| Conor Oberst – Breezy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I really like the line where he says "spend another night inside this rented mansion." To me it not only hints at the splendor and beauty of life (the mansion), but also the fleeting impermanence our lives (rented). I think there's a bible verse that goes something to the effect of: There are many rooms in my fathers mansion. It's open to interpretation, but I look at life as like a giant mansion and we're just exploring it from room to room as we go through it all. It's funny, my last post on here was 6 years ago about another song that Conor wrote. My life has changed so much since then, but some things will always be the same. I think this beautiful music is a testament to that. And art in general. And beautiful women. Can't forget the ladies ;-) | |
| Bright Eyes – Loose Leaves Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think there's a play on words in the first line: "The story is in the soil Loose leaves cover the ground" I know the song title is loose leaves, but I think it can be interpreted as "loose leafs," meaning notebook paper. Especially since he talks about a "story" that "No one reads." Maybe I'm just reading into it too much. The next verse blows me away when he says: "So I could scatter all my notebooks On the prep school lawn" I don't even wanna try to interpret it, but I just think it's really profound how many patterns and ideas pop out of Conor's lyrics. If your comparing movie's to music, I think it's fair to say that listening to his lyrics is like watching one of those discovery channel documentaries about space except this time you're watching it at a huge 3D IMAX type of movie theater. When he gets going it's like watching shooting stars leap from the screen and dissolve into my mind. The lyrics have a lot of symmetry in them, kinda like the weird symmetry that's present in life. You know, the type of stuff you see out of the corner of your eye but can't quite put your finger on. He should be nominated to be a poet laureate or something. I'll be damned if any poem ever hit me right square in the head like Conor's lyrics do. This lyrics aren't catchy and saturated like the musical equivalent of fast-food. They are really wholesome and nutritious. Sweet as honey in their honesty too. I swear, if Buddhist's studied his albums, they would all agree that he is a Bodhisattva. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Don't Burn the Pig Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Funny thing, I think I seen where Dave got the inspiration for this. He said it was from watching a program where pigs were burned to test their pain tolernace. I seen the actual program one night late at night on TV. It is really disturbing and it stirs your emotions watching it. They just take a blow torch and point it at pigs. I was really angry and thought it was such a stupid experiment. Let the pigs be! What a waste. How would you like it if someone performed such a test on you Mr. Cruel-blowtorch-carrying-man? I can see how Dave was inspired to write a song about it cause it was years ago that I'd seen it and it still sticks in my head. The world needs more compassion in it if such thoughtless and cruel acts are being performed. |
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| Bright Eyes – At the Bottom of Everything Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is about eternal return, or eternal recurrence, or whatever you want to call it -- the infinite finite. The idea itself is as old as the pyramids in egypt, since this is where it originated, or so says history. Nietzsche coined the term and developed the idea, still it's not widely known and many people are likely to stumble upon it themselves simply by looking at all the cause and effect relationships that happen around them in this life. To sum up the idea, here's a quote from Nietzsche: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything immeasurably small or great in your life must return to you-all in the same succession and sequence-even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over and over, and you with it, a grain of dust." In light of that, it makes perfect sense that she is going to her own birthday party. After death we cease to perceive time, so the amount of time between her dying and the universe ultimately coming to, how do I say this, not necessarily an "end" but more of a recycling event, anyway this amount of time is unnoticable and, for all intensive purposes, instantaneous for her. I agree with the above post about the nurturing nature of mother nature and the harsh reality of father time -- we will all die in do time. The eternal return idea is also evident in the lines "we must look into a crystal ball and only see the past." The past is the future. There's alot going on in this song and I don't want to take up to much space going over everything, but I just wanted everybody to wake up to that idea, or at least kick it around a little in your heads. It's not just a philosophical idea, one of the possible conclusions that string theory is leaning towards is that as matter disintegrates in the universe, the brane on which our universe is will be "pulled" until it collides with another brane and this will be the starting event for what is known as the big bang. Also, it's not a bad idea, considering all the blood shed that's happening in the world in the name of religion. There's one world, and one, you know, existence -- one "way." So I don't know how people can go around believing that their "way" is the correct way, but I guess that's the way it is. Life is a merry-go-round kids. Enjoy. peace. |
