| Swan Lake – All Fires Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Also, does anyone have any idea as to why your mother is referred to as simply "another?" It must relate to my above point somehow... | |
| Swan Lake – All Fires Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't see why the biblical references, each of which worth parsing individually, have to add up to some explicitly religious theme or message. They each have their own reasons for being in the song, but I see no connecting pattern. Divine imagery is just a smart, easy way for Krug to add emotional weight and epic feel to the mythical narrative he is shaping (as if that guitar wasn't enough.) Though it yet remains turbid in my mind, I feel pretty sure that this song is, somewhere below all those layers of wailing prettiness, using gender to highlight the essential tragedy of humankind. Notice first that both the narrator and the addressed are male. Notice also that every mention of Theresa, the unattainable, unidentifiable maiden at the center of this cryptic ballad, is prompted by some catastrophe (heartbreak, mass drowning, partial dismemberment/perpetual immolation.) And the Mason's wife swims "for" her daughter, not "to" her, implying that the struggling mother fails to make it to the girl it in time. Given the chivalry of those times when towns had steeples, Masons, and no plans or tools to mollify a flood, the five hundred wood floats would have been given chiefly to women and their children. Every woman in this tale (excluding your sister, who, to you, isn't effectively a woman at all, because, well, she's your sister, although the syntax of the lines does almost seem to blame her for your lack of brothers...) has someone suffering for her sake. This isn't a sexist imprecation of the female, though. Women are doing the suffering too. And, because the purity and beauty of woman renders life itself both possible and worthwhile, people will die for her willingly, and still love her even after. So, though Eve will make him Fall, Adam gladly yanks out his rib. Man must endure incompleteness, death, heartche, lust, loneliness, just to keep his other half around. He never quite seems to get the girl, though. In fact, he's been burning for her for millennia. Love hurts, ya know? |
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| Pavement – Blue Hawaiian Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| my favorite song, although by no means their best. I never even caught that the capital S followed by a t as referring to SMs name; I thought it was a tongue in cheek way of calling himself a saint. (St.Me) | |
| Pavement – Pueblo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Firstly, a m drones, you MUST listen to the early version of this ( subtitled Beach Boys) on CRCR: LAs Desert Origins. The hook which defines the Wowee Zowee version is still but an extension of the verses muted blues-lullaby guitarwork, comprising perhaps the most soulful song in Pavements repertoire (Please note that my apostrophe key is broken, so Ill be omitting those, and Ill use brackets in place of quotation marks when citing lyrics) I hold two theories as to the songs gist. The first, and more likely, is that Pueblo seems an impressionistic account of a hanging, most likely in the old west. [Spanos county] just sounds like the perfect setting for a good ol fashioned lynching, and the music itself reinforces this western atmosphere with a pained country languor far too slow to come from anywhere but out on the range. The [fall] so eagerly anticipated here, given SMs penchant for linguistic tomfoolery, could very well be literal, and would make for a far more likely spectacle than a trial alone. [Hands that bind you] could pretty easily refer to being restrained by a executioner, especially since he does it [like you want to be broken,] --at the neck, that is. [Land coming up] is the upward rush of the ground you would perceive as you fell to your death from a gallows. To [hit sand] is perhaps a malkmusism for burial. After all, one certainly cannot (he says cant in the chorus, not can) buy land while resting beneath it. If this is true, the triumphantly fluorescent burst of guitar in the chorus becomes to interpret. Maybe the death witneesed causes the speaker to exult in life, despite its sometime grossness, and to reject fear. The other is some sort of real estate struggle. The title evokes southwest native Americans, and, while I can call to mind no examples, I feel pretty sure that some of them have had their land seized by U.S. courts at some point in history (which SM majored in in college.) Ive researched a bit, and can find no county as named in the song, (if you can, please post) but it might reference Alex G. Spanos, a real-estate tycoon and philanthropist from Pavements home town of Stockton. [Gold and silver streaks] would make land worth a legal dispute, although this could refer to some hallucination induced by low oxygen in the brain. (see above) I think this is pretty unlikely, unless the first is also true.. |
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