| The Antlers – Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Emily, The story is literally about a Hospice worker dealing with a young male cancer patient. Weaved throughout are the references to the relationship; overall the death of a cancer patient and the anger and sadness associated is an allegory related to the failure of a relationship. What makes it such a well told story is the fact that throughout, the patient becomes the worker becomes the man, the story of these feelings is told from all sides, often in the same song. The first verse (the hospice workers perspective), the second and third verses (the man's), and the mixing of the two perspectives in the refrain are examples of this here. |
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| The Antlers – Epilogue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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From what I've gathered, and from what has been stated by the author himself, the album is the story of a failing relationship, told allegorically from the perspective of a hospice worker watching a loved patient die, the worker desperate to see the patient live, fantasizing about becoming the patient, and in the end feeling as desperately lonely and sick as if they were the dying patient themselves, becoming the patient in the end. You see him mix up themes in "Two", where he talks about rushed marriage, and combines that with the dream of her lying in a hospital bed, his patient, and "Bear" where he talks about how her abortion caused a rift between them. Sylvia Plath and Sylvia Bloch come up often because the stories written about the two mix the theme of hospice and relationship death even more: books have been written from the perspectives of the others in their lives, how living with a suicidal woman is like being a hospice worker, you are desperate for her health and for the health of your relationship. The link posted above gives a good example of just that feeling. |
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| The Antlers – Epilogue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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See the blog post: http://theantlershospice.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-nightmare.html Its a passage from a fictionalized memoir of a wife (Sylvia Bloch) that committed suicide: this passages provides much of the structure of this song. |
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| Say Anything – Alive with the Glory Of Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Heres a seperate interpretation I know its just my opinion, but just by the obsessive way he says things, this is not a love song. In the least. He is in a crazy obsessive relationship. I wont let them take you isn't something you say to be romantic. If he was trying to let her know that they would always be togehter, he would use "us" or, i won't let this happen. He won't let her go away, and its obvious that he is thinking about her in a perverted, obsessive way. "When I watch you, wanna do you, right where you're standing" Where in the song does it mention her reciprocity? Or here love in return? Just a thought |
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