| Ten Foot Pole – Still Knee Deep Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I tried to forget I tried to move on I'm trying to make a change so my son won't sing this song |
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| Sufjan Stevens – I Want to Be Well Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I read it in two inclusive ways: spiritual and physical, as an expression of being banished from the ordinary world where you've lived your life and others live theirs, and realizing you can't be a part of it anymore. You can't find understanding in others who still live that life where they can be extraordinary or ordinary while you're in a place where you can't be either. Former peers can show empathy but can't feel it not knowing what you're going through, and they probably want nothing to do with such desolation, even though to your new eyes it surrounds everyone watching and waiting and always has. You're alone without rest or peace and the only good is redemption or recovery, and failing that, death. The rest is suffering. Not ready to accept a life diminished to that difference, you feel responsible. What's wrong is inside you but even responsibility no longer matters. God/nature, who brought you into existence, has left you suffering and weak and the world they created for you has turned on you. Without human understanding and without material hope, it's between you and a reality apparently bent on your destruction, on ridding itself of you--God/nature's reality, how could either let it happen? With diminished health and diminished spirit, having lived wrongly or rightly, you've been abandoned by the world and its creator to the mercy of illness (spiritual or physical). And with whatever strength and power left within you, you're determined you will survive. The song goes from expressing isolation, guilt and distance from normal living to self-examination, suffering and fear and resolving in reconciliation with fate in a cruel world and finally in unprincipled and desperate determination to overcome. I actually thought the general attitude of the song reminded me of Laissez Faire by Loney Dear -- in spirit; his is obviously not so elaborately expressed. |
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| Thursday – Circuits of Fever Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What is he screaming when it goes in and out? | |
| Phoenix – Lisztomania Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Maybe it doesn't really mean anything. Maybe it's just a poorly written song. Maybe the incoherence of the many different interpretations posted here alone reflects the many different meanings it could have had were it well-written, and attests to the fact that it is not. Just a thought. | |
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