| The Innocence Mission – My Sisters Return from Ireland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is one of the deepest, most haunting and yet most encouraging songs I've ever listened to. Incredible. She's basically just talking about the fear of having to give an account of an utterly saturated experience. Sometimes we feel like we have to account for every experience and yet, there is a fear of cutting the experience short, distilling it for the consumption of others. What a great song. I love it! |
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| Iron & Wine – The Trapeze Swinger Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think this song is meant to make you cry. I think it is meant to make you frown, though. Clearly someone has died and we are listening to a survivor talk to the deceased., although it seems like there is a conversation between the two people, especially because of the first stanza. I think the second to last stanza is what puts everything in perspective. After reminiscing about life on earth and the reality that heaven is for the one of them, they admit that life on earth was "never meant to last" but that the crazy things that they saw and experienced before enumerated during the song, were expensive (meaning that they cost time and energy) and that they were good. What a lovely good-bye song. |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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flanaganja, I think you were right the first time. It's really about (to me) being limited by the body, it's flaws and limitations which keep him from "dancing with the one I love" being God. This theory seems especially plausible because he quotes a Isaiah 5:20 when he says, "I'm living in an age, that calls darkness light." The drum beat throughout and the lines really refer to walking through life, amid all the challenges that body, that is things which tether someone from fully engaging God (sin, mortality, finitude, loneliness, etc). Going with this, the final lines are basically a belabored prayer that God would bring him closer, and help him overcome the apparent fence between him experiencing true relationship with God, and just a surfacy relationship with God and resenting his body for damning him. Those last lines are the key to understanding the song really. It's about being set free from our bodies, from which we've all experienced a "tether" of limitation and not being quite able to do quite what we want to do (regarding morality and love.) What do you think? |
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