| Poets Of The Fall – Carnival of Rust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| think i messed up on red cape and foil. foil is more likely a reference to dueling/fencing. red cape still makes me think of a superman type of "other man" in that grass-is-greener context whereby closing in for a kill seems more applicable in how he and this other man are battling this duel for her. ya... and savior is definitely not a kind of religious savior. it seems like a direct metaphor to this other man in a song of indirectness and insinuation. | |
| Poets Of The Fall – Carnival of Rust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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he's in a disintegrating relationship. "D' you breath the name of your saviour in your hour of need, n' taste the blame if the flavor should remind you of greed, Of implication, insinuation and ill will, till' you cannot lie still, In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil come closing in for a kill" savior could mean spiritual savior, especially with the word blame in the second line - in that blame would come from religious guilt. but savior could also be the "other man" in her "hour of need". the middle two basically talk of this acid building up between them - their communication losing directness. in the last line, red cape and foil... jeez... i'm thinking it could be a dual meaning again between the devil (religious again) and superman ("other man"). the devil implication would be that more generally she does something horrible while the superman implication specifically means that she gets with this other man. foil could mean shiny & new in that grass-is-greener concept. "Come feed the rain Cos I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust Yeah feed the rain Cos without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust" feed the rain sounds general to me... just that he needs her involvement and reciprocity - but it could also be tears from working through these painful times. "It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need I lust for after no disaster can touch us anymore And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before" just beautifully written. especially the line, "where enough is not the same it was before". hmm... this is kind of best explained by just reading it i imagine. but basically, he wishes they could live together satisfied with each other. "Come feed the rain... Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the world is burning Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning" : P |
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| Laura Marling – Old Stone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the lyrics i've heard have... "Don't you love, Don't you love me that way." the double meaning, like the whole song, talks about a star-crossed love. this isn't her wanting to be free of a relationship. maybe intellectually, sure. she knows it's childish to think that things might work. but the word "but" in the final line is where she doesn't care. she's in love. |
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| Jets Overhead – It's A Funny Thing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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my take... the two interpretations i see are a broken relationship or a death of someone close. the indirectness of the song also reflects the pain and sadness he's in. "It's a funny thing when you lose your faith in a grand design." the words grand design imply god's design and his intent. suppose this is commonly done after some kind of act-of-god event but people question a greater design after all kinds of tragedies. "Like a flickering on a back-lit screen shadowed thoughts arrive." his view/viewpoint on what's left is now skewed/damaged and "shadowed". "Starlight in the dead of night takes a tower down sure sign that the plan devised came from nothing known." i believe starlight to be another symbol of god or the heavens although there's a few interpretations i think. maybe lack of a moon - a typically female symbol. bright spots in the night - possibly sex. taking a tower down also could mean a few things. it's could be from the tower tarot card implying tragedy. also possibly the death or destruction of a human equivalent of a tower. i guess it could even have a literal meaning (9/11?) but probably not. lines 3 and 4 again question that grand design or at least can't understand the why. "These nights fall through the glass Her eyes make amends.(?)" glass has the double meaning in how painful the nights are and also in how he looks through this window to the tragedy. likely nightmares. "Trees lean over empty streets as the power goes." that hole inside him wants to be filled and the arching over of that empty street is the best his body/mind can do. "...as the power goes" - the emptiness debilitates him. normally he's powerful/capable but now crippled. "No sign of a pearl inside deals a crushin blow." some of the strongest words in here in some ways. and for those that relate or identify in some way with the depression here, you're not alone. "You realize that the sunny side made the shadows cold." taking for granted the warmth of that lost person. that without that person, the world is a much colder place. "Petals fall waitin for the rise of another sky." the slow death of the flowers is another symbol of his sadness and fits both the death and relationship interpretations. he's waiting for warmth to return again in time. "another" though... probably isn't, but possibly the wish for someone else to fill that space. more likely it's a desire for a "brighter day". "I said I won't look back" paradoxically, this whole song is a look back on what happened. i believe he wants to avoid the pain of looking back - probably repeated for emphasis because of the conflicting desires in his head. the one that wills the pain away and the other that unconsciously desires that reflection. "Eyes wide in the dead of night" looking for answers. "These eyes too will pass" i believe he's talking about his own death and likely reflecting on his life going forward. in the case of a relationship, i believe he's reassuring himself that things will get better and the darkness he's under will fade. