| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Ohhhh, and Lotus_Blossom.... Cowboy Bebop rocks! But I guess if you're talking about the ones that are dubbed in english, then you're right, they are terrible. If you want to truely appreciate Bebop, learn japanese, or atleast watch the subtitled ones. Off topic, but it had to be said. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think the only useful thing my English teacher ever taught me, when I was doing poetry in high-school, was that after the poet has made his work public, it's meaning is no longer up to him. Whoever reads it creates the meaning - and the by-product of that is the fact that the piece is going to mean something different to everyone. The lyrics are going to have different connotations for everyone, and it's possible that Mangum is deliberately vague when it comes to explaining the meanings to his songs for this reason. In the words of one of my favourite comedians, Dennis Miller, “The only thing separating holy writ from complete bullshit is your perspective. It’s your only weapon, keep the safety off” |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – My Dreamgirl Don't Exist Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think the last line on the 2nd verse should read "instead it stands ablase". Although, (and i'm sure it's party psychosomatic), listening to it after reading these lyrics, it's hard to say. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Jeff Mangum always took me to have the same relationship with his lyrics as Lou Reed. Reed, when asked what one of his songs meant, would often shrug and say, "I dunno..." | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I like where you went with the communism representing sharing everything... the idea of a whore being used by everything... not so much. To me, the communist daughter represents someone of communistic tendencies (one who shares everything) existing in a democratic society (partly represented by the mountain tops). The seamen that stains the mountain tops represents greed, lust, desire (concepts of a capitalistic society). I’d imagine the artist doesn’t feel this greed is a good thing – otherwise he’d have used less graphic, gory images than seamen. This idea of the folly of greed Vs the goodness of sharing everything can also be seen when the artist sings of the sweet communist daughter “standing in the sea-weed water”. The water again represents the idea of sharing everything as pure, the fact that it is seaweed water shows that the pure ideology is stained by the “sea-weed”, which is again representative of greed. In the lines, “And wanting something warm and moving, Bends towards herself the soothing, Proves that she must still exist”, girl is searching for something good and wholesome in this society of capitalistic greed. “She turns towards herself for soothing” – she turns towards like-minded people, they share their troubles and hardships, and from the catharsis effect inherent in sharing, prove that her ideology still exists, and still has a place in a society dominated by an ideology of “greed is good”. Anyways, that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong… I wrote this at 4am on the late, late shift at work… /Edit Another interesting point I just considered, if you listen to the song, all the lyrics are sung in 2 or 3 breaths (it’s actually really hard to sing if you’ve ever tried). So the song is very flowing. Could this somehow be representative the nature of our society today – never stopping, always moving and changing. I’m not sure about this… kinda thin. |
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