| Iron & Wine – Naked as We Came Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Not to make the discussion overly Biblical, but "Naked as we came" is a phrase that comes from Ecclesiastes, a book that pictures life as very fleeting and senseless. In it, one is told to enjoy oneself with a woman he loves in the time he can (it was a patriarchal society, so young men to be educated are who it's written for). I get a playful feel from the line "I keep stealing, breathin' her" in that she knows he's acting like he's asleep, but just enjoying the moment, "breathing her". The next verse is similar, he's smiling "like our sleeping children" perhaps he's still faking being asleep. I don't think all of that has deep symbolic significance, I think it's just to tell us something about the couple and what sort of context these thoughts are occuring to them in. They are totally sleeping in on a Saturday morning after having some hot sex the night before and he's just enjoying the moment, appreciating the permanence of their love, amidst a realization of the fleeting nature of life. |
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| Iron & Wine – Love and Some Verses Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I get an entirely different feel from this song than any of you seem to be getting. I think its in part about a guy and a girl that grow up together and fall in love. The first verse is about them falling in love and how it is innocent. She "made" love, not in the sexual sense but in the sense that it grew and the hiding of the knees symbolizes the innocence of it. But then she gets caught up in things, maybe the social scene of high school, maybe college and ignores him for a while. But he knows that she loves him and is just wondering whether she'll decide to keep that love "to wear." The second verse I think comes when they are back together, maybe married. He wants to love her in that ineffable way that some verses together with her feeling of love mean. While her contentments change, he wants her to involve him in that change. So it's about phases of life and what love looks or feels like at those times. It think this makes sense in part because of the similarity of chords and picking pattern of this song and "Naked as We Came," which is about an enduring love at a very particular time in life. |
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| Iron & Wine – Bird Stealing Bread Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah, that makes sense. It's like a bird that flies away in a guilty sort of way for taking something that's not hers. So she took his love and ran and it sounds like he's asking her if there's meaning with this new guy like he felt for her. | |
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