| Wild Sweet Orange – Ten Dead Dogs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think more than searching for a meaning in his life the speaker is questioning his belief in, what sounds to be, the Christian God. It sounds like the speaker is coming from a background of faith having experienced The Spirit through tongues and he's questioning is this really what God had planned out? He asks why love (Jesus) would come to earth and die then leave. It gives us a sense of abandonment, really. Then he asks again is this what you want and could you do anything about it if it's not. I think a lot of people can identify with the idea of this life being a subplot so something else. I love the ending which is, to me, so ambiguous in it's emotion. Is there hope or despair there in the thought that there's something the world needs from him? |
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| Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone with You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I absolutely LOVE how the risky thing to do in music anymore is talk about Christ!! No one blinks if you cuss and refer to lewd acts, but speak positively about the savior of mankind and people are 'turned off'. They shove their fingers in their ears and sing "lalalalala I can't hear you LaLaLaLa!" I remember the days I did that with affection and relief they've ended. I do agree with several people who mentioned that Sufjan has a unique and incredible sound that the Christian music scene is seriously lacking. It's a very personal style that the listener feels like he really wrote it for his own worship and not to be cut and copied by 17 year old youth group worship guitar players nation wide. |
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| Over the Rhine – Born Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always pictured this song as sort of a lyrical version of a late night conversation with the speakers boyfriend/lover/husband. She's saying that they were made with the capacity to laugh and love but they have to learn how to take that gift and express it through the hard times. I feel like "Intuition, deja-vu The Holy Ghost haunting you Whatever you got I don't mind" and "Secret fears, the supernatural Thank God for this new laughter Thank God the joke's on me" are sort of descriptions of what the conversations are about. And then she wraps it up with saying that they've been in worse relationships and situations [landfill rainbows and junk yard of love] and that it's not what they deserve, what they deserve is what they have with each other. I love the landfill rainbow and junkyard of love line because it pairs the beautiful with the ugly which seems to describe perfectly those situations where it's the right thing wrong time or whatever. |
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| Jeremy Fisher – Fall For Anything Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this is talking about much more than having political views. You'll find that a persons moral/ethical/spiritual beliefs are what fuel their political views so this goes deeper than that. I think it's clearest in the last verse where he asks if the devil is paying your tab. He's asking where your values and loyalties lie. | |
| The Weepies – Citywide Rodeo Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I haven't made sence of the whole thing but the "say goodnight Grace" might be a reference to the old show with George Burns and Gracei Allen where at the end Gracie would say something rediculous and George would end the show with "Say goodnight Gracie." In my fam with one of us got to a point where we didn't make sence someone would say to us "say goodnight Gracie" and that was our que to throw it in the towl, which sort of seems like this song is saying. The speaker is telling someone that they're "fighting" something that can't be fought and they don't need to "save face" but should throw in the towl- submit to the way it is so you can enjoy it. I don't know. |
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