| Okkervil River – A Glow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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He's finally got her at the end of the album, after all those songs about his one-sided, frustrated love for her, and of her hopeless and unhappy love for the man that is a stone. She's light and alive because she's finally "killed" her feelings for the other man, and the black sheep boy is basically... reveling in the glory of it, and does so shamelessly by using language related to, well, murder! Or, the murder imagery is all part of a fantasy of his, and he doesn't really get her after all. He could just be saying that the only way he could ever get her in the end would be by killing the other man. And he could never do that, so the love is as hopeless as it was in the beginning, but... he can still have wild fantasies about it to appease himself. I am convinced it is a sad song! |
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| Okkervil River – Okkervil River Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I stared into the water, and the water it stared back" bears a striking similarity to Nietzche's quote, "If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you," or something like that. I feel the song does deal with a suicide, but a suicide on account of the river, or the "abyss," as an acknowledgment of the meaninglessness and hopelessness of life. But that doesn't seem to me what it is all about... Whatever, Will Sheff ladies and gentleman! *applause* |
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| Eisley – Come Clean Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| She doesn't trust him but she still wants to make something work. I guess that's what it seems to be on the surface! | |
| The Good Life – Heartbroke Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Bright Eyes and the Good Life always seem to have cool female guests... who sings the female part of the song? | |
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