the song....So you think you can tell/Heavan from Hell?[Here the narrator is challanging the subjects wisedom. His understanding of paradox's and diochotomies. His logo-centrism.]

The second part of the song...Did they get you to trade/Your Heros for Ghost[Now he is questioning the comprosises he has made. In his imperfect understanding]


These questions or paradoxes lead to growth and a plea...How I wish/How I wish you were here[Here he is hopeful. A wish is Hopeful.]
The Narrartor is clearly in a different place than the person he is talking too. He reminisces about their previous state ...We're just two lost souls swimmiing in a fish bowl. Maybe in Rome. Maybe a roman, pagan friend. lost in the material, imperfect metaphysic...never to be redeemed or risen in Christian Love...Running over the same old ground. I see this song on the lips of Cato as he brings souls into purgatory


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Pink Floyd";
Album:"Wish You Were Here";
Song:"Wish You Were Here";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Shore";

Queen;These Are The Days Of Our Life

Chock full of Prudence, and Wisdom...No use sitting and thinkin' on what you did/When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Queen";
Album:"Innuendo";
Song:"These Are The Days Of Our Life";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Jason Derulo; Ridin Solo

This song becomes difficult to to rate. It sits between an excessive love of secondary good(his previous relationship) and some other state which is not mentioned. The fact that this is a backslide from the Puragtaory the lustful. shows that he could not have made it to this level. There are no backslides in purgatory.

He is remorseful...I am sorry that it didn't work out
I know it is purgatory, because it has hope...better days are going to get better.

But he is going solo which is more of a regrouping. Indolent

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Jason Derulo";
Album:"Jason Derulo";
Song:"Ridin Solo";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

The Velvet Underground; I'm Waiting for my Man

Shows some patience. Promptness. But the the subject suffers the weakness of addiction. He is not waiting to build community. He is not waiting to plant a tree. He is waiting to continue to invest in his own solapsism.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"The Velvet Underground";
Album:"The Velvet Underground";
Song:"I'm Waiting For My Man";
Subject:"Narrator; Rating:"Hell:Gluttony";

Pink Floyd; Fearless

Clearly the pyche is improving during the narrative. The subject is willing to take a challenge of climbing a hill but without hubris. Some say it is too steep to climb, but he takes the leap of faith.

...And as I rise above the tree lines and the clouds. I look down

From here he surpasses the goal untethered from philistine logic. Its about fortitude and overcomming fears

...And as you rise above the fear-lines in his brow
...You look down Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

Interpretation:"Allegorical";
Artist:"Pink Floyd";
Album:"Meddle";
Song:"Fearless";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Katherine McPhee; Terrified

This is active love. It is hopeful love. It is not clear if she has obtained the subject of her affection. Seems Imperfect, but hopeful. Excessive love a secondary good.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Katherine McPhee";
Album:"Unbroken";
Song:"Terrified";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Upper Purgatory:The Lustful";

Flaming Lips; Fight Test

The song starts out well

The narrator is showing temperance in will... thought it better not to fight/thought there was a virtue in always being cool

The narrator is showing prudence in understanding the limits of his intellect... I don't know where the sun beams end/And the startlights begin/Its all a mystery

Here is the fall

Be lacks judgement in his own will ... I don't know how a man decides what right for his own life/its all a mystery

then he regrets and lacks fortitude ....I should have fought him\but instead i let him/I let him take you

Interpretation: "Literal";
Artist:"Flaming Lips";
Album:"Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1";
Song:"Fight Test";
Subject:"Narrator";
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

Beatles; Dear Prudence

Divine Majesty. Dispels darkness from the psyche. ...The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful....won't you come out and play...

