| The Decemberists – A Bower Scene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'd only add quotes if they were in the official lyrics...which I don't have right now. | |
| The Decemberists – Annan Water Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah, I transcribed the lyrics here having only heard it twice, so there are some inaccuracies which I was hoping other people would correct. Figured it would be better just to get them up. I'm not sure about this, though, since he usually enunciates the k when he says 'wreck' and he is a shape-shifting animal, so rat might work as well. I don't have the official lyrics in front of me of course. | |
| The Decemberists – The Infanta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^^Unfortunately, that's not correct. Colin has mentioned that it is about a ceremony held in Spain in 1824. This would mean that the Spanish infanta in the song is none other than Luisa de Borbón, Infanta de España. I'd like to do more research on the ceremony and who the Baron and Baroness are. They are not her parents because Luisa de Borbon's parents were The Duke of Cadiz and the Princess of the Two Sicillies |
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| The Decemberists – The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Duchamp's piece of work (it's not a painting) consists of two parts: the Bride's Domain and the Bachelors' Domain. The piece of art is pretty abstract, but the generally accepted interpretation of it seems to be as follows: The Bride's Domain is above the Bachelors' Domain. The Bride is alone in her pane of glass looking down on the Bachelors (note the plural). They are physically separated. The Bride is aloof and the bachelors are all inept. Essentially, the painting seems to be a comical outlook on how romance works. How we have to jump through hoops to get the dream girl, but, perhaps, she may just be leading us on? For a much better (and more complex) explanation of the work: http://www.understandingduchamp.com/index.html (go to the date 1923 in the flash and you'll get a really good interactive interpretation of it). As for the song, it takes a slightly darker interpretation on it all. One of the suitors (perhaps there is only one in The Decemberists' version) has been having a secret liaison with the Bride. But, she is infertile. In Duchamp's painting, the wife is a prize, toying with the bachelors. Perhaps she is sleeping with them all and refusing to marry a single one of them. Perhaps 'tonight' she was to make her choice on whom she was to marry. But, this particular Bachelor knows that she's 'useless' as a wife because she is barren. Thus, outraged at having been toyed with for so long only to realize the truth, he drowns her after beating her and perhaps raping her. |
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