| The Weepies – Slow Pony Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's more like she got together with the guy and didn't realize how much he really meant to her until the slow pony of truth arrived. I dunno if anyone else noticed, but the part about the window is a really nice metaphor. Just when you get it clean, you notice all the fingerprints and smudges left. And no matter how many times you try to get them off, they stay around. So, no matter how hard she tries to forget him, his fingerprint is still on her window. Now that she's alone again, she notices how chaotic the world is, and wishes he'd come back. The pony has arrived; she knows she loves him now. |
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| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hmm. I always thought it was about a guy who regretted not having spoken up about his feelings for a certain girl. Thus the 55 3/8 years bit, and the opening stanza leading to the "you didn't write" part. The Apocrypha were secret books of the Bible, as I understand it, so that could reference his keeping his feelings secret. And the whole song is so full of intense regret at things undone. |
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| Andrew Bird – The Naming of Things Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always felt it was more of a song about falling in love. "You remind me of you" for one thing, and the idea that his audience "broke his window" but "despite all the mess and the broken glass," he was impressed seems to suggest that his opinions of the girl are pretty much set in stone. He fell off the pier--fell in love--and waited so long he had to look elsewhere--to the waterbugs, skating in figure eights--to find beauty at the bottom of his lake. The memory part is a little weird, but I think it's sort of like he has told her how he feels and knows she doesn't feel the same, so he's reminiscing about the old days when they joked around about plastic bags and moose's horns. But now she won't come back around to him--to her homeroom--even when the "bell rings." This makes him very sad, which makes her feel guilty, prompting the Russian play verse. But on top of it all, he still loves her--which reflects the title: He has named the emotion he feels for her, even if mentally she wasn't "there" for it. |
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