Interpretation:"Allegorical";
Artist:"Beatles";
Album:"The White Album";
Song:"Dear Prudence";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Beatles; Let It Be

Faith .. Let it Be
Hope ... When the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Love ... When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary come to me

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Beatles";
Album:"Let It Be";
Song:"Let It Be";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Fixed Stars";

Beatles; Two Of Us

Their is love of life, of companionship but with insufficient zeal for the goal of going home. ... Two of us going nowhere, whereing rain coats, ...Two of us not arriving. Lacks the zeal to complete the goal.
Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Beatles";
Album:"Let It Be";
Song:"Two Of Us";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Middle Puragtory:The Slothful";

Flaming Lips; Do You Realize

Teachers of wisedom chasing the shadows away, unwinding the majestries and mysteries bringing in the light, erasing the darkness

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Flaming Lips";
Album:"Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots";
Song:"Do You Realize";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Heaven:Sun";

Flaming Lips; Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1

Like cacciaguido (dante's ancestor) spoke of the young virtues of the early florentines, the narrator is an admirer of the virtue of fortitude for what is right and sacrificing himself for what is right. Yoshimi inspires endurance. She shows tremendous focus, fortitude, courage and conviction in training and protecting for the sake of rightousness. She inspirers others to be bigger than they are

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Flaming Lips";
Album:"Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots";
Song:"Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Alicia Keys; Unthinkable

This song shows the transition from passive love to active love. Two parties engage in selfless care for the other beyond bodily appetites and desire. Thats why it moves towards upper purgatory.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Alicia Keys";
Album:"The Element of Freedom";
Song:"Unthinkable";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Upper Puragtory:The Lustful";

Lady GaGa; Alejandro

Passive Love, not yet attained. one degree even before passive love, because a single object of affection has not been selected... the hope is that she "...has a halo around her finger around you". She does feel some guilt or a sense of self-blame or shame which show the beginning of caring about community, or others. On the road to repairing the communial psyche.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lady GaGa";
Album:"The Fame";
Song:"Alejandro";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

Lady GaGa; Bad Romance

I can't see anything healthy about this romance. The song has the word love in it over 30 times, but it is nothing but vacuous of love. It should more accurately read, "I want your hate..." Like a Bacchic ritual that tears at itself. That loves chaos and feeds off of its own dispair. It loves only it own boring self. Lip locked with its own grotesque specitcal. Never finding peace or rest. Real love has more courage than portrayed in this song, so it cannot be a song about love. Sounds like poor counsel.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lady GaGa";
Album:"The Fame";
Song:"Bad Romance";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Malebolge:Evil Counselors";

Train; Hey Soul Sister

The song is about passive love. Love not yet attained. It is all about his love. no evidence of her active love for him. If it turns toward aquiring the object of his affection, active, recipricated love it would be higher in purgatory just below earthly paradise.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Train";
Album:"Save Me, San Francisco";
Song:"Hey Soul Sister";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Purgatory:Indolent";

Beyonce Knowles; Halo

The song is about the transition from self to love of another. It has no excessive love of self. It it not blaming others for its state. It has humility. It is hopeful. But because it love grounded in a another person it is clearly not int heaven. But Heaven is the clear trajectory.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Beyonce Knowles";
Album:"I am...Sasha Fierce";
Song:"Halo";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Purgatory:Earthly Paradise";

Flaming Lips; Spoonful Weighs a Ton

The image is shockingly close to the Paradiso canto 22-26, as Dante climbs Jacobs Ladder towards the image of divine wisdom. "...Yelling as loud as they can/The doubters were all stunned/Heard louder than a gun/The sound they made was love

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Flaming Lips";
Album:"Soft Bulliten"; Song:"Spoonful Weighs A Ton";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Heaven:Fixed Stars";

Flaming Lips; Race For The Prize

Like warriors these "Two scientists" show fortitude "Racing for the good of all mankind...so determined". The song oozes virtue. No hubis. "Under the micro scope/Hope against Hope". Like Cacciaguida who oozes the early virtues of florence. The hearty virtues which build a residual surplus which fortify future generations.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Flaming Lips";
Album:"Soft Bulliten";
Song:"Race For The Prize";
Subject:"Subject";
Rating:"Heaven:Mars";

Paramore;Misguided Ghost

The narator in the song has humility..."We learn to make mistakes".The narator is not wishing harm on a neighbor, so they are not in lower purgatory where the proud, envious and wrathful purge. They have a quest "Would someone care to classify Our broken hearts and twisted minds/So I can find someone to rely on". They seek community.

