| The Spinto Band – Directly To Helmet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song is about how shallow the "creative scene" is becoming, in trying to become postmodern, they forget all about content | |
| Tarkio – Neapolitan Bridesmaid Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I adore this song, despite the fact that it badmouths Camus | |
| The Smiths – This Charming Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song was in the film, 'the history boys' ..it seemed to fit perfectly |
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| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I just think it's about the human condition as a whole, after all, we are all constantly missing oppertunities to speak up, to act, to do something to alter the course of history, and the life of the induvidual. I think Mr bird is saying (very poetically, with many a referances that i wont go into) that as humans, we shape our own futures, we "bend our bow" at one angle, one angle out of a dizzying array of possibilities. but i'm probably way off... |
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| Blonde Redhead – Dr Strangeluv Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Mein Furher, I can walk!! sorry, it has nothing whatsoever to do with this lovely song, I just couldn't resist! |
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| Blonde Redhead – Dr Strangeluv Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Mein Furher, I can walk!! sorry, it has nothing whatsoever to do with this lovely song, I just couldn't resist! |
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| Sufjan Stevens – A Good Man Is Hard to Find Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The last verse I feel is the misfit's sense of apathy and acceptance in the possibility of an afterlife. Of course, Sufjan, like O'conner is deeply religious, and this is probably just my crackpot theory, the the last verse may be when the misfit himself is dying, he was able to "put of all his grief" in life "If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him." the "so i go to hell" may be some sort of spiritual epiphany at the end of his life, realizing, that jesus did raise the dead, which the misfit is highly skeptical of, since he never belives anything that he doesnt see. and about the "someon'e left me creased" One can tell at the end of the story, that the scincerity that the grandmother shows the misfit frightens him, he actually recoils from her and shoots, most likely unable to deal with these emotional experiences. But he's deeply affected by it, "creased", one may say :] Compare: "No pleasure but meanness," which the misfit says in the begining of his conversation with the grandmother to "It's no real pleasure in life." after he shoots her and bobby lee comments about how fun it is to kill. the misfit seemed to truely see murder as something nessecary, not something fun, despite what he said to the grandmother, and the true compassion that she showed him most likely shook his whole belief system. well, there's my two cents ...but i'm probably wrong |
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