“Top floor motel suite twisting my cigars” is expressing the financial relationship between pimp and working woman.

“Death” Could refer to his love interest figuratively being dead to him because of her …show more content… Got rubies in my damn chain.” This is where the song grows confusing, it is now the perspective of the man she left Frank for, centuries have passed and he is now the pimp that she works for. “No more, he has killed Cleopatra” refers to two aspects: her death by means of the serpent, and her serpent-like character which was the cause of her demise. Rather than her being in her room, it is empty of her presence and instead a lingering feeling of grief and anger fills her empty space. Her angry lover compares her to a serpent. No more, he has killed Cleopatra…” The “serpent” imagery here is the symbol of treason and disloyalty. “No more, she lives no more, serpent in her room.

Also implied is Frank's jealousy towards the other man, him saying Samson's “full head of hair” can be seen as an implication that he feel inferior compared to him, since his full head of hair granted him superhuman strength. By using this line he is implying that Cleopatra has betrayed her race by running off and leaving her King (Frank). She is no longer revered, but used and …show more content… His lover, Delilah, betrayed him, and had his hair cut leading to him being captured and blinded.

His Queen leaves him for another man, but he has no plans to treat her with the honor and respect her king had, thus bringing on her decline from Queen/Goddess in her home land to her now degrading role as an object to men in the western hemisphere. In this song he is making a reference to the historical Cleopatra, who brought dishonor to her country by becoming Marc Antony’s mistress (Marc Antony was a conqueror who wanted Egypt as Roman territory) - in the song he narrates the same story happening between him and this woman (Cleopatra). Pyramids, a song written by Frank Ocean is a historical account of the black man and woman in America and their slow fall from grace, from Gods to dogs symbolically.

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