| Huggy Bear – Dissthentic Penetration Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It would be the opposite of Authentic. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'd like to add that Monkey is also a tragic and almost sympathetic figure. He initiates the escape from servitude to humans, and continues to beg of Bear that they go to the imagined land of freedom excess before he dies, but he is not able to think beyond the paradigm of his experience as a performer/servant. He doesn't have a context for freedom, so he continues to function in slavery to the desires of his masters. He has exchanged organ grinding for a "hay-mongerer", to organ grinding for the townspeople, in both cases, for basic necessities. He is not growing rich off of Bear's toils anymore than she is. His crime is pride and the decisions he makes are based in fear. Several times he expresses concerns about what others might say or think about him, particularly in relation to Bear's actions, because he has not thrown off the restraints of servitude, as Bear seems to have. He is simultaneously afraid that Bear will leave him to find the freedom that he can't imagine or actualize, and that he will become free of social restraints and will become wild and uncivilized. In the end, because he was afraid to move on with Bear to the wild, he loses both the opportunity to be free, and his partner in servitude. An organ grinding monkey with no dancing bear will likely not draw a crowd sufficient enough to feed his ego and stomach, and his heart will grow cold without Bear to keep it warm. Bear has moved on to some other realm of freedom, but Monkey has lost everything. |
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| Chris Garneau – Relief Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I hear a couple of differences. I hear "We can work it all out" in the chorus, and i hear the second two verses end differently, the first as "ask me to sin, ask me to sin in red" and the second as "auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen, goodnight", tho I noticed in the video the "ask me to sin" line is repeated the second time through. Oh, and I am in love with this song and have listened to it 24 times today. As a narrative, I imagine a couple going to visit a city where one of them lived before they met. They pass an old friend of the non-narrative partner, and he doesn't acknowledge them. The narrator asks his partner why. His partner becomes upset, and the narrator relents, and attempts to comfort his distraught lover. As more people bustle by, the upset partner becomes more aggressive and angry and says some things he probably shouldn't. The narrator is steadfast in his commitment to making things work and points out that the two of them could even find happiness in hell, and that his reason for coming to the city in the first place is to spend time with his lover, not to see the sights. He reassures his lover that the two of them will "never never end", and promises to never ask again what happened between his lover and his lover's friend. But the song is better as a set of feelings without a narrative structure. Meh. |
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| The Decemberists – On the Bus Mall Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think by "I will not mourn for you" he means "I refuse to mourn for you", thus the advise to take off the make up and stop taking the pills, both of which are symbolic to the main character of the dangers of their situations | |
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