| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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THat's what album this is from. I'd love to get into a huge debate on NMH, but I really don't have the time unfortunately :'( However, I'll referance a Wordsworth poem, "Lucy Gray", which might have a few referances in Oh Comely. If you wish to talk more email at gerard_commi@msn.com. I'll reply asap. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Oh No Not Susan Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Basically to me, it seems as though. The girl is sick of her life, and the falsities associated with it. "Look at her style -- free the day", here she is sneaking away from the "lions on the Garden wall" associated with keeping her locked into her world, the symbol of her wealth, to "free the day" from the pomposity associated with meeting with the "lords and dukes of everywhere", whom she detestes: "Smiling kissing wishing that they'd go to hell". It seems as though because she is wealthhy, she is trying to be paired off with someone she doesn't love and whom doesn't love her "Oh no not me -- I wouldn't Oh no not me -- I couldn't", and it is part of the reason she loathes her wealth. Perhaps, its an indication of Jeff's growing fame and fortune and people seemingly only caring about his wealth, and not himself and wishing he were back in the days before it all. Or maybe, I'm jsut over-analysing a fantastic song. |
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| VNV Nation – Frika Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Frika in terms of Norse mythology is the Godess of peace, alternative translations give it the goddess of maternal love. It seems to be that this song, is about someone being harmed/hurt in a way which he slowly becomes increasingly angry: "Blame falls easy silently. Darkness preferable, comfort found again." The person in the song, it seems has tried to reason, tried to emplor for peace. "Frika come! Inside there is anger now. Calm precedes the rage. " Even until the end they are begging for peace, the person is distraught and whilst they know their anger is wrong, they cannot help it. Emotional and very tumultuous. It seems to be a description of hatred and anger, unfounded and unreasonable. Saying regardless of how hard people try, it seems to consume them. Thats what I get anyway. |
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