This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Your life, back in a banner year.
A blast of light. A brace of cheers.
A house of wild accolades
evaporating on an August night
I'm looking out into the sound.
I'm breathing deep. I'm turning around.
I'm saying,
"Do you want to swim out to that island?"
I'm thinking,
'Touch my wrist. It's shaking just like someday
baby when we're older.'
I'm wishing:
'Cash will be inside our kisses, someday,
maybe, baby when I'm gold.'
Your hair is thin and light
as a white forest fire in summertime.
Your throat, where it's exposed, looks like a crime,
I'll sneak-up slow and whisper quiet.
Your pretty face looks like an island
rising from a sea that's slowly drying.
When I'm saying,
"Do you want to sail out in the silence?"
I'm asking,
"Will you come over here and do me violence?"
Press your ear up to my wrist
the blood is racing some way, going wherever,
and I'm saying,
"Will you stand up tall and be my shelter?"
How will we go, what do you think?
Into the dust? Into the drink?
You slipped your fears into my head,
some midnight freeway ride along with Jennifer.
Hotels, jails, hospital details.
The highway hugs the water.
I had to cross a field of screaming fire
to see the moonlight on the river.
I'm saying,
"Do you want to come and make me shiver?"
I'm thinking,
'Squeeze my arm and feel it pull away like someday,
baby, when we differ.'
I'll tell you what I didn't say.
I'll tell you about the way I really miss him.
You tell them what you want to tell them.
Tell them about the way you really loved her.
And we'll shake it, shake it,
shake it off, and take another.
Because no one
is going to stop me from loving my brother,
not even my brother.
A blast of light. A brace of cheers.
A house of wild accolades
evaporating on an August night
I'm looking out into the sound.
I'm breathing deep. I'm turning around.
I'm saying,
"Do you want to swim out to that island?"
I'm thinking,
'Touch my wrist. It's shaking just like someday
baby when we're older.'
I'm wishing:
'Cash will be inside our kisses, someday,
maybe, baby when I'm gold.'
Your hair is thin and light
as a white forest fire in summertime.
Your throat, where it's exposed, looks like a crime,
I'll sneak-up slow and whisper quiet.
Your pretty face looks like an island
rising from a sea that's slowly drying.
When I'm saying,
"Do you want to sail out in the silence?"
I'm asking,
"Will you come over here and do me violence?"
Press your ear up to my wrist
the blood is racing some way, going wherever,
and I'm saying,
"Will you stand up tall and be my shelter?"
How will we go, what do you think?
Into the dust? Into the drink?
You slipped your fears into my head,
some midnight freeway ride along with Jennifer.
Hotels, jails, hospital details.
The highway hugs the water.
I had to cross a field of screaming fire
to see the moonlight on the river.
I'm saying,
"Do you want to come and make me shiver?"
I'm thinking,
'Squeeze my arm and feel it pull away like someday,
baby, when we differ.'
I'll tell you what I didn't say.
I'll tell you about the way I really miss him.
You tell them what you want to tell them.
Tell them about the way you really loved her.
And we'll shake it, shake it,
shake it off, and take another.
Because no one
is going to stop me from loving my brother,
not even my brother.
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Gorgeous. Makes my heart hurt.
Anyone else think this song is in line with "a Favor" and "It was My Season"?
@morningdewdew <br /> <br /> I specifically came to this page to look for this theory after hearing this song for the first time tonight. I definitely think it's possible, given that he never refers to the other person with a female pronoun.<br /> <br /> I think the other person is the one in love with a girl (possible Jennifer?): "Tell them about the way you really loved her."<br /> <br /> I think brother in this song is not referring to a sibling, but to a close friend.
This song is so fucking beautiful. My favorite from the new album. Unlike many Okkervil songs though, I don't think there's any hidden, deep meaning to this one. To me it is a love song, plain and simple, although perhaps you could say it is about love in several different senses (i.e., romantic, familial, etc.) and therefore has somewhat of a deeper meaning on that level. While I do think it's just a love song though, I must stress that I don't mean that as a slight at all - it is a spectacular song. :-)
I feel like its a past love song, how he put so much emphasis on their relationship . . . At first it comes off as a love song but as it progresses he admits things going slightly wrong (like baby someday when we differ) and by the end he looks at how he thinks she feels (I'll tell them how I really miss him) and he says how he feels (How I really loved her). But the reason they broke up, she didn't like his brother and he couldn't handle the fact that she tried to turn him against his brother (no one, no one is gonna make me stop loving my brother, not even my brother) so he won't try to work it out.
I think references to "she" and "Jennifer" are to the girl and references of "him" are to the brother. It sounds like they both fell for the same girl. In the end he says they should, "Shake it off" and "find another", because he really "misses him."
However, the brother doesn't make the same decision ...
Is this not about the memoir by Swofford?