| Fleet Foxes – Your Protector Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I must agree with OVNS. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I totally agree with andthroughaday... I guess that's what I was SOMEWHAT getting at...I just didn't say it so well. This song is really beautiful. Oh and uh...tranquilasadove.....Sufjan actually plays jingle bells on his new christmas album. I'll admit its no comparison to this beautiful song...but it IS on the christmas album. Which EVERYONE should buy!!! Its great! | |
| Iron & Wine – The Sea and the Rhythm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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First off.....BEAUTIFUL SONG!!!! But then again, what has Sam done that isn't? Anyways... My take on this was originally that is about his mother rocking him as a baby. I don't claim to "know" that this is right, but i will definately try and support my claim: ---milk from your breast is on my lips------- not many ppl. seemed to want to go into this when they said this was solely about sex. I'm asking you to look at it for what it is. Poets don't write things for no reason. i personally have trouble equating drinking breast milk with sex. I mean, its sensual, but not in an erotic or sexual way. It's about the close bond between a mother and child. Hence, this line (in my opinion) specifically refers to what has been going on before these thoughts occur. (milk is on lips) ---Lovely your/lovelier(not sure) words from your mouth to me------------ Infants hear words without recognition of what they mean. I think babies can sense moods from how someone is speaking. I feel that the mother is singing to the child because of this line. The baby hears the words and recognizes they are lovely, even without knowing their meaing. ---my hands...move over you--------- Reminds me of how a baby clutches to its mother when being breast fed. ---we're the sea and the rhythm there---------- Just as waves in an ocean have a rhythm as the tide moves in and out, I feel that the baby is being rocked in a rocking chair back and forth. ---waves and wind and night is black---------- Eyes closed (all of these things are black, and therefore in his imagination), the infant imagines simplistic things like the ocean. ---Scent of long black hair, spread out like your breath across my back------------- The infant's senses are strong because his mind is still developing. So he smells his mothers hair, which is laying over his back like her breath, which is on his back as well. She is holding him and rocking him to sleep, so they are close. He is small enough to be held, so hair & breath can spread out easily across his tiny back. ---Your hands move like waves over me-------- His mother is rubbing his back, perhaps burping him as he has just been fed, according to my theory of the song. Simplistic thought of an ocean (like waves...) as he dreams and drifts to slip/burps? ---Tonight, we're the sea------------ Yes, i know. When people have sex, they roll around in bed and they are connected. I think this is very intentionally meant to sound borderline sexual because of the EXTREMELY close bond between a mother and child. Ginsburg wrote about his mother in a similar manner, but he was more extreme. I think if we look at it from the narrators perspective, though(an infant) we would not see this as sexual because Infants have no knowledge of sex. They just feel things. This song is mostly about feeling things. It really makes me long to go back to the time of innocence when things were so simple. We obviously can't remember those times very well becuase our minds were still growing. We cannot go back to our infancy because, besides the obvious physical impossibilities, we have no real recollection of such a time. I feel that this song is an attempt to do just that. To seek the end of afternoon and see things through innocent eyes again. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh dear...this is such a beautiful song. I love how Sufjan can talk about Christmas in a song without the song being competely about christmas. I do, of course, feel that winter is used here to show the state of the narrarators broken heart being cold and angry and Christmas is a happy time within the cold of winter in which friends can be happy together and the narrarator can try to overcome his broken heart. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this is a beautiful song that really examines what it's like to experience sudden chaos in a calm and peaceful world. it is, of course, about the string of 47 tornados that hit the Midwest on Palm Sunday, 4/11/65. One tornado hit Crystal Lake, Illinois. Many people were attending church and were not expecting a tornado on that day. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Saul Bellow Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well I looked up Saul bellow and if you go to wikipedia.com and search for him, read the criticism section. It seems to tell about the trouble/controversy he caused. he also taught in schools so i suppose thats why sufjan says get in solid walls with the know-it-alls. I think its "get in" not "Getting"....i'll have to check the booklet in the CD case. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone with You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I find it interesting that so many ppl. are SO turned off to christianity that when they hear a beautiful song like this coming from a brilliant artist who happens to be a christian, they choose to hear the song as being about a regular person rather than jesus. What sufjan is saying about jesus is competely true. He was a man who chose to give up all human indulgences: self-gratification, sex, personal goals, etc....and as the bible says(also if you will notice, as Sufjan says)... Jesus gave all this up to save mankind from Hell and allow us a chance at Heaven to be alone with us. I know most of you will automattically read this and get angry because I am throwing the Bible in ur face and your turned off to religion. But what I find rather strange here is that when Sufjan basically says the same things, but in a more artsy beautiful way not meant to get you to "come to Christ," you would still choose to hear it as just some regular person because Jesus has too many negative connotations. My purpose in writing this is to influence those of you who would rather hear this as being about a regular man to respect Sufjans lyrics and, at the very least, understand that it IS about Jesus and accept the beauty in it as being about Jesus' love for us. SO what if you're not a christian, thats not what Sufjan is trying to make you. He is just revealing the beauty in his beliefs and in Christs love for him and all of us. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – No Man's Land Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| no comments??? | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| That was Bobby Watson by the way... | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| In addition to wanderingmounty's information on the shadfly: I looked up Bobby and Springfield, Illinois. the only person I found was comedian born there in 1888 or so who started with small parts, then he did predominantly efiminate parts, then he became famous for playing hitler in movies. Towards the end of his career, he was simply waiting to get little one-liners in a few movies. That sounds similar to the story of the shadfly...spending most of his life unnoticed(under water) and then he finally comes above surface to get his break(as HITLER of all things) and everything falls apart from there as he is no longer needed. Or maybe he has nothing to do with the song, but Sufjan seems to introduce the history of these places into his stories...Maybe I'll come back and critique it further some other time. In the mean time, look it up urself and see what you find. | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – Moving Pictures Silent Films Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Oh and I think some of the words here are wrong. I'm pretty sure these are right corrections, i could be wrong. I just did it cuzz some of the words are important to teh meaning of the song. and maybe twice the "man" than i thought i was... spenind it all "on" moving films, silent pictures..... will the heart "beat" slower and slower.................. But i took "it" for "love" or at least something beautiful... I'm "there in" the spotlight................................. "I" turned around "suddenly............................... turned around "squinting".................................. Bearing down "on"............................................. "completing the dotted line"............................... |
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| Great Lake Swimmers – Moving Pictures Silent Films Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Memories often dont come with sound. I feel that the writer has lost a great love and is spending all his energy in being complacent and alone and remembering what he had. | |
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