Who is the Cassandra mentioned in “Voices?
The verse goes: Maybe I’m just Cassandra fleeting Twentieth Century icon bleeding Willing to risk salvation To escape from isolation Cassandra was a figure in Greek mythology who was the object of the god Apollo’s affections. He gave her the power to tell the future, but when she would not return his love, he made it so that no one would ever believe the prophecies she gave, although they were right. The Fleeting part comes in because she foretold the downfall of the city of Troy, but no one she told would believe her. So she knew it was going to happen, but couldn’t warn anyone. ‘Fleeting’ means that she’s trying to do something even though she knows it won’t work, not ‘fleeing’ as in running from something.
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