| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[seesawdaw:11097] An interesting perspective! Think you nailed it. | |
| Young the Giant – Cough Syrup Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Cough syrup can be seen as a metaphor, sure. But I don't think it's outright "ridiculous" to assume that actual drug abuse is being referred to in this song ("fishes in the sea staring at me" especially reminds one of a drug-induced hallucination, among other visual clues). Drugs are often used as a means of coping with an unhappy, unfulfilled life and so that assumption is quite comprehensible. What is ridiculous, of course, is the contention that the song actually promotes "young audience" to do "drugs". :) |
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| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I've already stated that the song is a celebration of a transcendent love. I forgot to mention how truly orgasmic Bjork's voice is during the chorus (before she hits the denouement). An overwhelming, cathartic release... followed by the final confession of her love. |
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| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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One of Bjork's most enigmatic songs, this one. Pagan Poetry is concerned with the poetry of a relationship that pulls one out of his/her isolation and loneliness (that "darkest pit"). The narrator's lover understands her on an emotional level (who possesses the "blueprint" to her heart* and who understands the "secret code carved" on it too) and she completes him just as well as he does her (the "five fingers" on his hand "matched" and completed with her own). It's a relationship that looks like any other with nothing extraordinary on the surface ("surface simplicity") but it has an intense power... an intense, almost religious power which saves her from her despair. *Of course, "pleasures in me" isn't really an effective substitute for "heart" but I wanted to avoid the sexual connotations in that first paragraph. The sexual undertones are, of course, ever apparent in this piece and the music video contains explicit sexual imagery. How does this affect the interpretation? The "Poetry" in the title, then, mainly refers to the orgasmic highs the narrator reaches with her lover - a transcendent sexual and spiritual connection (this gives a whole new - sexual - meaning to the "code" and "blueprint" mentioned earlier... as well as "surface simplicity" and "darkest pit"). That's poetry. |
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| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| lol. That''s just a bit too... narrow-minded for me and not really representative of the intense emotions expressed in the song. I guess this is one of those instances where being too "literal" rids the song of its magic. | |
| Björk – Unravel Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The theme here is of a relationship that disintegrates when the lovers are not in physical contact. Is it because the their love isn't strong enough to stand the test of time, and is completely dependent on how close they are to each other (perhaps, suggesting that the relationship is a superficial, sexual one)? Doesn't absence make the heart go fonder? Or is this just one of the many conditions of the human experience? Memories fade, and so does the love that once glowed so brightly. Part of what I love about the song is that it's not all sadness and despair; it ends on an uplifting note. The lover has not moved on, and has not lost hope. There may be a way to reinvigorate their love after all, recapture what was once theirs (here, of course, I'm interpreting "new love" to mean something more than just sex). |
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| Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80's Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Isn't it amazing how Regina buries such serious themes - decay of society's morals, sex as a means of escape from a lonely reality - into a song that seems so superficially fun, energetic and pleasant? If there's one minor nitpick that I have with your superb interpretation, it's that the "watch each other sleep" lyric doesn't necessarily imply that the dancing folks are looking for some serious relationship... to "watch each other sleep" (as romantic as the notion seems), they usually have to go through the motions of sex, which is the primary purpose of their encounters at the "meat market". So, the bit about them wanting a more meaningful connection doesn't filter through until Regina's solo (which is, of course, my favorite part of the song). Just my two cents. |
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| Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| LOL. That's the best WORST interpretation ever. Kudos. | |
| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Pretty much this. It puzzles me how some see a love story in here. The jigsaw pieces are NOT falling into place to suggest that the narrator and his romantic interest are a match made in heaven or soul-mates or anything of the sort. He never had a shot and this song is basically an expression of his isolation and loneliness. Have you known Yorke to do any other type of song? (I'm honestly struggling to think of a song in which Radiohead's done some innocent love song; there's always an undertone that prevents any of their music from becoming outright superficially "happy"). | |
| Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A damn amazing song (but then, which Regina song isn't?). On a superficial level, in "All the Rowboats", Regina seems to be lamenting for the timeless masterpieces that are serving maximum sentences in galleries which are likened to tombs and mausoleums in the song's chorus. It's definitely an interesting perspective. However, I feel that she's also talking about artists who do not want to be ogled at and celebrated the way these masterpieces are. They want to share their art with the world but they don't want special treatment nor the celebrity status. They don't want to be cut off from the world. Their art is formed from their life experiences - from their connection with the rest of the world - and if they are placed in a metaphorical glass coffin, they'll forget how to live and therefore, they'll forget how to sing. Another undertone that keeps hitting me is how those attending these galleries - the people speaking various languages - aren't there to experience the art but to merely view them, whisper their judgment and pass on to the next item on display, almost cheapening the works of the artists who put their heart and soul into their work not to have them be judged but to be "experienced". The result is a sterile environment in which these masterpieces are trapped to the judgmental of the casual onlookers. I feel like I'm only scratching the surface here, though. There's much more to it that I can't quite articulate (the words just aren't coming) but I hope I can just click "like" on a comment where someone does articulate what I feel like I'm unable to say (not to discredit the various interesting views we have on here already, 'course). |
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