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| DJ Shadow – Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song feels like a battle between steady resolution and pain and distraction. You have the simple, almost naive, introduction, trodding along and moving forward. The drum break enters as reservation and second thoughts, but leaves as new resolve when the strings go solo. |
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| The Velvet Teen – Noi Boi Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'd like to say it's about being content, but the song itself doesn't seem entirely content. The first two verses are so strange -- sedatives? Regrets from heaven?
It sounds like he says sometimes, instead of "there will not be a need to be scared", "there will not be a me to be scared", a denial of an afterlife -- making the song that much more focused on the here and now. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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If Sujan hadn't explicitly explained otherwise, I'd consider a twisted Christian interpretation from the perspective of Judas: something about the red hat being a crown of thorns, seven places from which Christ bled, the kiss to betray him, "I meant no harm" as a reference to conflicting desires, "on the length of my arm" as a reference to guilt, etc. Of course, there are obvious difficulties with this interpretation... but it's interesting to note recurrent themes, even if it's more of an exercise. |
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