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Broken Social Scene – Swimmers Lyrics 20 years ago
i think you could be right, austere. after reading it over again, your interpretation makes a lot of sense.

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Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Lyrics 20 years ago
I was talking to a friend about this song the other day, and she mentioned that she saw this song as being from the point of view of a mother thinking about her seventeen year-old daughter and how she has grown up and changed and has different priorities and how she wishes she could be her little girl again. I had not thought about it that way before, but it made perfect sense to me. I really liked that interpretation.

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Broken Social Scene – Swimmers Lyrics 20 years ago
i think the swimmer analogy is that the person she is talking about is just kind of leisurely "floating" through life and not taking any action. maybe.

and i agree that she is waiting for this guy to act.

such a kick-ass song. it sounds amazing. i wish it were longer.

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