| The Hush Sound – The Boys Are Too Refined Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this is a beautiful and creative interpretation of the poem "the boys i mean are not refined", by e.e. cummings. As a literature buff and publishing employee nothing makes me happier than literary allusions! | |
| Augustana – Boston Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I absolutely adore this song. I heard it last year and then took my first trip to Boston a few weeks later (coincidentaly). I fell in love. Now, I'm going to college at Lesley University in Cambridge this coming fall and as I listen to this song I can't help but get emotional. I can't wait to get out of this town. "I think I'll go to Boston..." | |
| The Decemberists – The Infanta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The baroness and the infanat are in fact the same person. The song is indeed about the spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, Infanta of Spain and later, Princess of Whales and Queen of England, wife of Henry the eight. The Infanta refrences her as a young girl, still belonging to Spain before she was sent to England to marry Prince Arthur (Henry's older brother and original heir to the throne). Later, Arthur became sickly and died. Henry, in love with Catherine (and much younger) since her arrival years before, married her on the basis that the church proclaimed that she and Arthur never consummated their marraige (heatedly disputed topic). Catherine was desperate for a child and had many miscarrages, still-borns, and cradle deaths. She had one daughter, Princess Mary, and was eventually proclaimed barren and Henry challenged/broke away from the church, set her aside and married Anne Boleyn. The Infanta in the song references the princess and her innocence and loveliness as princess of Spain. The barren Baronness represents her later in life. She sits "seething spite" at the "lucious young girls" who are symbolic of Henry's long line of ("fertile") lovers/future wives. |
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| Single File – My Best Defense Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I slightly agree with "your-my-starr" on some levels. I have a couple differnt ideas for this song. Two friends. An accident occured, one died, and the other, still living, is the narrator/singer of the song. The accident I keep thinking is a car because..hey, that's the most obvious kind of fatal accident but with the line "I never saw the broken glass" it could be the friend commited suicide and the singer feels responsible for not seeing the signs. Then, the singer himself dies..whether from committing suicide as well (though to me that doesn't seem very likely) but by another way (more likely) and even in death, still feels responsible for the friends death. If you think about it further, someone might have even killed the singer as revenge for the first death...hints are "as callused knuckles cross my face" as well as "Zip ties and fiber choking me These ropes biting at my feet Eyes wandering And I'm wondering is this really happening to me? Blood between my teeth Flows from my mouth to my best jeans" Zip ties and fiber---some sort of bag he was stuffed in Ropes biting---tied up Eyes wandering---looking for escape(another hint it wasn't suicide) Wondering....---yet another hint it wasn't suicide... Blood......jeans---shows, with the "knuckles" line he may have been beaten up. But then these lines make me think twice: " Unfree release I'm twenty feet and sinking fast And I won't hold my breath Let the water fill my lungs And I will travel to my death Tell my brothers that I am happy Tell my mother I won't be visiting As I lay my head to rest At the bottom of the sea" It seems he either accepted his death and since he has such a sense of guilt he secretly welcomes it...especially with "unfree release' showing he's being set free of the guilt, yet he's still physically tied up. Or he really did just commit suicide out of his intense guilt. Yet, these are the most literal interpretations I could think of...I could be completely off point. But what I love about this song is how beautiful it is, even without analyzing it. The song itself is amazing..and the fact it has such open room for interpretation shows it is, truly special. |
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