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| Kevin Hearn – Knots Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Interesting song about a relationship. I especially like the line "I hold the target, you throw the darts". |
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| Elliott Smith – I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure It Out Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song reminds me of a quote from the "Inside the Actor's Studio" interview with Anthony Hopkins. When asked what his favorite swear word was, he answered "Fuck." He told the audience a story about asking a priest once what, in his opinion, was the quickest and most effective prayer. The priest told him "fuck it," because in so relinquishing responsibility for things you can't possibly influence, you admit that there is something larger than yourself (not necessarily religious, Anthony Hopkins certainly wasn't) that makes it impossible for you to insinuate yourself everywhere and be in control of every possible moment or passing thought that occurs outside yourself. Elliott seems to espouse almost jokingly about his lover's mind or the landscape of emotions between them being like "some wild last frontier," and I don't often hear him admitting that he doesn't understand feels okay about it very often, so, to me, this is his happiest song. Apart from "Happiness," of course. |
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| Elliott Smith – I Figured You Out Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"I think this song is like this guy who's on tour with this girl who's got record labels interested in her, and he's the opening act, and all the record people aren't interested in him, they just buy him drinks. And maybe the song is about the girl." Mary Lou said this before she sang this song in February of 2002. I think it means Elliott Smith had a crush on Mary Lou, for a little while, at least, and she wouldn't pay him any attention so he wrote this song about her. The most interesting thing is that he would actually SHOW it to her in spite of his personal feelings about the Eagles and her. Quite revealing. |
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