| Sarah McLachlan – Wintersong Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the narrator is thinking of a lover because of the line: I lie awake and try to recall How your body felt beside me although I guess you could make an argument for it being a parent. It's easy to relate to for somebody in a long-distance relationship as well. |
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| Derek Webb – The Very End Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| beautiful melody. what a sweet love song. | |
| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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neonbiblethumper: this is a minor quibble, but the only time I can think of a seed used metaphorically in the bible it stands for the Gospel - not faith. So I think the lyric implies either that the actual gospel message is useless or the one that is poffered by hypocrites. I'm inclined to believe the second because of the later biblical reference about hypocracy "who's gonna throw the very first stone." illt3ck: most sufjan sevens songs ARE about God or Religion. And it's not unreasonable to think a song published in 2007 using war imagery is about the actual war, unless there's a compelling reason to think it isn't. |
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| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is critical of those who pervert religion. They "work for the church while my family dies" and "Say it’s money that we need/ As if there were only mouths to feed" That is, the role of religion is not only to feed mouths, but souls. I think the song is saying religious leaders are falling down on the job by grabbing for money and power rather than providing what we really need from religion. The soldier images, then, are soldiers for the Lord or onward christian soldiers or whatever. "You’re still a soldier in your minds/But nothing's on the line" to me means the endless battling of culture wars and "persecution" of american christians is because these leaders must see themselves as fighting something, even if there is nothing on the line. Of course, this isn't wholly separate from the bush admin, and that reading is compelling too, but this was my first thought. Especially given the religious overtones of the whole album. |
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| U2 – Gloria Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think when interpreting this song we should also recall that in ireland, for centuries, there has been a conflict between catholicism and protestantism. By using latin, Bono is likely invoking catholicism (the latin mass etc (although this is post-vatican II... whatever). If I'm not mistaken, at this time Bono and pals were pretty deeply involved in a protestant religious group who was pressuring them to leave their rock and roll lifestyle. Regardless, Bono's lyric of surrender and glorifying God do point to some of the primary virtues of the protestant and catholic traditions. I think it is, among other things, an effort to point to the way these traditoins should learn from and respect each other rather than fight as they have been for so long, and with so much fervor in Ireland in particular. |
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