| The Decemberists – Lake Song Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| My favorite from the new album. It elicits such a sense of yearning in me. Love it. | |
| The Decemberists – Oceanside Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I'm sure this is completely wrong, but I always imagine this song from the point of view of a shark watching a girl reclining on a boat and wishing should fall overboard so he could have a snack. :) | |
| Tom Waits – Pony Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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[I agree with some of your thoughts dogbox, but think you're a little off on some others.] I've seen it all boys I've been all over Been everywhere in the Whole wide world I rode the high line With old blind Darby I danced real slow With Ida Jane [Agree that this is a man looking back on his life. Strikes the tone of an older man about to give advice to a younger person that reminds him of himself in his own younger days.] I was full of wonder When I left Murfreesboro Now I am full of hollow On Maxwell street... [I disagree this is about him being shot. I think he's saying when he left home he was full of hopes and dreams, but know he's empty inside, hopeless and forlorn.] And I hope my Pony I hope my Pony I hope my Pony Knows the way back home [This to me is another way of saying you can't ever go home again. He wants to return to those innocent days of his youth, but he's done and seen so many bad things he doesn't know how to get his innocence back. I see the pony as giving himself up to fate or God. He hopes that they'll be able to somehow lead him to a place where he'll be able to live like he imagined life would be like in his youth] I walked from Natcher To Hushpukena I built a fire by the side Of the road I worked for nothin in a Belzoni saw mill. I caught a Blind out on the B and O Talullah's friendly Belzoni ain't so A 44'll get you 99 [I agree that the last line means a 44 magnum will get you 99 years in jail. I disagree that it was necessarily over a love triangle. I think this verse is about his life after leaving home. He roughed it a little bit, then ended up getting a job at a sawmill. Whether the towns name or the sawmills owners name was Belzoni I don't know. Either way they ended up ripping him off. He then committed some sort of crime involving a 44 magnum. My guess would be killing the Saw Mill owner or manager. He then hopped the B and O railroad out of town.] (chorus) I run my race with burnt face Jake Gave him a Manzanita cross I lived on nothin But dreams and train smoke Somehow my watch and chain Got lost. I wish I was home in Evelyn's Kitchen With old Gyp curled around my feet [He went on the run with another guy named burnt face Jake who died along the way. No details how, but he buried him and made a cross for his grave out of a Manzanita evergreen. At this point his life was spent constantly on the run. I think the pocket watch is an allusion to his life (time) and that he feels he "lost" or "wasted" it. Evelyn's kitchen and Gyp are warm memories of his youth and he wishes he could feel that way again.] (Chorus) |
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