| Augustana – I'll Meet You There Someday Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Probably Lucinda Williams. | |
| Mew – The Zookeeper's Boy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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“If I don't make it back from the city Then it is only because I am drawn away” Perhaps this guy is finally starting to see that the woman he loves doesn’t love him the way he needs her to, and he’s thinking he needs to find something better for himself than this relationship that causes him so much heartache. “Evidently there's a dark storm come And the chain on my swing is squeaking like a mouse” Mice are often associated with fear and I think that “hearing this sqeaking” (a.k.a. seeing this problem in their relationship which is foreshadowing the end of relationship) brings out fear, both with the idea of a mouse nearby and the swing’s chain breaking. I think that when he’s talking about the rain coming down and the cars having to “remain”, which I assume means pulled over to the side of the road, he’s referring to when complications come into your life and you can’t find your way out of them so you freeze out of fear or confusion and wait for things to hopefully get better. The cars re-made at the end could mean that the storm/problem has cleared/been resolved and now you go on with life. I agree with the tall giraffe signifying confidence (or perhaps thinking she’s better than him, as seen in the line “I could not be seen with you/Working half the time”) and then being scared by actually being with him (the ostrich in the sand). “How dare you go? Cold in the rain” Maybe he’s thinking how can she leave me when I’m the one who has had to deal with not being good enough all the time? Thus he’s now heading to the city, meaning moving on to bigger and better things, hoping to “re-make” what he’s lost. |
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