The narator has no rest. They is running... "and run from them". So they are not slothful. They seem to suffer from excessive love of secondary good. There is no rest in secondary goods. They are transiant. Hence no rest. No peace. They suffer from a defective love of a secondard "good" which I do not sense to be covetousness of material. It is about "some one to rely on". The restlessness needs to be worked out in purgatory in the area for defective relience on transient love. Love in purgatory is love in the transient, not the eternal--that is why it is still called lustful. They are on step from earthly paradise which is attainment of what they seek and redirected toward eternal love


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Paramore";
Album:"Brand New Eyes";
Song:"Misguided Ghosts";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Upper Puragtory:The Lustful";

Taio Cruz; Break Your Heart

He is up front about his flaw. He is taking ownship of his flaw. (note people in Dante's hell never admit they are wrong or the cause of there own situation). He is warning her. He is not mis-leading. He might tear her apart. Which has hope (might), but again he is not misleading or selling it as a virtue. He is at best delaying it. Delaying the work he needs to do.


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Taio Cruz";
Album:"Break Your Heart";
Song:"Break Your Heart";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

Kesha; Blah, Blah, Blah

The narrator feigns a confidence and leadership as if her candidness, her frankness is bringing the subject to some foundational wisedom about life. She is a siren manipulating the weak willed. She's leading another human on a journey to be dismantled under the ripping surf, under the specticle. She will hide in the chaos, in the large wake of the debray. It makes her seem large, and makes another feel small, powerless. But the wisedom is vacuous. The song promotes has no love, no community, no mending.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Kesha";
Album:"Animal";
Song:"Blah, Blah, Blah";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Malebolge-Seducers";

Van Morrison; Sweet Thing

The narrator is in an state of peace and ecstacy. "...I will stroll the merry way and jump the hedges fist", but not yet complete in oneness, resting in God. He begins to be purifyed in river Eunoe..."And you shall take me strongly in your arms again and I will not remember that I even felt the pain". Now ready to mount the stars and move toward oneness with God

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Van Morrison";
Album:"Astral Weeks";
Song:"Sweet Thing";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:The Earthly Paradise";

The Velvet Underground; Sunday Morning

The lyrics have the remorsefulness of the late repentant. The nararator is cast in an over-indulgent fog set on by the previous night, but this is balanced with a hopeful "praise" of the morning and the dawn. In some sense there is an over indulgance in community and there is a hope that "There's always someone around you who will call"

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"The Velvet Underground";
Album:"The Velvet Underground";
Song:"Sunday Morning";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Purgatory:Late Repentant-Indolent";

Lady GaGa; Telephone

What if the caller is sick, or trapped under a chest of draws. It is a song about weakness and self indulgence. The callee has lapsed into solapsism. retreated into there own subjectiveness. The song destroys community. Luke 11:5-8;

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lady GaGa";
Album:"The Fame";
Song:"Telephone";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Incontinence-Gluttonous";

Beatles;All You Need Is Love;

Has all the elements of Faith, Hope and Charity(Love)

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Beatles";
Album:"Magical Mystery Tour";
Song:"All You Need Is Love";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Fixed Stars";

Amon Amarth; Runes To My Memory

If you take this song in its celtic context, you see the morality of an expansionist hero culture--not unlike a homeric hero. It has some community. He wants to be buried with his kin folk in a mound. He wants a rune raised in his memory with his story. He doesn't want to to be erased from the mind of his community. And he is hopeful for an afterlife. That was my first scan of the lyrics.

But then the moral anaomilies begin to stack up. Wanting runes raise to his memory tends to lack humility. And what was he doing in the land of the Rus? I am sure he was not there helping the poor, widows and orphans. I am sure he was not repairing homes with the sword he was clutching on the shoreline while anouncing his funeral preferences. He was probably using his sword to create the poor, to create widows and to create orphans. That said, he was promoting his community, while destroying another (ex.the land of Rus). I would put the lyric in 7th circle of Hell for violence against neighbors


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Amon Amarth";
Album:"Twilight of the Thunder God";
Song:"Runes To My Memory";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Violence Against Neighbors";

U2;Grace

"The New Eve"

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"U2";
Album:"All That You Can't Leave Behind";
Song:"Grace";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Heaven:Primum Mobile";

Lady Gaga;Love Game

The narrator is tempting another into wrecklessness. Mal-directed love. Love that has no communal value.

Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Lady GaGa";
Album:"The Fame";
Song:"LoveGame";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Malbolage:Seducers";

The Rules

The Premise:
There are blogs about what you put in your body. This is blog about what you put in your head.

The main premise is, if this was the only lyric an individual had to use as guide for his life, where would they windup in Dante’s Framework -- The feral child effect.

The blog takes the lyrics of songs and categorizes them into the framework laid out in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The song can be categorized in one the three major regions in Dante’s framework Inferno, Purgatorio or Paradiso. Within each of these regions there are minor level of categorizations specialized for that region.

How to use the site:

Simply post a song an experts will categorize and will provide a rationale for the rating.

Or post your own rating and rationale

The Method:
Step One:
The first question is who is the subject of the song? Is there a Narrator? Is there a single subject? Are there multiple subjects?

The Second question to begin the speculation is:

“If this was the only lyric an individual had to use as guide for his life, where would they windup in Dante’s Framework?”
a) Will it lead to a life of unrepentant, self indulgence? Hell.
b) Will it promote community and repentance in an impure state? Purgatory
c) Will lead to the purest statement of given virtue? Paradise

The major and minor categories are:

The third question is can the song be interpreted literally or allegorically

Once these three questions are answered, a finer criteria is applied

Step Two:
Once the Major region is selected, there is a specialized criterion to be used for each Major region to place the lyric in the appropriate minor level.

Hell:
If the song has neither elements of (B) nor (C), the lyric is categorized by its dominant trait or sin (disease of the spirit). The levels are:

Purgatory:
If the song contains elements of (B), the lyric is categorized by its dominant trait or sin. If the lyric contains multiple sins, it must start at the lowest level sin.

Paradise:
If the song contains elements of (C), the lyric is categorized by its dominant trait of virtue. If the lyric contains multiple virtues, it must start at the lowest level virtue.


A Simple Example:

Start with a literal interpretation.

Elvis Presley, Hound Dog

“You ain’t nothing but a hound dog”, “Crying all the Time”… Ain’t never caught a rabbit, and You ain’t no friend of mine”

“You ain’t nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time”. The song is one of rebuking an individual for being overly emotional”. We have a choice to rate the narrator or the subject of the song.

“You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine”. The narrator is specifically rebuking the person for not achieving there purpose in life—a time waster. This song on the surface seems like a "the late repentant", but I don't know why the person is crying so i don't know if it is right or wrong crying. The song actually never tells me. The song actually never describes any hope of the person ever stop crying.

So I would recommend we turn to the narrator of the song.

Pay close attention to the particularly damning line and “you ain’t no friend of mime” which denotes a lack of community on the narrators’ part. The song and this line must be further decomposed to discover the narrator’s place of mind.
“When they said you was high classed, Well, that was just a lie.”
The narrator offers not criteria as whether high classed is good or bad, but say “they” are false in there assessment. As earlier, the narrator never says whether these are righteous tears or unrighteous. And finally, the verse turns back to the fact that this person being rebuked cannot join the community because they have never succeeded at hunting rabbits.

Because the narrator offers no criteria for “high class” or the "tears" to evaluate, but claims it as false, I believe this song resonates a form of sophism to me. It lacks humility. I find that the repeated listening of this song, without additional stimulus would land this song and listner in the Hell, on the Malebolge, under Evil Counselors.

Rating on the Dante Scale

Interpretation:"Literal";

Artist:"Elvis Presely";

Album:"";

Song:"Hound Dog";

Subject:"Narrator;

Rating:"Hell:Malbolage:Evil Counselors";

Disclaimer
Note, this program is not meant as a tool to morally judge individual artists. It is just an assertion that if this was the only lyric an individual had to use as guide for his life, where would they windup in Dante’s Framework

Pink Floyd;Wish You Were Here;Have a Cigar

Simple fraud, misdirection of the intellect


Interpretation:"Literal";
Artist:"Pink Floyd";
Album:"Wish You Were Here";
Song:"Have a Cigar";
Subject:"Narrator;
Rating:"Hell:Malbolage:Flatters";