| Feist – Brandy Alexander Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| though Ron Sexsmith's music has a certain 70's vibe to it and he did start his first band when he was 14, believe he co-wrote/collaborated with Feist on the song in this decade. but, yes, his version is quite nice, too, and thank you for the link to the song. | |
| Os Mutantes – Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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********************************* The first joy of the day is a ribbon of sun that wraps itself around your hand and caresses my shoulder. It's the breath of the sea and the beach that awaits. It's the bird who sang on the fig branch. The first sorrow of the day is the door that closes the car in which you go. The silence that settles in. But good, you return quickly and my life gets back on course. The last joy of the day is the lamp that goes out. ********************************* pretty recount of a day in the life of a pining lover. particularly the last line which hints at what that last bit of joy is. |
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| The Notwist – Pick Up the Phone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think the video linked below just about describes it. it's about communicating, not isolating yourself and acting for the now so that the past may be amended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhgxr47tAMs |
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| The Police – Every Breath You Take Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"You belong to me." how can that not be creepy? that's not love; it's what someone says before they beat, kill or maim whatever they consider their property has stepped out of line? |
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| Iron & Wine – Sixteen, Maybe Less Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it's a song about love lost. words and imagery support that. "Time has bridled us both, but I remember you too" bridle indicates something restrained, held back. it is not allowed to be free. this comes up first with the stanza before when the wife and son are mentioned before dripping with regret contrasted with the longing for first love: I met my wife at a party, when I drank too much My son is married and tells me we don't talk enough Call it predictable, yesterday my dream was of you there is a distinct contrast between frustration with his REAL life (wife & son) and his DREAM of a lost love. the wife and the lost love are not the same thing. also, consider that though the song starts out with the old love in summer, the dreams of his old love always takes place in the wintertime, also a symbol of the death of the love. this continues the seasonal metaphor that Okjunga and woodendogz and others mentioned. there is also the image of the sun going down signifying the end. Beyond the ridge to the west, the sun had left the sky Between the trees and the pond, you put your hand in mine Said, "Time has bridled us both, but I remember you too" And though an autumn time lullaby Sang our newborn love to sleep I dreamt I traveled and found you there In the woods one Christmas Eve, waiting most poignant ending with "waiting". beautiful. |
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| Ron Sexsmith – Secret Heart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Or the fear of being overheard?" this part is so tragic and true, in a sense, as Sexsmith is an under-appreciated artist. admired by other artists and covered by many but has yet to achieve the world renown he deserves. |
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| Feist – Brandy Alexander Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Cassaroll168, i think you mean Ron Sexsmith, a fellow Canadian. and, yes, they did co-write Brandy Alexander, together. he just put his version out on his album, Exit Strategy of the Soul [2008]. very nice. this is not the first "collaboration" with Sexsmith; she covered his Secret Heart on Let It Die [2004], a sweet song about overcoming unrequited love, which sums up how i see him, a very shy artist who truly deserves his just dues. |
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| Arcade Fire – Haiti Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I_LOVE_CAMP, i was trying to hold back from responding to you but found your comment so incredibly annoying, i had to post. 1) you made no real comments about the song, itself, and only made a very shallow and truly uninformed criticque of the song writer's experience. judging by the scant yearly jaunt you take to Haiti compared to the lifetime Régine Chassagne's family has lived there, i would give her heartfelt song more credence than your sloppy comment. 2) unless you're working for the Haiti Travel Industry, there really was no other point to you posting what you did. xiaohoa, agree that Haiti does fit into the volatile mix that is Funeral. there's a feeling of extreme loss: loss of land, family, loved ones. but there are also hints of perseverance: Tous les morts-nes forment une armee Soon we will reclaim the earth All the tears and all the bodies Bring about our second birth i think that accounts for why the music is so bouncy. it is hopeful that one day a new Haiti will be reborn. it sounds more like a funeral where people are celebrating life instead of death |
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| Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I guess I am beleaguering a topic that was already beautifully addressed by SLYcrafts but this is such an important song and Billie Holiday's strength and bravery are greatly misrepresented when a History teacher claims that she did not want to do it and was pressured into doing it. The opposite happened. People were trying to prevent her. Her own label refused to record it Some clubs would not allow her to sing it. There were a few times when people in the audience physically attacked her. So it was through her own indomitable will that the song ever came out for us to hear it This article briefly describes the history of Strange Fruit You'll understand why Billie Holiday cried after singing it: http://www.ladyday.net/stuf/vfsept98.html |
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| Nina Simone – Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You are right, LittleBriddie. "Seven trees" has absolutely no relevance to this song. It's about lynching in the South, hence, Southern trees i/o Northern trees. Sad thing is, there are a couple of deluded people who posted this same mistake on the internet, just check out the following lyric sites: http://boscarol.com/nina/html/where/strangefruit.html http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nina+simone/strange+fruit_20100706.html http://www.goldlyrics.com/song_lyrics/nina_simone/pastel_blues/strange_fruit/ Nina Simone did have her own take on it, though. Such as saying "Them big bulging eyes" i/o "The bulging eyes". But the two that interest me are "Clean and fresh" i/o "Sweet and Fresh" and "For the leaves to drop" i/o "For the trees to drop". I don't like clean as much as sweet, as sweet has much more of a double-sided meaning. There's a good sweet of fresh flowers but then there's the sickening sweetness of rotting fruit. But I do like Nina's choice of leaves i/o trees. I got the shivers from hearing her singing "leeeaves" and holding it, as I immediately thought of the bodies being dropped to the ground. |
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