| Joanna Newsom – Flying a Kite Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| *Sorry, missed out the name of the poem, its called Comus. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Flying a Kite Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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OK, I'm going to delve *deep* into protentiousness now. But I think she is alluding to Milton's poem/masque, which is about the loss of innocense/chastity. In the poem a girl gets lost in the forest and is tempted by the spirit Comus to drink a cup of wine (symbolising sex etc...) - but she refuses at the last minute. Milton: "Deep skill'd in all his mothers witcheries, And here to every thirsty wanderer, By sly enticement gives his banefull cup, With many murmurs mixt, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks, And the inglorious likenes of a beast." Joanna: "The pungent pines The verdant veils The vapid vines And the thousand purple cups of wine The tearing teeth and the four full tines The crumpling feast and the dawdling dine." Just a thought... |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Little Birds Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Going back to mrwuggs' intepretation of two headed boy pt 2, I always imagined the "brains fell out through your teeth" line to be a wierd and characterstically wonderful metaphor for speaking, rather than anything physical. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think each stanza might have to be taken seperately, but basically this seems to be a song about sex. The first paragraph is perhaps about the nicer side of sex. A lot of it seems to be about someone loosing their virginity: "Oh comely I will be with you when you lose your breath" (and isnt it amazing the way he pronounces breath? it sounds like it could be anything) The second paragraph is about the ugliness of sex. The imagery is natural and mechanic at the same time (powerful pistols, milking with green fleshy flowers), and theres undertones of prostitution and neglect - "while you and your mother were asleep in the trailor park" I see the next stanza as a little interlude. It is the most honest clear and sad confession of Magnum's feelings for anne frank, especially the line "I wish I could save her in some kind of time machine". I don't think its got anything to do with the above or below stanzas. The last line is a kind of conclusion, an amazing blend of images on the subject of love, sex and pregnancy. |
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| Sonic Youth – Trilogy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I absolutely adore Hyperstation. I think that song, more than anything else on Daydream Nation, is about dissilusionment with Raeganism. |
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