| Monsters of Folk – His Master's Voice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| the "Calling Out" at the end is my new mantra | |
| The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've always heard "upwards to the vanguard, where the pressure is to *hide* under the microscope, hope against hope" i think of major drug companies hoping for a treatment to the disease vs. a cure and the vanguard of the drug company (head honcho) is lobbying the scientists to get on board with his profiteering agenda. On a completely different note, I think the "their just humans with wives and children" line, when combined with the lyrics from "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton", is meant to say that the developers of a cure are not God. Hooray for The Soft Bulletin |
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| Coldplay – Politik Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel a religious vibe too, I've seen the song as a contemplation on the concept of God. |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Waiting In Vain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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it's your love that i'm waiting on it's my love that you're runnin from |
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| Iron & Wine – Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like each verse attributes different identities to a common theme of greediness and the frivolous pursuit of profit/personal wealth. God is the greatest Democratic force (leader) because it has allowed humans to develop free-will. This view allows humanity to worship ugly replacements for God. I appreciate the value of the album artwork as a representation of a feral dog with a blood-stained mouth. God is the shepherd of life and the "wolves" are perpetuating over-indulgence and greed. The first verse depicts wolves on the hunt as they cross a street with a run down pawn shop selling a scrappy single bike tire, leaving poverty in the background. The next line (3) switches focus to present a personification of a woman making wrenching, tight-gripped, wringing motions with her hair representing her strength and power as seduces a "fucker" [Sam is harsh on the greedy man because he's commenting on how futile the accumulation of an ultimately "foreign" (ultimately not tendered or irrelevant when concerning God)] currency. Line 7 takes focus back to the wild dog by likening it to the song of sirens as the wolves express a recipe for disaster presented in the pleasant form of a song. The closing lines of the first verse pertain to the female character identified in lines 3 and 4 to accrediting the man able to renounce greed, the man with bravery. In the second verse, the wolves stroll through a town where God is worshiped but the people of the town (waiters) are following the siren's song and are completely occupied by/obsessed with their checks like a rooster is hypnotized by the sun. Just my thoughts, just what I was feeling at the time. I enjoy Mr. Beam's writing. |
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