| The Beatles – Across the Universe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Obviously about some hallucinogin. If you've ever done drugs you would know... pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind? That's what happens on shrooms (not sure about LSD but I think it's about the same)... Just look at every lyric definitely points towards how one feels on hallucinogins... amazing how it is so well captured and described... oh and for whoever said the song is like a drug, it only really takes you off if you have seriously experienced the trip because you can't imagin the enormity of these words and the universe until it is experienced. Take shrooms and you will understand this song. |
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| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It really is about death because it says it on the Decemberist's website under "Biography" : "sometimes the waterlogged mingling of love and death in “Summersong." I don't think it's a "little death" such as Pirate Queen mentioned but an actual death. Someone before said something about the woman is waiting for her love to come home. He is a sailor and he probably drowned. I think that's what this is about, she is waiting and as she waits she is on the beach, looking over the water awaiting her lover's ship. Yes, I suppose people aren't buried in sand, that was just a sad pathetic attempt to make the song into something I wanted it to be... war. The whole album seems to have a theme though--well actually nevermind, all Decemberists albums have the themes of love, death, murder and rape. This song seems to parallel Yankee Bayonet in my mind. Both songs have women awaiting the return of their lovers, but in the end their lovers die, never to return. Instead they are haunting. "He tastes the summer on her peppery skin." He could be remembering the days long gone, or maybe he's a ghost haunting her, he's in the wind. I also like how the word "Summer" really stands for the life and love that the two lovers had together. It was "swallowed by a wave" when he perished in a shipwreck. |
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| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It really is about death because it says it on the Decemberist's website under "Biography" : "sometimes the waterlogged mingling of love and death in “Summersong." I don't think it's a "little death" such as Pirate Queen mentioned but an actual death. Someone before said something about the woman is waiting for her love to come home. He is a sailor and he probably drowned. I think that's what this is about, she is waiting and as she waits she is on the beach, looking over the water awaiting her lover's ship. Yes, I suppose people aren't buried in sand, that was just a sad pathetic attempt to make the song into something I wanted it to be... war. The whole album seems to have a theme though--well actually nevermind, all Decemberists albums have the themes of love, death, murder and rape. This song seems to parallel Yankee Bayonet in my mind. Both songs have women awaiting the return of their lovers, but in the end their lovers die, never to return. Instead they are haunting. "He tastes the summer on her peppery skin." He could be remembering the days long gone, or maybe he's a ghost haunting her, he's in the wind. I also like how the word "Summer" really stands for the life and love that the two lovers had together. It was "swallowed by a wave" when he perished in a shipwreck. |
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| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Since everyone DOES seem to think it could most likely be about WWII, I think the walls of aluminum could be referring to the Berlin Wall which was built after WWII. As others have said, aluminum is not a strong metal, and would not work well for a wall. The Berlin wall in the end did not work. Also, I don't really think the nutritional value of cinnamon is that important to the song. I think they are just celebrating the end of the war by eating a spice that had been rationed away during the war. And yes, I was also thinking about Lord of the Flies... that's one of the main reasons I started to think it was about WWII. Also, just because they hide in the bunkers doesn't mean it's a nuclear war. It still could, but people have always hid in bunkers during bombings. Also, The Decemberist's songs usually dwell in the past, so I think it's most likely a past war. |
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| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Since everyone DOES seem to think it could most likely be about WWII, I think the walls of aluminum could be referring to the Berlin Wall which was built after WWII. As others have said, aluminum is not a strong metal, and would not work well for a wall. The Berlin wall in the end did not work. Also, I don't really think the nutritional value of cinnamon is that important to the song. I think they are just celebrating the end of the war by eating a spice that had been rationed away during the war. And yes, I was also thinking about Lord of the Flies... that's one of the main reasons I started to think it was about WWII. Also, just because they hide in the bunkers doesn't mean it's a nuclear war. It still could, but people have always hid in bunkers during bombings. Also, The Decemberist's songs usually dwell in the past, so I think it's most likely a past war. |
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| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I thought it might be about the london bombings because i don't know why, but when i heard the bombing part, i just thought of london in World War II. Also, that would explain why they wanted cinnamon because there are certain foods unavailable in war. Also, the people in london were trying to get away from the bombings so they left in any way possible, which explains them leaving... but then again, maybe it's a colonist expedition... it could be about the sons and daughters of liberty, that's what the revolutionaries were called in the colonies, which explains making the cold harbor their home because it's new to everyone. But they didn't have bombs then, or aluminum, (i think) |
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| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Maybe the girl is digging a grave for all the dead sailors... this could be the outcome of a war, and how the women have to dig their men graves and put them to sleep... or the men... enjoying summer have died and gotten swallowed by a wave. On the beach a few wash ashore and his love digs them graves. Too much if she dies, trying to hard to symbolize summer as love and it being swallowed by a wave... |
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| The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song is set in a more modern era than the Decemberist's songs usually take place in. Usually they are in times where people wore corsets, and spoke Shakespearean language. This song, I think, sounds more like it it's during the time of the flappers and gangsters. Maybe to set the mood for a different time period, they chose to use different music to show that. The music of the Decemberists is always made to set the mood, and they wanted to try something new and experiment. Personally I feel as if all the songs on this album are a lot different from their last ones, more electronic. This song also doesn't deal with death and murder, probably the happiest song on the album really, and THAT is really why it's out of place, because the people accomplish something... or do they get caught in the end? Is that what is said in the end? | |
| The Decemberists – Constantinople Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| How did you get this song? is there a site or did you get it off limewire? PLEASE TELL ME!!! AHHH!! | |
| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I thought this song meant something more along the lines that the singer is deeply in love with a girl, but she doesn't love him back, but he cannot forget about her not matter what he does, he writes pages upon pages trying to "rid" her from his "bones"... Each is a different example of how she does not love him back or how he has to work hard to keep their relationshiop. |
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