| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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well nobody's said anything about this yet, but i think the song is about aging and a woman as she goes through this process. as someone said, fruit can be related to sex and fertility. Peach and pear are the harder of the fruits (less desirable, maybe?) and plums are the softest, like when a woman is in her prime and when she is most attractive The song i think is about the encounter of a mother with her daughter "sensitive bore", she's sensitive because of her age and her experiences that has made her wise, but she's a bore simply because she's old and even though she has the most stories to tell, she isnt the most interesting to listen to. markedly more, oozing surprise..maybe shes amazed by what her daughter has become "gathering floozies sneezing darkly"..could it be the younger, but slowly aging woman who tries to hide the fact that their bodies are becoming weaker (sneezing darkly) and they are becoming old "dimming divide" these woman are becoming something/someone they didnt wish to be, the dividing line between themselves and their senile parents are slowing disapearing "knocking me down...palm of eye" the mother can feel that the daughter someone despises her because it's HER future as well, and the mother understands this beause she's felt the same thing before with her mother, but we ultimately end up where we dont want to be anyway "i was riding its back when it used to ride me" shows that the mother is frail now and needs the daughter to "carry her" and help her with the simplest of tasks, when it used to be the baby that depended on the mother next stanza with the panic and so on simply implies all of our fears of being old, whether we already are, or will be. it's like watching someone with the same plague as you suffer and you get a view of the horrible things that will happen to you as well. "made me bolt like a horse" the mother is sad/ashamed of what she's become she just ends up hiding/staying home all the time, so people can remember as she was, not as the weak, dependant person she is now "watch it go...water run from the snow" is kinda saying "suck it up" or get used to it, because everything will naturally disintegrate one day anyway. "youve changed some, water run from the snow" the woman cant do anything about the fact that shes aging, she's already starting to "melt", water evaporates, then it snows and it's beautiful (birth), but snow will have to melt sometime and evaporate again into the sky (returning to nature, dying, becoming one with the earth) "am i so dear, do i run rare" could relate to commitment problems as said before, but to continue with this particular theme, it would be the woman questioning if her existence is that important at all, and trying to accept her fate and come out of denial (do i run rare?), "run" links back to the snow from the stanza before it, basically meaning "disintegrating," aging, in her case. she's saying "oh well, it's gonna happen to me anyway...it's not like im impervious to death, and maybe im not that crucial to the universe anyway, so what wil it matter to anybody" then the rest is the woman looking into the mirror and saying to herself "you've changed some..you're no different" sorry it's a bit messy, my thoughts are all over the place and im not exactly very eloquent haha this song sounds so depressing when you look at it this way, but yet it's all presented in such a beautiful and peaceful manner |
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| Our Lady Peace – Will The Future Blame Us Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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does anyone else think "come home" means to GO to the middle east or anywhere that's AWAY from where we are... cuz raine said that the culture shock wasnt from GOING to the middle east, it was coming home and i think coming home just means being able to get away from all the crap thats deteriorating north american society right now how does that sound? |
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| Sarah Slean – Bonnie's Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| awesome song. it reminds me of olp's theme for their album HEALTHY IN PARANOID TIMES. anyway, it says not to be afraid to go out to the world where the hurts are, because thats where you learn and grow. | |
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