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| Blind Melon – Letters From A Porcupine Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm really confused by this song. Does anybody understand the last stanza? Seems like a political song. And if read one way it can seem almost prophetic. Shannon died in 1995. Clinton was pres. Well, George W. was elected in 2000. The last line says, "Maybe the next in line will be someone who's Daddy's blood, ran out next to Bush and it be him." Maybe I'm way off or just overanalyzing. Anybody? |
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| Elliott Smith – Condor Ave. Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Oh god I could write volumes about this story. It's such a well thought out fiction about lack of communication. She falls asleep at the wheel after a fight. He's left at home to think. The screen door he slams representing a useless display of emotion. While she slips off into oblivion, and the useless drunk who witnessed the whole deal but was unable to communicate anything about it because of his innebriated state. "Bottle in between his teeth...Buried in the sand at the beach." The cops scrambling for clues but the real reason for the crash is much deeper than just some ordered evidence. The cops again representing order. The moth that is doomed to repeat this self-abusing action of bumping into a light bulb...do you think the light bulb represents him or her? Light bulb, something bright that the moth is constantly attracted to. He loves talking about the moon. It's cycles, how it will follow you around, or in this case, she follows the moon aimlessly and thus crashes. Kinda like the light bulb. He's blowing smoke signs to her, another useless attempt at communication. And then he finally delivers the most biting line of the whole song. "What a shitty thing to say, did you really mean it?" There's so much subdued angst in that line and spiteful indifference in that line. And then finally the resolution where he tells you what the song is about and how he is finally going to deal with their situation. "You never said a word to me about what passed between us." And "Na na na na" Geez man, and he allegedly wrote it in high school!!! unbelievable. |
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| Elliott Smith – Sons Into Daughters Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Of course when he does use the cops as a reference he uses them to represent order much as he uses the army to represent authority. "I'm a policeman directing traffic keeping everything moving and everything static." This use would contrast well with the fact that there is a "riot coming." I actually like to think of him as a fucked up traffic director sending everybody in the wrong direction. Good shit. |
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| Elliott Smith – Sons Into Daughters Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Yeah I know Elliott changes his lyrics a lot. But I always heard "In storyville, I fuck to cop. And I'm on prescription pills." That always made a lot more sense to me. #1 because much of his persona was based on excessive drug use which was actually usually only metaphor. #2 it makes more sense with the song to me. Although he does change perspective a lot in his songs from 1st to 3rd person and back again and changing tenses. #3 plus "copping" is a recurring theme for him. Cops are also a reccuring theme: "She took the oldsmobile...the cops were running around the scene..." "Always fears cities finest follow right behind." But to me the other way just makes more sense. Any thoughts? |
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