| Bishop Allen – The Monitor Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The context for a song about this battle is hinted in the song: The Monitor became the Union's first ironclad warship at a shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where band members were living ("Once a great ironworks stood at the end of my street"). Incidentally, "The Same Fire" was written about that same building burning down, and was released a month after this song during the year of monthly EPs. For all the song's splendid historical detail about the ships and the battle, it's being used as a metaphor in line with some of the earlier comments about how we undertake these difficult transitions in our lives and how that actually affects our day to day workings vs. internal life. Also, Bishop Allen can time travel (clearly) and were playing on the deck of one of the ships (though they won't reveal which) during the battle. |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – I Want You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Kristian straight up covering Bobby D. For all their similarities, Kristian pours more sincerity into this song than the original did - though not quite as much as Springsteen did. | |
| Voxtrot – Fast Asleep Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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wow, I hear this song as the total opposite, as more about being present in what you're doing, which often involves a lot of hard work, and not just running the path of least resistance. see lyrics: "and I woke up with a song 'cause I had a dream, yes I had a vision of people/lying in the sun sleeping on the rocks and stones/waiting just to die they were just fast asleep like lions" and "someday you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you sweat" |
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| Mirah – Mt. St. Helens Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'la petite morte" refers I believe to the orgasm itself, though the interpretation of the phrase as being about a post-orgasmic depressive lull plays into the song really well. I see it as about an inaccessible relationship complicated further by sex. I've been unclear, though, as to whether the described trip to the mountain is supposed to be during the eruption, or whether being there is just a reminder of it - possibly like being around someone you slept with but couldn't be with, and being reminded of that heat. Maybe it's a little bit of both. Regardless, beautiful imagery. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Holland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the line "lose ourselves to lose our minds" always reminds me of the line in Dar Williams' "O Canada Girls": "I'm so sick of forgetting myself to remember who I am" | |
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