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| Mark Lanegan – Pendulum Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In contrast to the peaceful acceptance of "El Sol," the narrator here is bothered, haunted by the prospect of living in the cold. He's tired, he wants to lay down, he feels the cold creeping in and wants to get warm. |
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| Mark Lanegan – El Sol Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The closer you get to Heaven, the farther away it feels. A song of resignation, but not despair. The narrator has learned not to stand around waiting for the warmth of the sun, has embraced and made peace with the shadows in which he finds himself. |
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| Mark Lanegan – Borracho Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The central theme of Mark's oeuvre takes center stage in this one. The battle between the seductions of the Devil and the struggle toward the light. His need turns the desert into an ocean; the better angels have lost the battle again. Is "all of heaven's love" the narrator's brief redemption? Or is it actually the feeling of losing himself to alcohol, to dissipation? Or both? |
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| Mark Lanegan – Field Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A love song from an innocent narrator. "To be a horse, to be a train, I wouldn't have the heart"--he's pledging to stay. But it's tentative, and one gets the sense from the song that the narrator will ultimately move on, and leave this sweet, youthful love behind. A "Song of Innocence" foreshadowing the anticipated "Songs of Experience" on down the road from this. |
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| Mark Lanegan – When Your Number Isn't Up Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Even though my life has had a very different trajectory than Lanegan's, I believe I've been in the place he sings about in this song--that desolate sort of place where you're "in between the worlds," not dead but yet strangely aloof and detached from the world of the living. The narrator of this song is surprised that he's still alive, and still feels close to death--that "frozen border"--but knows that his "number isn't up," that it isn't his time to die. What's left is to "janitor the emptiness"--which is all any of us ever really do, it's just that the narrator of this song has the haunting knowledge of it. |
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| The Twilight Singers – Number Nine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Greg Dulli has stated in interviews that the narrative of Blackberry Belle begins with a suicide, and then flashes back to the events leading up to that suicide. "Number Nine" is the narrative of what unfolds right before the suicide.
My surmise beyond this is that both of the voices in this song belong to the same character. One is his basic personality, another is the devil that lives in his head. Not talking about psychosis here, but a more universal sort of mental battle. Lanegan's voice gives the part of the exhausted man ready to hang it up. Dulli's voice taunts Lanegan but Lanegan's narrator has already given up. Dulli's voice is the Devil, the embodiment of the hard living and despair that ultimately destroy the album's protagonist, as voiced here by Lanegan. |
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