| Counting Crows – Anna Begins Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"Anna begins" is a first person perspective on a friends with benefits relationship. It starts at the end of a conversation with a friend who argues that it's "All or nothing" (you are in love or you're not) but alternates between recollection of the dialogue with the friend and an intimate moment with Anna. The narrator doesn't commit to relationships - he covers up some sort of emptiness within himself with sexual relationships, establishing an identity as someone who woman find attractive (wrap her up in a package of lies, send her off to a cocount island). "Make an excpetion," pleads his friend - this is actually a relationship that has potential and could actually have some sort of emotional substance. These thoughts about love have an impact on the narrator - it comes up in conversation with Anna - she says they should think about the consequences, but there's also a raw sexual chemistry between them, and it distracts from an serious conversation (can't stop touching her), and it leads to sex, with climax at "And this time, when kindness falls like rain, it washes her away". (Listen to the tempo of the music right here - it's totally climactic). Anna changes her mind because she's caught up in the heat of the moment - she's focused on the sexual relationship and they aren't having the serious conversation about a sustained emotional relationship. After the chorus, the narrator is trying to retain his prior identity - he has done this so many times before and doesn't need nor want a relationship that is more than physical. He's done it in the past by treating women as objects - he thinks he should do the same here (snap her up in a butterfly net, pin her down in a photograph album) - treat her a pretty thing, something added to a collection of women whom he's bedded. And just as he thinks he is starting to believe he can do this... second climax, but this one is an emotional one and only on the part of the narrator who is awash in emotion for Anna. The line everyone raves about "everytime she sneezes, I believe it's love" has obviously many layers of meaning. One is that it's referring to her climaxing when they get intimate - that moments like these he believes that it's more than sex - it's actually love. Another layer of meaning is the involuntary things that Anna does - little things which don't have any hint of love are interpreted as love because the narrator is so awash with feeling for Anna. Finally, there's the another layer of meaning - little things, little quirks, are noticed and appreciated by the narrator. For the rest of the song, the narrator is trying to reconcile these feelings - undoubtedly confusing and intertwined, and he's not emotionally equipped to handle this developing aspect of their relationship. |
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| Glen Phillips – Easier Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is such a great song, and probably needs no explanation. I don't know much about Glen's personal life, but it sounds like it's about his relationship with his wife - he feels undeserving and in some way inferior, and those feelings are going to inveitably lead to losing everything, though he wants nothing more than to cling to it. |
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