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| Hey Mercedes – Bells Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It seems to be an invective toward a vaunted philosophe whose intellectual attitudes and cruel demeanor are both annoying and eminently mockable. |
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| Hey Mercedes – Stay Six Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It does seem to have both childish and grown-up themes running side-by-side, but I can't comment on that, really. But I do know of a children's book which may have informed the title. "Eloise's Guide to Life: Or, How to Eat, Dress, Travel, Behave, and Stay Six Forever" by Kay Thompson. |
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| Hey Mercedes – Roulette Systems Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Well, it's certainly a love song. (And a rockin' one at that). I like the "well" double-use, and there's another one that the lyrics unfortunately don't reflect:
"We stopped when the snow made it so hard to see,
We sank in the seats and you LIED into me."
In this particular HM song, Bob tends to pause after he makes a pun, and this one is the one that brings together the loud, fast, raucous nature of the song with the tender lyrical content. It is essential. |
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| The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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So, it's hard to comment on the Crane Wife cycle itself, because it's split in two parts. And the last part comes first. In medias res, indeed, koolaird. It is really difficult to listen to these two (three?) particular songs without thinking of it all allegorically. Not just that The Crane Wife is a fable with a moral ("value love over money"), but that there are so many ways that such could be relevant to society, from sociological issues of love and family in modern time, to the blatantly political (Colin, in Pitchfork, said that the Decemberists couldn't avoid being a wartime band or something like that). Good luck figuring it out. |
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| The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 1 and 2 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"Sound the keening bell,
And _see it's painted red_". This is a very important line to get right. You see, the whole red thing. Blood? Blood, anyone? You get it now? Great. Further explanations: "keening" means lamenting, specifically in the Celtic tradition, as part of a "wake". Fontanel is the "soft spot" on a baby's head where the skull hasn't quite grown together yet. This should help. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I kind of think it's more a simple charge of emotion--the summer was happiness and joy, mirth and romance, and now he's gone dark like the weather, but he's come back to wish all those friends the best, knowing that 'tis the season for all that. I kind of adore that about Sufjan--he's able to nail very nuanced emotions in short pieces. |
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