| Brand New – Accident Prone (Jawbreaker cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Why would he leave out: "I wanted you. You wanted more. I built this life and now it's mine." but aside from that i really like it |
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| Brand New – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song always strikes me as extremely innocent, and it's an amazing cover. I read through the posts under the lyrics of the original version, and i really liked this one so i figured i'd repost it here: "by blurppi on 06-14-2003 @ 10:24:59 PM I've always thought of this song as a story about a family that lost the father figure. All that is left are two young boys and a mother. The boys handle it in different ways [One becoming emotionally detached and angry at his late father, the other sentimental and unable to cope with both the loss of his dad, and now the abstract loss of his brother]. The song is in the view of the sentimental boy. My favorite line is 'How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth', referring to the fact that the angrier child wants the arguments with his father that other boys his age spend so much time complaining about. The wings line [Blister please with those wings in your spine] refers to the fact that the boy wants his dad to feel the pain in Heaven that the boy is feeling still trapped in this tragedy. I think spines are just a pretty poetic thing, the central part of every person, connecting the body to the brain, and that's why NMH concentrates on 'em so much. And the last part is talking about the boys' mom. It states that she'll take care of them, bringing them up to be both loved and strong men ["She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires" referring to both a motherly and fatherly upbringing.] The part that hit me the strongest was 'But don't hate her when she gets up to leave' which is referring to when she dies, the boys shouldn't react the same way as they did to their father's death [With a hatred of sorts] but rather accepting and caring. The title implies that there are two boys raised the same way and very alike are treating the same situation differently, giving them one body but two heads, metaphorically. Wow, that was a long post. " |
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