| The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
Just a question what you guys hear it as 'Will never take me anywhere but here' or 'They never take me anywhere but here.' To be honest I'd be dissapointed if it started with They. It makes it such more negative. Will makes home sound like a positive place. Which is a big thing in the album. I think that's such a cool idea about the uncle or father. That line definitely makes it sound like that. Except the line of memories eroding to lists seems too much like a break-up scenario. Could be though. I think it is also, it is very much about friends leaving home and some staying. I wish I could draw or paint or something, cause there are such strong images in this song that stick with me the most. Like the guy walking around without a jacket on, thinking about someone he loves, or someone spilling a drink at a party and seeing faintly familiar faces angry at him, or, best of all, someone in the back seat of car at night with their head against the glass, going across the prairie, dis-heartedly counting highway lines. I think why this song is so haunting and why it's hard to say how it makes me feel (and you guys^) is that it's not complete. One person's playing guitar and one person's on the highway home. What will happen? Haha maybe theyll meet in a truck stop. |
|
| Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
But I was on the hatch I was on the avalanche And I had found my match I was on the floor But I was on the hatch Riding on the avalanche I tried to take it back I was on the floor I think those 2 verses are about him losing his virginity in the back of an Avalanche. The "Come on!" lines could be referring to a vehicle that takes on all the elements. Which could relate to youself taking on whatever life has in store. You're missing the best line "Be a man now" Also personally, I ran to this song once and it was right by the ocean and it was a huge storm and these waves thrashed like 10 feet over me. It was epic. Come on! |
|
| Sufjan Stevens – The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the verses are prayers and the choruses are answers. The first one is about a gambler. Man's weakness, and the stone, cryptonite. So I think he just interchanges Christ and Superman whenever. Or the fact that christ faces temptation too could be "cryptonite". The second one could be reading his bible on his summer holidays... ? Could be wrong on that one. Last one is a mother and a drowning boy. And she's saying do a miracle because you have done it before. The halfways line is meeting Christ halfways. Cool song | |
| Matthew Good Band – Giant Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
I think when he says "how uniform, your beautiful is", he is saying more along how the lines of how everything about her is equally beautiful. That is right, you guys are thinking uniform with a connonation of conform. Uniform just means consistent in design. I vote love song, but Matt Good style. You cant deny I'm you're man baby I'm you're man. |
|
| The Weakerthans – This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| So why can't I forgive these building? It's like you've come back home and you're on a walk and you love you hometown but it leaves you with this unexplainable dreadful feeling but you love every landmark. Maybe you're not as good as you can be so you blame you're hometown on that. Maybe you blame it for the fact that you never change just like the buildings. Any other ideas on the title? ^ maybe. I thought it could be kind of ironic because there is no wrong to leave a fire door open. I lean toward it being memory. I just keep on rereading this 'I remember everything, lick and thread this string that will never mend you or tailor more than a memory of a kitchen floor, or the fire-door that we kept propping open.' Remembering everything wont fix you or give you more than a memory of a kitchen floor (I actually have some wonderful memories on my kitchen floor). Ok fire door. Someone take a crack at it. It just makes me mad listening to this song 1000 times and totally understanding the feeling to it but not really getting it. Help! | |
| The Weakerthans – Uncorrected Proofs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| We're all out of bandages. These bandages could be metaphors for things in the next song, "fire every phrase". Just good order for the songs in the album. A new name, corrected proof. | |
| The Weakerthans – A New Name For Everything Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Concious pilot.. or anyone. That is one one line I never fully got. I just don't. And also make you're face the flag of a semiphore. A face that is so convictionless that anywhere, maybe a party or something, people just go around you. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I just read most of these except for the middle ones so I feel I should say something. Yeah ^ great enigma song. The music says a lot in this song, like someone else said (a lot of this is a collaboration of what other people have said) like the first break really seems like a daydream fading into a rich memorie/feeling. Which is what happens so much when you're lying in bed. Umm first line the metaphor of the was wasp is memory, second time puberty. A stab I'm sure. Just the mournful break after that and how he kisses his friend and maybe when he sees it on his arm he finds it a little strange because of a tinge of sexuality. Also kind of out of place, just backing up the puberty line. Terrible sting, terrible storm: the stong of puberty and the turmoil that follows it. But but but how he repeats verse 3 or whatever the second time and he says I see the wasp on the length of my arm and it is TRIUMPH break. We were in love. Pallisades. I can wait. To me has two senses in 'I can wait" I can wait for camp next year and I can wait till the puberty turmoil passes and we can be like kids again. By this I mean the chorus 'Rivers and lakes all the great sights' or whatever he is saying there. Just generally that is a chorus of the whole album. Roadtripping, acting like a kid again. So some other things I thought of the song. Brothers hat. Just borrowed it from his older brother (you would only take you're older brothers clothes, not younger) because it was cool. And oh admiration in falling asleep. The feeling I get from it is driving home from camp and it's his friends parents so he feels comfortable falling asleep while Sufjan feels awkward being with his friend's parents. Someone said earlier swaggered and swayed is them parting. So true. I think it's two different approaches to puberty. He could be contemplating this all from this Seer's tower. Deep in the tower. Also could be a metaphor for mature retrospect. This song is so good. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.