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Poets Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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my take... seems like there's two naratives. the critic's (in all likelihood, basically the real voice of gordon) and that of his resistant adversary. so - ok, "Spring starts when a heartbeat's pounding When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accounting Lava flowing in Superfarmer's direction He's been getting reprieve from the heat in the frozen-food section" this is gordon's voice. so spring starts with birds, but that they're being heard amidst the sound of this "reckoning"/"accounting" of our impact to nature itself. likely carts really means cars. they're noisy and fit the context that way but also represent the impact that we're having in pushing back nature. the word "final" in this is pretty ominous, and i'm sure it's meant to be that way. lava flowing in superfarmers direction. generally, farmers are on the wrong side of a lot of scary trends. basically implies the erosion of the land via overall nutritional decline in the soil from overfarming and possibly desertification, global warming, gene narrowing in general and the problems associated with it, and economic pressure from global food trading and attacks from the wto on farm subsidies in western countries. their reprieve is beautifully sychronized with the other metaphor - the lava - in the frozen foods section of the supermarket. selling what they can now before any of these eroding trends take hold. "Don't tell me what the poets are doing Don't tell me that they're talking tough Don't tell me that they're anti-social Somehow not anti-social enough " so ya, i believe (with the exception of the last line) that this is his adversary / sarcastic voice. basically saying, "don't worry about it" or a general "i don't want to hear it". the line about anti-social however... i believe that this is a play on words. i believe he's actually saying they're socially critical. this makes the fourth line look probably a lot less sarcastic with him saying that the social critics aren't even critical enough. an important statement in this song i feel. "And porn speaks to its splintered legions To the pink amid the withered cornstalks in them winter regions While aiming at the archetypal father He says with such broad and tentative swipes "Why do you even bother?" " this is a different trend he's taking on... pornography. you might be able to say he's describing an overall lack of importance to fidelity in our society or more simply how it too is eroding. splintered legions is kind of funny. it's not as though people are openly supporting porn. the archetypal father though... "why do you even bother" to try to find your wife as a sex object when porn is what turns you on. although the attacks aren't necessarily only there. the "broad swipes" also come in the form of the other criticisms he has to his role in society - particularly from other forms of social criticism on the whole. like if we're destroying nature and eroding the land via overfarming etc, then what of the people that want to be good, upstanding people? and again, the "why do you even bother" rings true although i don't believe he would mean it literally - only insofar as it incites action. "Don't tell me what the poets are doing Those Himalayas of the mind Don't tell me what the poets are doing In the long grasses over time..." chorus again, although "those himalayas of the mind" sounds pretty crazy. it's like double sarcasm. probably feels good singing it lol. it's a little different though in that he's sort of saying, "don't tell me what it is you predict for the future". words like "long" imply that the adversary/sarcastic voice believes it's a long way's out and may have an irrelevant tone. "Don't tell me what the poets are doing On the street and the epitome of vague Don't tell me how the universe is altered When you find out how he gets paid " the sarcastic tone criticizes the critics for being vague. typically a lot of social criticism comes out in the form of vague statements. "we're eroding the land", "this pollution is destroying us", or "our politicians are corrupt" or whatever. which isn't to say that examples don't exist - but it does tend to spiral towards that infinite conversation you'll never have. what he says in the 3rd and 4th lines is one of the more common criticisms people have in regards to corruption or biased influence. basically why lobbyists and lobbying companies exist - because of the results they get. this is the voice of that guy that just wants to be left alone - which brings us to the last bit. "If there's nothing more that you need now Lawn cut by bare-breasted women Beach bleached, towels within reach for the women gotta make it That'll make it by swimming " basically he's saying fuck you to that guy. take your complacency and denial and pampered life and fuck off. |
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