| Ours – Red Colored Stars Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| Ours – Red Colored Stars Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I would like to take a stab at the symbolism and meaning in Red Colored Stars. Bear with me. This song is sung in the first person perspective of America During the Cold War. First, the meaning behind the mentioned Red Colored Stars. I am thinking that these are representation of communism. Accusing an american of being communist during the cold war are like stones. These stones left scars upon our culture, upon specific people whose lives were ruined by mindless finger pointing and hate for cultures not of our own. It is sung "I'm a slave in my head, I'm awake in my bed". Our culture consisted of slaves to the idea that communism is wrong and democracy is the god-given rightful path. War was immenent upon several occasions, it was in america's way, interrupting our sleep and comfort. I (america) can feel it! Tell me what you think, certainly this song can be taken many ways. |
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| Bright Eyes – When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The first verse speaks of his drowned brother. He could be envisioning himself being in the bathtub with him as he drowns. Maybe his mother let Connor out but killed his brother and Connor wishes that he would have stayed and suffered the same fate? “Tomorrow when I wake up” ...could mean that he will be killing himself tomorrow to suffer that same fate or he will be in the afterlife with his brother and he will never desert his brother again. The first chorus is about death. He longs for his coffin and for the trees to drop their leaves on him (implying that he will be in the ground for more than a short time). When he puts his face in the dirt -is buried- he will finally see the sky that has been avoiding him, that is to say that he will see no sky except the roof of his coffin - blackness - which avoids any living person. The second verse is about a suicide letter. He started it and will send it to Ruba finished or not; no doubt she is a close person to him. She will bless it by reading; he thinks her to be holy. Her hand on her swimsuit may be her reaction to reading the note; putting her free hand over her heart as she realizes what he’s going to do or has done. The letter itself wishes for the future and disregards his heart (emotion); he no longer cares. All he wants is the warm feeling of someone speaking softly to him when it would seem no one else would. His room being the world as he experiences it - it is dark and cold. The last chorus is about a realization. Despite the pills he takes (prescribed by a doctor - he may or may not want them) that try to balance him out, and any attempt to get their effect without actually taking them, he has realized something. Maybe this realization is the effect of his psychological problems or maybe doctors have diagnosed him with a problem though he may have only figured out something about life they haven’t. The girl in the display case is a manikin who finally realizes that there is an entire world outside of her little area, which would be a mind blowing experience. This is metaphorical for the final realization of human purpose, what existence really means. Are humans not inside a case, small, devoid of meaning? What if we could find what exists beyond the walls of our confinement - our bodies. That is what the last line is about. |
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