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| Mazzy Star – Look On Down From The Bridge Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song has a special meaning to me. It's the song played in the soprano's 1st season at Jackie Aprile's funeral. I used to watch that show every Sunday with a friend in college. We grew close, then we moved in together. It went downhill. Graduated and moved back home, I had some things to return to her, so I mailed them out and I put a copy of this song on a CD and sent it too. I never knew such a simple two syllable word as "goodbye" could be so hard to say. How could I say goodbye? How could I say goodbye? Goodbye. |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I heard that this song was about an LSD flashback. When that verse "woke up, got out . . ." plays it kinda makes sense, cause he's just going through the normal day to day routine and then "somebody spoke and [he] went into a dream." There his mind just kinda trips out. And that big symphonic culmination of noise really nails the crazyness of tripping. When it starts up, you're just like 'something ain't right here' and then it builds and builds with all these sounds growing on each other and speeding up and getting louder and more intense, and it's just like, damn, this is crazy. You know? Holy Sh*t!!! I just realized Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is also on that album. So it is a flashback!!! This is ground breaking stuff!!! | |
| Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think this song is about hard-core drug addiction. Probably heroin. "Two jumps in a week" means the person is getting high more frequently and has shot up twice that week. He thinks it's clever because he hasn't seen the downfall yet, but maybe he's heard of it and it doesn't seem to be happening to him yet, so he think's he's clever. Plus, he probably thinks he's being clever the way he spaces the time between "jumps" so as to not become an addict. Almost like saying, I'll shoot up on monday, but then I'll give my body a rest for a few days and wait till thursday before I do it again.The high from analgesics derived from opium (such as heroin) often resembles a sense of flying. I was thinking that the motorcycle was a metaphor for the drug, but I can see it as a metaphor for the human body, and here he's abusing his body by doing stunts and using it to escape. So the motorcycle is more like his body on drugs. "watching all the ground beneath you drop" - another jump. It's kind of beautiful going up, and there's a sense of escaping from the world. Maybe even standing out. "kill yourself for recognition. Kill yourself to never ever stop." - It's true, if you go down this path you'll be like a dog chasing it's tail. And it's a downward spiral. So you'll kill yourself to never stop, cause you are killing yourself, in a beautiful, slow kinda way that gets worse. I think the life expectancy for hard-core users is 7 years. "You broke another mirror" - well, break a mirror and its 7 years bad luck. This line fits well with the whole metaphor and also signals the beginning of the downfall - "you're turning into something you are not." If you take the metaphor more literally, breaking the mirror could also mean he was having problems shooting up, like he broke a vein or something. Also he may have just been a thrill seeker before, or someone using lightly, but he's becoming an addict, so he's turning into something he wasn't. I think the next verse basically explores the downfall more. "drying up in. . ." - he's losing interest in the world as his world revolves more and more around the drug. And it's taking a toll on him as all his "insides fall to pieces." When drugs are eliminated from the system, they are metabolised by the liver and kidneys. Your normal "fun" drugs don't have such a drastic effect, but hard drugs and pain medication can take a toll on the body. Just look on the back of a bottle of tylenol: there's a warning about liver disease. Tylenol is light on the system compared to opiates and opiods. Morphine is generally given to accident victims, surgery patients, or terminal patients in the last stage of life (think cancer). Heroin is pretty much the same as morphine, some say it produces more "euphoric" effects, but it's effects on the vital organs are the same. And you can ask any doc, prolonged use of morphine will kill you. Addicts typically take more and more. So his insides falling to pieces can be taken literally. Although it could also mean his interests and goals and values and stuff. . .if you wanna be figurative. "You just sit there wishing you could still make love" - I take it he's gotten sick and everyone's trying to get him off the drugs, but that's all that he wants to do. For him it's the best thing, probably like most people consider making love, and he just wants to keep on doing it. He's a hard-core addict. "there the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out" - His world is getting high, and he's got it all figured out. That's what his world revolves around. Obviously people are turning on him. There were probably people who "hated" him and began keeping there distance when they seen him becoming more and more of a junkie. Then there are people who "hate" him, or at least he thinks so, these people probably just want to keep him off the sauce, but they are probably genuinly concerned for his welfare, but it doesn't matter to him, he sees them as hating him cause he's got his world figured out and they are in opposition of his views. "there the ones who'll spit at you" - you're kinda an outcast when you're that far gone. "don't leave me high, don't leave me dry" - Can't live with it, can't live without it. This is a sad song, but it's so beautiful. | |
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