| 10,000 Maniacs – Dust Bowl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't think that the second verse necessarily referring to a mother living in the Dust Bowl era -- it seems perfectly possible to me that a mother at this point in time could be singing the same thing. The whole song represents the sentiments that TheSneakyWaffle says are expressed in the third verse (and winning the lottery doesn't yell "all eras" to me, but whatever). It's a gorgeous song -- all of the salient social messages expressed on Blind Man's Zoo deserve more attention than they get. | |
| Dispatch – Gone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this is gorgeous. to me, it seems to be about taking things for granted. and not realizing what you have. and, in a way, making things more complicated than they really are (ie, do you remember when you were a boy, etc) as you get older. the line "i should stand up for them but i am silent until the end" kind of lends itself to show that the narrator realizes that he's not doing all that he could. i don't know. there's a lot here. i'm interseted to see what other people think, though. the song just generally seems nostalgic. and the narrator seems to be saying that everyone's giving up on everyone else too easily. persist. give people chances. no one does that anymore, maybe. |
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| Arcade Fire – Haiti Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"the song is about the turmoil haiti went through to be the wonderful country it is toda, if thats even true (i've never been)." it's definitely not wonderful. the people might be, but the civil strife currently is terrible. |
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| RJD2 – Good Times Roll Pt.2 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| THIS IS SO GOOD. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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the song seems apocalyptic to me as well. "where we see the universe, i see the fire, i see the end." armageddon, anyone? seven is a perfect number, used in the bible often. emmanuel was jesus, but it's interesting that sufjan wrote that jesus divides. perhaps, like in casimir pulaski day, he's pointing out the faults of religion. that really, it's just divided all of us. that could be completely off, though. could also be that jesus divides those who are truly faithful to him from those who aren't. i could be completely off in trying to see a frustration with god in sufjan's music. he talks of building something for emmanuel and having it be torn down by "the powers of the earth". like blakehawbaker said, i see the mother as the earth and the father as god, and god protects us from these earthly powers. lastly, i find it interesting that a major chord is struck (literally) when "still i go to the deepest grave" is sung. showing man's weakness next to god, but the happiness can be that after death one goes to heaven to be with god. (very religious, and i'm not really at all, but sufjan is and i like that a religious spin can be put on his music.) |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i love that sufjan can make his music so religious, yet not have it only be happy. in so many of his songs he seems to get frustrated with god, and it's so so nice to hear that aggrevation. no one else seems to write about that. the music is just wonderful, as well. | |
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