| of Montreal – Faberge Falls for Shuggie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first stanza references Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Siddhartha, who is seeking enlightenment, gets caught up in a life of physical pleasures and satisfaction of the senses. He grows rich and reckless, but loses an essential part of him, a strongly guided strength of spirit. He has a dream in which he finds a beautiful bird, belonging to his lover, dead outside of its golden cage and he throws it out the window. Later, Siddhartha talks about the bird in his chest as the guiding voice within him, as well as his overall sense of living his life with a real sense of purpose, to the fullest extent. So, not really sure exactly how that relates to the song as a whole, but i love Barnes's literary references. Anybody wanna guess at the larger significance? |
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