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| The Silver Jews – Black and Brown Blues Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this song is about a guy who can't really do anything out of the norm and who can't make any real decisions for himself (even choosing between black and brown shoes); the lonely king and room line is about how he feels trapped by this inability to live. He likes to dream about what it would be like if he could do all the things he's always wnated to (which is what the river does to the king). But in the end he's still just a lonely man.
The fake id's and honeybees then would be examples of the things he's thought about doing (fake id's being drinking and honeybees being going to aprositute, as a honeybee is a hundred dollar bill you pay to a prositute).Then the bird line i think is a play of the phrase 'i never knew angels flew so low,' as he would be talking to a prositute and she's not really an angel, so he compares her to some other flying thing. |
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| The Silver Jews – Ballad of Reverend War Character Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about how silly and stupid peoples' lives are. We all think we're so cool and that we're the center of the universe, but we're not. There is no center of the universe. All the different people in this song are just examples of this. |
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| Modest Mouse – Custom Concern Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think "i don't feel at all like i fall" means that he doesn't feel how he thinks he should, how he thinks life should be. When you fall, you just know gravity is going to be there to bring you back down. Because he's always doing shit he doesn't want to everyday and always living so far from nature, gravity (which ties into nature) isn't there to bring him back down. Something isn't right, and he knows it. Basically, civilization is killing him and making him feel depressed. |
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