| Belle & Sebastian – If She Wants Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Just an interesting tidbit to this song, when Stuart was younger this semi-famous radio show in Scotland had a contest. They asked their fans to write them a letter, with the best letter getting a prize. Stuart decided to interpret it his own way, and wrote a song called "A Letter," and sent it off. So when he sings "I wrote a letter on a nothing day," he means a song called "a letter," though of course the meaning goes past the literal. And his hopes were in the one envelope he sent it away in, hence the next line. He never heard back from the radio people. I read these details in the band's biography "Just a Modern Rock Story." |
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| Iron & Wine – In Your Own Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Just put this up today. It's track 2 from Sam Beam's unreleased sessions. I love this song and highly suggest it to anyone who loves Iron & Wine. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Has there ever been a more defiant lyric in the universe than: Whoa the misanthropi topical arrangement that is met with a shark bite by the terminal patient- that's me. So great. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think the pitcher/catcher motif is a stretch at all. Like many great writers before him, Murdoch is not afraid to go into the gutter for a clever pun (see also: Shakespeare). What makes him so amazing is that he can be at all levels, sometimes simultaneously, and create art that's beautiful, hilarious, and sad. Now, I have a theory for you. I think Piazza is the catcher in both senses of the word, and I think the pitcher is his boyfriend, in Stuart's (the narrator's) imagination. Take this line: "He knows the drink affects his speed..." Sexually, if someone's a pitcher, we know what that implies, and those of us gentlemen out there know how alcohol can affect the speed at which we perform...which would be an insanely clever lyrical turn by Murdoch, because we immediately assume it's the velocity of a baseball pitcher. I wholeheartedly agree that "Miss Private" is a closet gay man, afraid to leave his normal life. |
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| Iron & Wine – Muddy Hymnal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| the woman, I meant to say, is the long-lost violin. | |
| Iron & Wine – Muddy Hymnal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A broken bow Across a long lost violin To me, the man is the broken bow, and the long-lost (dead) violin. Together, at one time, they combined to form something beautiful, and when she died, he was left without a crucial element of his life. In his despair, he became broken. |
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| Iron & Wine – Promising Light Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the correct version is "TO tussling in the waves." What that means is that the narrator, Beam, preferred the greater, unknown world, the sea, to the safety of shallow water, the waves, which represent a normal relationship. As to this stanza: Time and all you took only my freedom to fuck the whole world. What's he remembering are the reasons why he wanted to leave this girl in the first place...it's common, the way a man thinks he's closing off options to himself when in a steady relationship. In that sense, we can take "fuck" literally...the narrator says it with sarcasm because he realizes now how unfulfilling and foolish that idea is, but at the time, he imagined she was limiting him from other women, other chances...that's what she "took," but he realizes now it wasn't taken anything much at all. And: Promising not to look Promising light on the sidewalk girls That should, I think be taken as one sentence..."promising not to look promising light on the sidewalk girls." Meaning, he had to promise his girl not to look promisingly on other girls they passed, which again shows that during the relationship, he was always looking outward for something better. And then this gorgeous one: Time and all you gave There on your cross that I never saw Well beyond the waves Dunking my head when I heard you call His constant disdain for her, his rejecting her love, looking elsewhere, considering other paths, was putting her on a cross, torturing her. And the second half of that, I think, can be both metaphorical and literal. Whenever she wanted him, reached out to him, he would duck his head in an effort to escape instead of answering her love. |
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