| The Blow – Parentheses Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song can be viewed as the separation and consolidation of mind and body. The first verse is about newage/buddhist/existentialist view of the I, the self.. meaning the mind. It even has a vague reference to yoga, "with the feet on the ground and the head to the sky". In the chorus, the lyrics go on to talk about this parentheses, but although you get a sense of two people, you also get a sense that there is only one person: "There's plenty space to encase whatever weird way my mind goes." Kind of like, her mind and her body. Where her mind goes is within the parentheses and does not exist in the physical world. The physical arms are the parentheses that cradle this person, baby, or herself, with understanding and compassion. Crying in a deli isle is not macho at all.. A very emotional person would cry at whatever they experience there. In this song it is very sweet and unconditional with the "of course i'll wrap my arms around you and walk you outside" (in the above lyrics it says 'you know' instead of 'of course'), and again the arms cradle with understanding only the more physical, neutral part of the self could provide. |
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