| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"We could stand for a century Staring With our heads cocked In the broad daylight at this thing Joy Landlocked In bodies that don't keep Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being Until we don't be told Take this Eat this" There is something about that part of the song that is just too gorgeous, and I think it's power would be diminished if it was part of a 4-minute song. The length provides the space for these little gems of stanzas to surprise us. Its just that feeling when life is so beautiful and you feel so small, that you just want to bask in it. The stars are so large and permanent, whereas the line "in bodies that don't keep" is reminiscent of all of the cycles of life and death she refers to within nature and the harvest. Our bodies betray us, with diesease and death, and somehow we have to reckon with the temporary. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Overture Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it is the perfect bridge between his last album, and the new one. "Wind in the Wires" was all about escapism, and had a lot of surpression underneath it. Here, he starts out by saying "So come on now, open wide, open up now", almost as if he is egging on his past self. The voice he takes, as well as the title, reminds me of the Emmcee of a carnival outside a closed curtain, lecturing an audience before the show starts. This is consistent with the frantic bells and fair-ground noises on tracks like the "magic position". It is also pretty creepy, playing with the image of a dentist asking his patient to "open up", as well as the sexual connotations of the phrase, but ultimately, the opening to the beautiful, kinetic, demented, and redeeming world that this new album is. Edited by evanreyes on April 30 2007, at 02:13AM |
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| Patrick Wolf – Overture Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it is the perfect bridge between his last album, and the new one. "Wind and the Wires" was all about escapism, and had a lot of surpression underneath it. Here, he starts out by saying "So come on now, open wide, open up now.", almost as if he is egging on his past self. The voice he takes, as well as the title, reminds me of the Emmcee of a carnival outside a closed curtain, lecturing an audience before the show starts. This is consistent with the frantic bells and fair-ground noises on tracks like the "magic position". It is also pretty creepy, playing with the image of a dentist asking his patient to "open up", as well as the sexual connotations of the phrase, but ultimately, the opening to the beautiful, kinetic, demented, and redeeming world that this new album is. | |
| Regina Spektor – Dog and Pony Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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here is how she introduces the song on the recording I have: "This song is called 'Dog and Pony', and I heard the phrase somwhere, and I think I just, um, it was used in a cool context, but I completely changed the context, and I just like the sound of it" I think that it is about really loving someone, but knowing that they can't love you back the same way, but not having the strength to stay away from them. She keeps wishing "just a little bit more love", because that might make it ok, and then when the other person can't deliver, she comforts them "But it's alright Don't cry It's alright Don't cry It's alright Don't cry My sweet" Eventually, she realizes "there is no clean slate", so she has to get away and start over, with only her dog and pony to keep her company. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Get Lost Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| the album version is worded a little differently during the chorus and the end. | |
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