| Bright Eyes – Jejune Stars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Megbird, Right On. I agree so much with pretty much everything in your post. i think understanding "the wheel of becoming" is something that is important especially in this album and much of Conor's work since Lifted, and i hope this is important to you in your life as well. our hearts and minds, all of us together. One thing where i differ from your ideas is about the rain in this song. Conor has continually used weather as a metaphor for the future, or the passing of time. Remember "If you want to see the future, go and stare into a cloud" and "the future hangs over our heads, and its moves with each CURRENT event, until it falls all around like a cold steady rain - *just stay in when its looking this way*" there are plenty of other references across the albums, maybe not as explicit. so we see he also uses hiding from the rain as hiding from change and future and time. I think this is still what hes saying in the chorus of this song, but "is it true what we're made of" refers to the themes of oneness, wheel of becoming, code, dna, patterns and relations, etc. (those themes are worthy of their own thread) so why hide from or be scared of the future/time/uncertainty if it is true what we're made of (oneness, love). Love! |
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| Bright Eyes – One for You, One for Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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from my viewpoint of the song, the lyrics read true if you capitalize each One. "One for you, One for me" - I don't think its so much about divying things up Hence the end: Now that we've come so far away from us Now that we've come too far to say You and me, you and me that is an awful lie You and me, you and me that is an awful lie It's I and I All=One |
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| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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oh and id like to add: im sure Conor may have an addiction to heroin, or have an eating disorder, but i really think this song is focusing on cocaine and alcohol, heroin is huge in NY?...this is really just a silly claim. I mean, im sure heroin IS big in NY, but so is cocaine. just like every other major city. this song could have come from conors experiences in NY, but the theme is not region-specific. conor has friends who are heroin addicts? this is a 'fun fact' but look at the lyrics. anyone who has led this cocaine and alcohol lifestyle will agree. "actor's westside loft" - money, glamour, cocaine "supplies are endless in the evening, by morning gone" - cocaine binge, alcohol consumption. heroin is not an all night social drug like cocaine. right as you inject the heroin, you are gone, you don't keep partying and impressing (painting eyes, wearing masks) "keep going to the bathroom" - yes i can see why some would jump to eating disorders, especially if they have heard of conor having this problem. but this verse is very clearly about cocaine. "in the morning its a drag" cocaine makes you skinny just like eating disorders. lack of appetite, malnourishment of the body... "die from medication, but at least we killed the pain" - substance abuse! not eating disorder. however, i would agree eating disorders would fit with the theme, maybe conor even made this ambiguous on purpose for he is singing of a life based on addiction, across the board. its all about indulgence, glamour, self destruction, all building on each other leading to some level of depression. whatever angle you take, its most definitely a discussion of multiple linked destructive behaviors |
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| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this song is not just about coke use. the different parts of the song aren't separate statements, but one unified song, like all of connor' songs. it is about a life built on addiction. substance addictions (and behavioral addictions like eating disorers, although i dont think this is specifically what the lines mean) build on a personal level, and also on a social level. The people that teach dui school and counselors at rehab, and the people that write the 'health' textbooks call it "state dependent learning" (the more you party at the bar and blow line after line in the bathroom, social situations or social 'learning' become dependent on that 'state'- cocaine high). you don't meet friends at the cafe on your lunch break for sober times. you don't meet or flirt with members of the opposite sex while sober. all you begin to know is the cocaine binge (this is true with alcohol, coke, and other drugs as well). eventually the only *real* connections addicts have are with other addicts (same or different substances). - "it takes one to know one, i think you've got it bad" i think the second verse (about conor's isolation in the city during the day), and the third (about his empty relationship) reveals that this lifestyle built on addiction is what the song is about. of course, addicts dont really think of things in these terms, but it is almost always their state of mind and state of life. the emotional highs dont go as high over time. and the lows go lower. the overall average emotional state just gets lower. i have lead part of my young adult life in a state like this. and the lines that really really hit me and in my opinion sum up this song are Conor's warning about this lifestyle: "It's not something I would recommend But it is one way to live Because what is simple in the moonlight By the morning never is" It is not an outright warning to those who abuse alcohol and cocaine, for Conor doesn't feel that it is his place to judge. It is your life, and it is one way to live, but like all other addicts, its not something he would recommend. |
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