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| Lamb – The Spectacle Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song also ties in with the lyrics of "Wonder" which is also about an atheistic idea, namely that the miracle of this world can be marvelled without religiousness, that humility before creation does not require the presumption a creator. |
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| Lamb – The Spectacle Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song to me laments (beautifully) how humans surrender to delusions, specifically religion.
While religions and their texts and stories are pure fiction, we yearn for them to be true with such fervour, that we choose to forget that they are our own invention (`forgetting they put it there'), and take it to be devine revelation instead (`something that fell from the sky'). |
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| Oceansize – Legal Teens Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Vennart about the song (source: interview on the Feed to Feed DVD)
"It's just about being sort of celebrating sort of being young and scared at being at school and scared at being [...] You're just scared of failing all the time. [...] I have still nightmares about that I'm still at school and I'm still worrying about the same stupid shit that I was when I was 13. [...] So, and waking up feels great and knowing that I don't have to think like that anymore. [...] It's just something I think about a lot for some reason." |
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| British Theatre – Capra Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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This is not a strong interpretation, but the lyrics always make me think of Donald Trump or maybe (US) politics in general. |
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| British Theatre – Capra Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[juan105954:20682] You're most welcome! :-) I'm not a native English speaker myself so there are probably some mistakes in there. In fact I just fixed some. |
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| Elliott Smith – New Disaster Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This song should come with a warning. This song is almost too good, it so focussed in its expression that at times it pierces me like an arrow.
In my interpretation (which is much more specific than for most Elliott Smith songs) this is a lamento, accusing someone for being too callow to realise that life is not all about getting attention from people around you. It is addressed to a person (say a girl) of great beauty and charisma, who leaves a strong impression with everyone she gets in touch with ("the ghost of your smile"). Everyone adores her, she is forgiven any flaws in her character that she might have (just like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray). But this constant adoration and affection from others is stunting her growth as a person. It has made life always easy for her, and so she defines herself through her appearance and the effect she has on others. She fails to rise above that and do what she should be doing, that is develop her character and be cautious with her charm ("tame her master"). Instead she even keeps flirting with everyone ("blow through the coals") continuing to put people under her spell, going through life leaving victims behind wherever she goes. If you look at her and her behaviour, eventually you will see how shallow a person she really is "'til everyone knows that your smile is just a ghost"
I don't think that her behaviour is born out of malice and that she is causing pain deliberately. After all it doesn't even take more than a smile from her to crush someone ("the ghost of your smile was seen on a body in a park"). She herself is probably unhappy and doesn't really know what she is looking for in life ("I wonder what it is you're after"). I figure, if you have such charisma it is very difficult make your life about something else.
The last verse ("Waiting to start...") I read as a futile warning to someone coming into her life. This is how it goes with her, after it starts, you see the light, but ultimately it's just darkness. I told you, man, I told you...
Let me mention that my interpretation is based on an experience I had with a girl who I (once?) was very fond of. Just thinking about her still leaves a lump in my throat, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one. Thinking of her smile is just as much pleasing as it is freezing. Should I maybe let her read this? :-) |
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