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| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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No matter how literally you want to interpret the happenings described in this song, you all already know what it's "about", you can hear it flying out of the harpsicord in the first few measures....this song is so full of hurt - deep, complicated, confusion.
You can hear her disbeleif in every note; she's still trying to wrap herself around what happened, every word and rise & fall is set to the beat of a head shaking back and forth, fingers tracing along the shards of something broken.... Someone is not who they were before. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Wolverine Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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While I agree that this song is simply named after the town of Wolverine, (quite a snowy and bleak place, I've only been there under the context of chaperoning 6th graders to a small camp there during deer season...we'd hear gunshots all evening and try to link them to the ghost stories we told.)
But its also important to note that the wolverine is a mysterious emblem of Michigan, because no one knows the last time the animal was spotted anywhere near the state. |
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| Logh – End Cycle Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this song is so heartbreaking.
in my opinion some of the lyrics need a little work (too emo for my taste) but that piano is heartwrenchingly beautiful. |
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| Iron & Wine – Blue Leaves Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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it's hard to determine such a thing, but this might be the most poignant, beautiful Iron & Wine song ever written. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Pittsfield Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Very little information is available about Sufjan's own past and personal life...but I do know he has a creative fascination with dysfunctional parents, especially mothers. See this song, "Romulus", and his previously published short story, "My Mother, King Tut."
So does anything have any insights on his facsination with poor, unloving, bad mothers? Or do they just make for good songs? (because this one sure is) |
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