| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Skeletons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I also think it's about the end of a relationship, specifically about what's left of her after relationships have ended; a fragile skeleton of what she was. The first few lines seem to suggest that no matter how her relationships end, they always leave her in the same state, "Love left dry / frost or flame / skeleton me". Whether by having a relationship burn out in a passionate blaze or slowly freeze over, she's always left as this skeleton. Then the next few lines seem to be about why she retreats into this skeleton of herself, and how she deals with it. "Fall asleep / Spin the sky / Skeleton me" - we can collapse and abandon our lives while we try to cope with loss, but time will keep progressing. The Earth will continue rotating around the Sun, and so the sky will keep on spinning for us. We can sleep, cry, dry our eyes, and eventually life will return to our battered skeletons once again. "Love, don't go / Love, don't cry" could be a lonely refusal to believe what has happened, or maybe it suggests that we don't have to lose all the love once shared when relationships end - maybe friendship can still bloom from the cinders and bones. I love the clacking drumsticks that're slowly introduced as the song progresses - really evokes the hollow brittleness of a skeleton. What a great song... so sad, but I love it. :) |
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| Arcade Fire – No Cars Go Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm not sure if anyone else agrees with me, but personally I think that the song is about that beautifully simple moment you can hide within as you lie in your bed and wait to fall asleep. You might slowly drift off into your slumber, or you might be unable to due to anxiety, you might lie beside someone you love, you might contemplate your existence and your life, or you might not. But whatever the case, while in that moment - between the click of the light and the start of the dream - everything is safe and uncomplicated. In contrast to this feeling of safeness and simplicity, you've got the previously established themes of the album - the abuse of religion, corruption within America, etc. So, this song - being the penultimate track - is sort of saying that things may be bad, but we still know a place where everything's okay. There's a place where no cars go, no ships go, where none of the complications the luxury of civilisation has brought about can hurt us. At least, that's what I take out of it, anyway. I think it fits in amazingly well with the new album... it's nearly enough to think they had it planned all along or something. =P Amazing song, anyway. Mmm. |
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