| Belle & Sebastian – Beautiful Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Lisa is probably a girl that started off trying small things to make her life more interesting like photography and then when stuff like that got boring she tried more and more things like porn, maybe not only watching it but doing it or just having a lot of sex. maybe she got a disease that can make you go crazy and blind like syphilis does but she keeps this private because everyone expects her to be a certain way or maybe she just begins to regret some of the choices she has made and this causes her to become angry and not want to share her life with the world even though people would want to help her. She gets better but will always have the memory of it because of the limp which could be literal or mental. yes i realize this is a bit too rational but hey it could be this way. also, this Lisa and the Lisa in she's losing it could be the same Lisa and this would support the trying new things because Chelsea and Lisa leave the school of knocking (knocking boots which is a term applied to the act of having heterosexual sex) and go to a school were the boys like boys and the girls like girls and Chelsea decides that she doesn't need boys anymore because she has Lisa, who has been willing to be her friend till now and been through thick and thin with her so why would this be any different. Lisa has been easily pursuided and been willing to be Chelsea's punching till now and maybe this theme continues its journey in the song Dress Up in You, were the friends have a miss understanding about an agreement/understanding and stop being friends. Maybe the arguement was over the fact that Lisa wanted a normal life and Chelsea didn't. anyway thats my thoughts overly rationalized but interesting. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Dress Up in You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is not about Isobel. The song is about two girls that were friends and goes back and forth about their thoughts on their current life situations and the friendship they let end. The famous friend is talking about how she was the leader (the singer in the band) and the other friend was just a loser and the lackey. The famous friend is also discussing that she always felt that her friend would go places because the friend actually had talent and potential, but has not and maybe will not achieve success. The famous friend discusses the double standard of female female behavior, she is expected to be polite and soft, but that's obvious, right? The second friend (the loser) is talking about how jealous she is that her friend got famous even though she has absolutely no talent, but she is very aesthetically appealing to men and thats why she has been successful. They regret not being friends anymore because they made wach other better. The famous one wishes that she could be as elegant as the "could have been" and talks about how she was angry that the lackey friend didn't want to follow her around anymore and tried to strike out on her own. The lackey friend's life is now that of the everyday mundane of disappointment. A reconcilation occure because of the famous friend wanting a true friend again, but it doesn't seem like the lackey friend wants to. | |
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