| Idiot Pilot – Strange We Should Meet Here Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song really blows me away, man. The lyrics seem to be of a transcendent nature. About the transition from life to death and then to something more. "And now that we've died [not so sure about the posted lyrics above], our souls will re-allign, a murder so divine" seems like its saying that in the now of love, death ceases to be a separating force and becomes something of a rapture. "Everything is fine." Eternal peace. Also to think about, in the beginning of the song, he says "we laughed a thousand times, we died a thousand times." Maybe he's alluding to a moments of clarity brought about by such meaningful companionship that they crush you with the heaviness of death, and then bring you beyond it to something so brilliant and beautiful. Little glimpses of heaven so sublime and transcendent that you have to metaphorically die to observe. "You remind me of someone I used to know." Seems like this is alluding to how if you died and all the piss and shit and lies that existed while you were alive were removed, you might not even recognize the person you thought you knew, even if you thought you knew them well. At least the sort of clarity that we seem to acheive at certain moments would become the rule and not the exception, and with this clarity we would see things so differently that the people we knew when we were alive would only remind us of "someone I used to know." I guess. I hope this band gets the popularity they deserve sooner or later, cause they really rock out in the best way possible. |
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| Brand New – Play Crack the Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't feel that the story of the sinking ship is a metaphor for a failing relationship. I've noticed a trend on songmeanings.net where people have tried to find the boyfriend/girlfriendy stuff in songs that are OBVIOUSLY not about that. I think it is what it is, so to speak. Not that love isn't one of its major themes. The ship wreck is ...a ship wreck. If it were alluding to something more, Brand New would have made that more obvious (think about the bands lyrical style in the context of the rest of their work). This song hits me as being profoundly moral -a lot of Brand New feels very piercing in this way (see the song "Me vs. maradona vs. Elvis"). The tongue being a rudder and steering the ship is in the Bible if I remember correctly -Proverbs, Old Testiment. And wishing that he had one more day to pay give his love and repay debts, is about the character wishing he didn't f things up with the people he loved. This isn't about him being mistreated like someone brought up earlier -I feel it's about someone who is close to death and realizing the consequences of his actions, and that he can't take anything back. I'm not sure if the last part where he starts singing in rounds is from the perspective of the one who drown, or if it's from the view of someone else who's still alive. Something to think about... Cause parts of it seem like they're a message to the person who experienced drowning. |
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| The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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At first I thought this song was abut a girl -and it very well could be. But it might just be a love song about a city. "My city's still breathing but barely it's true, through buildings gone missing like teeth." The city's getting old and 'loosing teeth' -it's a sign of decay. "The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with broken glass." The city is sort of an entity that 'watches' and 'breathes' and the broken glass often means urban demolition or an abandoned part of town. Where ever it is he has memories there, and they're smashed on the ground but still sparkling and beautiful to him. "Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me -some blankets some matches this pain in my chest, the best parts of lonely. Duct tape and soldered wire." He's struggling to remember his city, but can only remember what he took from it when he left to go on tour(s). Think about it. Blankets for sleeping, matches for smoking, duct tape for fixing anything, and soldered wire for fixing guitar wiring. "Those stains in the carpet, this drink in my hand. These strangers whose faces I know. We meet here for our dress-reheasal to say 'I wanted it this way.'" To echo what was said earlier, this sounds like playing a show. Maybe he wants to believe he 'wanted it this way' (wanted to get out of town -recall his song "I Hate Winnipeg") but he can't deny that he missed the city and feels lonely because it doesn't feel the same. "I'm trying not to wonder where you are" is a key line. He realizes that the spirit of the city is gone. And he's confused about "who's left and who's leaving." He thought he was leaving the city, but the city's meaning is gone and he's waiting ("in 4/4 time") for that feeling of home that he once knew to return as he "counts yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home." I dunno though. I might have just pulled that one out of my ass. |
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| Pedro the Lion – Secret of the Easy Yoke Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| hey brutal kids, another great book about religious disenchantment is blue like jazz, if you haven't already read it. | |
| Pedro the Lion – Secret of the Easy Yoke Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this song says everything that I just want to scream at Christians. don't get me wrong, I am one. I've just become rather disillusioned with religion. what some fail to understand is the difference between God and religion. for someone who has never realized the difference between the two, this song would totally seem about loosing faith in God. Bazan I suspect (along with myself and others) is often disgusted by the social institution of religion, but he understands that Christ exists as an eternal spiritual truth totally apart from the flawed religious institutions that us flawed human beings create. God often has little or nothing to do with what we think of as "religion." |
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| Straylight Run – It's For the Best Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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soccerguyryan, that was one of the most insightful comments I have ever heard in this forum. thank you. I totally see it now -the conflict between faith and reason. that's a really good way of looking at it, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of the thought process that inspired the song. extincthumans, calm down man. |
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