| Damien Rice – 9 Crimes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Damien Rice has no equal in my book, but I think this is one of the most overhyped song. It's lovely (Lisa's voice makes it all the more so) but it doesn't have the emotional depth as do most of his songs. To me, it's plainly and simply about a serial cheater, hence 9 crimes. Yes, he feels guilty but tries to explain to the girl that his loaded gun (totally a phallic symbol) just needs to be, um, fired and that since she won't do it, he'll find someone else to "shoot it." I will admit I liked this song more before I saw the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smKb79ltpaU), which I thought was utter rot. |
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| Damien Rice – Grey Room Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is easily my favorite song in 9. Just amazing. In his shows (I've been to a few), Damien does say that this song is about being stuck in a song-writer's block (as mcmahon3 said), but like most of his songs, it is so nuanced and multi-layered you cannot assign it one particular interpretation. It will mean something different to everyone who listens to it. That is part of Damien's genius. I don't think he is depressed, but just in a deep funk. And he is wondering whether his Muse will be able to help him climb out again. All the things she was to him (open door, sandy shore, bridge in this storm, someone to keep him warm) represent the figurative ways he feels she has helped him break out of this funk -- an open door in this mental "prison" he is trapped in; sandy (and perhaps sunny) shores to which he can swim after being (ship)wrecked; etc. He's in a rut, that's why everything's kinda the same ("nothing is lost, it's just frozen in frost"), even his feelings for her ("I've still got me to be your open door/sandy shore/bridge/warmth"), which to me seems like they looked to each other for inspiration. I don't know anything about Damien's and Lisa's personal relationship but I can imagine them being each other's Muse. Maybe this was written at a time when she was testing other waters (and we know she did eventually) and he was faced with the prospect of losing her. Heck, I'd hate to lose Lisa, and I'm a hetero female. |
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| Damien Rice – Volcano Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is oh so very sexy. The give-and-take, the way their voices yield to each other...heavens! it makes me blush. | |
| Norah Jones – Don't Know Why Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song lyrics are okay, but Norah's voice gives me goosebumps. Kinda like Josh Groban. Soooo ethereally beautiful. Somebody please hook them up with better songwriters. | |
| Damien Rice – The Professor & La Fille Danse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Loving is fine if you have plenty of time For walking on stilts at the edge of your mind Loving is good if your dick's made of wood And the dick left inside only half understood her" I love the lyrics to this song, especially those aforementioned. But I've given up trying to understand it all. Like, who is the man and why is his face in the mud? And "an overcast play just taken away from the lovers in love at the centre of stage" -- does this mean that there were too many people involved in this relationship (overcast) and so they were sifted out (taken away) so the two key people (lovers in love) could focus on themselves and themselves alone? Hell, if the Professor himself doesn't know then how the hell should I? Why do I like this song so much when I don't understand half of it? Must be that sexy little man's voice. (Damien, please draw another picture for me...I can't find the one you made of me having dinner...) Oh no I don't know I don't know I don't know hell i don't know... Someone help me please. |
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| Damien Rice – Cheers Darlin' Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I LOVE Damien but I cannot sit through this song without getting a really bad taste in my mouth. That bitterness is palpable, ain't it. | |
| Damien Rice – Delicate Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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However many meanings he intended for his album title, Damien's "O" will always mean "orgasm" to me. No one's voice has the same effect on me (though Dave Matthews comes close) and "Delicate" wonderfully showcases the power of his voice, although "VolcanO" is perhaps his sexiest song. It is enough to drive this lemming into the sea. That being said, "Delicate," to me, is simply about a love that should not be, because the relationship that exists between them is regarded especially by the girl as too important to risk damaging by indulging in the expression of this love. I don't think it's necessarily an affair; i'd call it more than just "delicate" to be cheating. I picture a widow and her husband's brother: there's no cheating since the husband is dead, but them going public might raise a few eyebrows. Okay, okay, let's make it less morbid and say it's between a divorcee and her ex husband's brother. Yes, that sounds better. Regardless of who's involved, it's about two people being on two different planes of emotion. The girl doesn't seem to take their "relationship" as seriously as the guy does, and the guy is venting his frustration over her casualness, her lack of emotional investment. He must have been through some really tough heartbreaks to write like this. Damien, I'd let you break my heart if I wasn't already married. |
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| Damien Rice – I Remember Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about (forgive the crassness of this) a booty call. Once lovers, now separated, Lisa reminisces about their relationship, remembering only the better moments: how she fell in love at first sight, etc. And now she wants him there with her. Damien's part comes in after Lisa has placed the booty call. I imagine him either driving to her place or else just standing above the answering machine, listening to the message she has just left him. He obviously remembers the negative aspects of their relationship and is wondering why she has called him. I think this is why it is entitled "I Remember" because it shows how differently two people can feel about something they shared. Lisa's glass is half-full; Damien's is half-empty. Lisa has got the most exquisitely lovely voice and captures that sweet nostalgia perfectly, while Damien is a little terrifying, if only to show how savage love can be. |
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| Damien Rice – The Blower's Daughter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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There are so many amazing songs out there but without hesitation I can say that this is my favorite song ever. Damien is amazing. i remember seeing the CD when it first came out. I am a sucker for packaging and something about "O" made me pick it up. Since I had never heard of Damien Rice before my husband told me not to buy it. I don't know why I listened to him. Anyway a year later, I saw the CD again and thought, 'ok I don't know why but I have to get this." I ripped the CD open the minute I got out of the store and popped it into the car cd player and went straight to Blower's Daughter because the title intrigued me. That was the day the music died for my husband (he hates Damien) because ever since I haven't stopped playing the CD, especially Blower's Daughter. As far as interpreting the song, I think it's enough to say that this is about unrequited love. Certainly he loves her still; I'm not sure if she feels as strongly about him. But circumstances dictate that they cannot be together and so she ended the relationship, or perhaps there never was a relationship at all ("the shorter story, no love no glory, no hero in her skies"). He's left still pining away but he is honest enough to admit that he won't pine away forever; he ackowledges that there is room for "somebody new." I like that he at least identifies the two involved: the blower's daughter and the pupil in denial (his clarinet teacher's daughter and himself). I'm not completely certain what he means by "the colder water" but I guess I don't really feel the need to have every phrase dissected anyway. The longing he feels is evident not only in the lyrics but in the melody, in his voice, in the melancholic cello. And that is why the song speaks to me: because it is so honest and unsugar-coated. Sigh. I love Damien. |
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