| The Head and the Heart – Lost In My Mind Lyrics | 8 years ago |
|
I think it's a song from a dead brother to a surviving one: "Put your dreams away for now, I won't see you for some time" -- Establishing the distance between them, physical and temporal. "Oh my brother / Your wisdom is older than me / Oh my brother / Don't you worry 'bout me" -- Establishing that his brother is older or at least longer-lived than he ever was, and that he is past any mortal concern. Then he goes on to ask his brother about his activities in life, most of which are fairly straightforward activities for a man: Bricklaying, engine repair, mortaring a bridge. "Are your hands getting filled" could imply plenty of things: By a beloved woman, or financially, or simply keeping oneself busy. "Won't you tell me my brother / 'Cause there are stars up above" -- His brother in paradise, or heaven, somewhere he can see the night stars and take pleasure in their presence. "We can start moving forward" -- They can both start moving forward from the tragedy of his own death. |
|
| First Aid Kit – I Found a Way Lyrics | 9 years ago |
|
It's a beautiful song about a good love shared between two bad (or at least flawed) people. It's the song about a woman who loves a bad man, one whose nature inherently excites her, and she identifies with in turn: (by midnight time I could not see - if I were you or you were me / give me your love, give me your gun, and you traced us back to where we begun). There's clearly an element of danger to their relationship, and one of loving menace. Whoever she loves, he's a gun-carrying man with a checkered past, but she has her own checkered past too: (There's a heavy load upon our backs - Of things we carry from the past). She's a woman who found herself seeking oblivion, a release from her history, nature, and guilt: (as I was looking for a way - to disappear), and who finds that within her good love to an otherwise bad man, there's something redemptive to be found between them. (and so the morning came and swept the night away / I found a way I found a way, to reappear). Her loyalty (I'll follow you, where you'll go, Yes I'll be there, just so you know) is reciprocated: (my guilt-filled mind, it tried to run, but you chased us back, to where we'd begun). |
|
| Corb Lund – Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier Lyrics | 11 years ago |
|
This is a very information-dense song! Corb really did a lot of research on this song to bring it all together. Here's what I've got: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_movement (I's a White Guard...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_(Russia) (I's a Red Guard...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution (I's a Tsar's old palace horse guard, when Romanov was murdered in the night) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerthorpe_tragedy (In Mayerthorpe she cried...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_Raid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum (Dostum's Northern Alliance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance (Dostum's Northern Alliance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Krojanty (Polish lancers charging german tanks) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ross_(British_Army_officer) (saw Ross shot down) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812 (the night we burned the white house down) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_York (the sack of York) |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.