| Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow. I've been trying to digest this for a while now - and now that I've read the real lyrics, I've been trying to piece it together in my mind. I think this song is about Joanna returning to California as a changed person, feeling like she doesn't recognized her home. In the moment, she's overwhelmed by questions no one else is asking, feeling like what she has known is no longer hers, and she is unhappy with where we are all headed. Suddenly she realizes that we're all traveling on the road she's on as well - and she thinks about the journey, rather than the destination. "And I did not mean to shout "JUST DRIVE!!!" Just get us out, dead or alive A road too long to mention, lord, it's something to see! Laid down by the good intentions paving company" She admits that there is nothing we can do about the past, "it's falling back, like a rope gone slack". The following lovey part of the song (which is wonderful), I interpret as her proclamation love for both a lover and her life. She suggests that falling in love is the "course she keeps" - that love will determine where she is headed in life, and that will make it worthwhile and beautiful. She's been trying so hard to keep her life going the right way, that by allowing herself to be controlled by love, she is giving up a sense of security to gain an intense feeling of mutual security, which may, in turn, pave her road to hell, but the last line sums up all her feelings spectacularly. At least she's not doing it all alone. Just some of my over-simplified thoughts about the greatest song ever written. :) |
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| Great Lake Swimmers – When It Flows Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Living for the moment? Oh man, I don't know. The second verse is so poetic and lovely. "Everything is perfect in their imperfections" lovely lovely lovely and "The sky was a symphonic mural of stars hiding behind perfectly placed clouds." That's smart writing. Good stuff. |
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| of Montreal – My British Tour Diary Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is so flipping fabulous. Every lyric is truly priceless. The pulse in this song is...GAH it's really great. "Every single one of our London cabbies played The most truly repellent techno music ever made" True that. |
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| M.I.A. – 10 Dollar Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think it's really admirable for M.I.A. to write songs like this. I've been listening to this song for weeks but only today did I decide to look up the lyrics. She's very empowering. | |
| Barenaked Ladies – Be My Yoko Ono Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Does anyone know what the line "oh no, here we go, our life is one big pun" has to do with the part before? Are there some Beatles puns that I'm not catching? | |
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