| The Mountain Goats – Liza Forever Minnelli Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think that the song is a pretty straightforward take on feeling like you're never going to get away from the town you grew up in. "There's the part you've braced yourself against, and then there's the other part." You can prepare yourself for some of the bad things that happen in your life, but then you'll get blindsided by something else when you least expect it. And if the place you grew up in is California, of course you're going to be thoroughly sick of Hotel California being mentioned every time you think about leaving. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Deuteronomy 2:10 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is the song you'd write when you decide you aren't going to have children. | |
| Lyle Lovett – Here I Am Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The last verse cracks me up every time. It's just his urgent, intense delivery. Right up until the last line. :D | |
| The Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Every moment leads toward its own sad end" is my favorite line. I like that this song stands on its own, but also could be a scene from a novel. Sax Rohmer was the author of the Fu Manchu books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer). While I haven't read them, this scene certainly seems like it could fit in. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Up the Wolves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure the line is "our mother has been absent". Singular, not plural. I've always seen this one as John and his sister, left to their own devices in the "Rome" of his stepfather's house, and the resentment they must have felt towards their mother for not protecting them from him. "there'll always be a few things maybe several things that you're gonna find really difficult to forgive" |
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| The Mountain Goats – Twin Human Highway Flares Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song for me perfectly captures the way you feel about a first love when you're no longer with them, but you cherish the memories you have. | |
| R.E.M. – Hope Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song was kind of my theme song when I was fairly sick a few years ago. For me, it sort of captured that yearning to be a part of normal life again. "You want to go out Friday and you want to go forever." I also felt like the lyrics about how "you want to cross your dna with something reptile" expressed a desire to be safe from hurt. And there are a lot of lyrics about wanting to trust in something, but constantly questioning it, which were all emotions that resonated for me at the time. Anyway, that was just why the song touched a chord for me personally. I always wondered if maybe I was misinterpreting it, though, and seeing a hopeful message when Stipe was really saying something mocking about people who are obsessed with plastic surgery and celebrity. (The lyrics that lean to this interpretation are the lines about "you hope that we are with you / and you hope you're recognized" and the second verse about some mysterious "procedure".) Ah well, I choose to believe it's a hopeful song. :) |
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| Iron & Wine – Woman King Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I've been pondering the meaning of this one a lot since I heard it, and I still have no idea. But it evokes an image of great power for some reason. Very apocalyptic somehow. | |
| Iron & Wine – Teeth in the Grass Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I find it a little bit creepy, though. Do the teeth in the grass represent death? I know that dreams about teeth falling out are common. Does this tie into dream interpretation in some way? | |
| Iron & Wine – Free Until They Cut Me Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me it definitely sounds like it's speaking from the point of view of a black man in the South who's about to be murdered by a lynch mob for associating with a white woman. His father blames him, saying if he had followed the "should've, could've, would've" restrictions of the white men and stayed away from the woman, he wouldn't have had to die. The son, however, asserts his humanity, saying that even though he will be killed, he will swing "free until they cut me down". This is a beautiful song and recalled to my mind the lyrics from Arrested Development's song Tennessee, where the singer goes to the South and climbs "the trees my forefathers hung from". |
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