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| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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^^I think that may be reading a bit much into it, as song's that Colin has written about mothers aren't necessarily reflections on his mother. His writing style is rarely ever autobiographical, it's mostly story telling.
That said...the engine driver in question is experiencing a feeling that I think five_to_one described best. Hopelessness, but at the same time, something deep inside him ("my bones") just won't let go, no matter what he does to try to get rid of her ("I've written pages upon pages"). |
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| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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If you see the video, it becomes even clearer that this song isn't anti-war so much as commentary, or even satire, on America's fuck-what-they-think attitude.
@Louie: You said "I'm proud to live in a country that does what it thinks is best, instead of kneeling to other countries agendas." I suppose that would make everybody else pussies right? Perhaps standing up for what you believe in doesn't involve forcing everybody else to agree. |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Thom said himself it's about (or at least based off of) the idea that time is a force, and its behavior is cyclical. I guess that idea is reflected through the back and forth chord progression on the piano, and the repetition of verses and choruses.
Here's a quote from Thom: "That song literally took five minutes to write, but yet it came from all these mad places. [It's] something I never thought I could actually get across in a song and lyrically. [But I] managed it and that was really, really tough. [Physicist] Stephen Hawking talks about the theory that time is another force. It's [a] fourth dimension and [he talks about] the idea that time is completely cyclical, it's always doing this [spins finger]. It's a factor, like gravity. It's something that I found in Buddhism as well. That's what "Pyramid Song" is about, the fact that everything is going in circles." |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm pretty sure it's environmental. "Ice age coming", "women and children first", "this is really happening", "let me hear both sides"...definitely global warming.
The "here I'm allowed everything all of the time" part confuses me though. The only meaning I could come up with was a child-like indifference to the situation, as in "nothing's wrong with my car, I'll do what I want, drive it all the time, etc.". |
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| Radiohead – Morning Bell/Amnesiac Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This version is so much better than the Kid A version. The electronic sound (on Kid A) makes it bland, but in this version...the way it kind of drudges through the beginning to the absolutely beautiful, almost ethereal sounding end. |
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