| Jeff Buckley – Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's about the (former) racist south...and the hanging of a black man. | |
| Iron & Wine – Bird Stealing Bread Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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A common theme in Beam's lyrics is a love that seems to be stolen from him. This song is very similar in content to "passing afternoon." He talks about windows being open and closed which seems to be a metaphor for the woman who has been "stolen" ignoring the outside world after being "stolen." I'm suprised no one has commented on the line that says "Do you carry the words Around like a key or change?" This seems, to me, to represent a person remembering everything they talked about and the author wondering if she carries them around in her pocket. |
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| Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is, in my opinion, written from the perpsective of a man who lost his wife to another man. The author and said woman are together during the summer when it was warm and her "Bougainvillea blooms". Then she left him and her children in the autumn, which "blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made." This line comes from the popular phrase "you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it." The "perfect bed she made" was the love the author and woman used to have, but autumn messed it up. The woman has chosen to be with the new man, but the author finds closure in the fact that she still thinks of him while ignoring the outside world. "Only now I do believe Sometimes, with the window closed, she'll sit and think of me" The last line of the song means that she chose to be with the new man only because she was afraid to be alone. |
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