| William Fitzsimmons – Passion Play Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I know a lot of people don't like it when music they enjoy turns out to be religious, but cajmilla pretty much nailed it. sorry. | |
| Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I feel like this song is about the struggle between pursuing one's passions (trying to do something unique, artistic, etc) or settling down to a life of just plain old good, hard work. When he's being raised, his parents tell him, "you can be what you want to be", "follow your dreams", etc, but now that he's older and has actually followed the dream of being a musician, he feels like it might actually be best to just work a 9-5 job and contribute to a practically functioning society. He wants direction in this struggle between the artist and the common man, because there are aspects of both of those vocations in his character. He's asking, "Do I keep writing songs, recording them, touring, and living a life that stretches and struggles, where I have to sacrifice so much of what constitutes a normal life just to be successful at it?" It's so tough to maintain relationships and be rooted in the world when you're constantly traveling and holing yourself up to write and record, only to go travel and tour again. Apparently this record actually cost him his relationship with his longtime girlfriend. So in the end he comes to this sort of conclusion: "If I had an orchard, I would totally content to just work it all day, work til I'm raw and sore, because I know I could come home to you, and you'd run the store, and we'd have this normal, functioning, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle, instead of this scattered, stretching, difficult life I've lived as an artist." I see this song as him looking back and being like "it could have been different". But in the end, what good is it to sing helplessness blues? So he keeps doing what he's clearly so incredibly gifted at, and he puts out an album that totally rocks me. Sidenote: the documentary "On a Carousel of Sound, We Go Round" by The Snake, The Cross, The Crown really deals with this struggle, particularly in regards to the band lifestyle. Also: I think there's a lot of validity with the communist/capitalist interpretation. These sorts of questions are the very kind that the two ideologies deal with. |
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| Straylight Run – Later That Year Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I actually think this song is about the vietnam war and has nothing to do with Bush. (and just so you know, hating Bush does not make you cool. Oh, and cowboyupinblue, name one "criminal shit" thing that Bush has done behind the scenes...) The 'nam war is famous for being the war that the Americans thought they were going to win but didn't. They were told it was an easy victory and when soldiers kept coming home dead, morale was getting low. There were also a tonne of riots and protests during the war because the people were upset that the war wasn't going the way it was supposed to. Not everythings about Iraq and hating Bush these days. | |
| Matthew Good Band – Strange Days Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Did anyone even read the the rather large and weighty comment by milarepa? other than getting the lyrics wrong for "the cars on the freeway are moving BACKWARDS (he said like slugs), its a well thought out interpretation. | |
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