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| The Antlers – Bear Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Why the hostility tackledpoon? A lot of this album sounds Ben Folds inspired. |
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| The Antlers – Bear Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere |
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| Joanna Newsom – Colleen Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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myeh_man,
While I don’t completely disagree with your post, I think so often peoples explications of Joanna’s lyrics fall back on the standard “expectations and gender roles placed on women” meaning. I think there is an element of this in the lyrics, but perhaps from a perspective different than what we are used to hearing from other female artists and traditional women’s lib voices. She seems to be such a naturalist. In relation to her body of work, I wonder if she is not more of an advocate for gender roles. Not in the sense that man imposes it’s will on each gender along with normative value distinctions, but in the sense that true equality comes in treating different things differently. When I think of this song I think of evolution. Whales are mammals of the sea. We go further and further along the path of “civilization,” first defining women’s roles as subservient, then further on defining their ability to act as if men. Colleen has forgotten even how to provide and nurture life (I tilled and planted, but could not produce - not root, nor leaf, nor flower, nor bean), but in her dreams she longs for motherhood (And I dive for my child with a wildness in me, and am so sweetly there received). Is that not a mirror of some of our more prominent women today. I think the artist is asking here not to be set free of man’s bondage, but that of advancing “civilization.” She wants to be free to be a woman, be a woman. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Annelise, any thoughts on the final line of the song, and the change from earlier in the song bear your teeth v. bury your teeth.
Also I am a bit confused with the bit about the bears threadbare coat and what she had been doing mending suspending that baseness |
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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Annelise, any thoughts on the final line of the song, and the change from earlier in the song bear your teeth v. bury your teeth.
Also I am a bit confused with the bit about the bears threadbare coat and what she had been doing mending suspending that baseness |
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