| Grizzly Bear – Marla Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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@greed22 AWESOME interpretation. Here's mine. The singer is this Mr. Forbes' housekeeper, assistant, mistress, or even wife - a woman who lives with him/under his roof [and is in love with him, whether overtly or secretly]. He wants to move away/leave her, so she resorts to hiding/discarding/destroying some of his belongings, in order to detain him [seeing as: 1) if she lives there and must know her way around the house; 2) the likes of a cello or harp aren't easily misplaced]. While this sounds like an impishly funny act of mischief, its utter conspicuousness actually denotes a sad sense of despair - she is basically admitting her inferiority to a bunch of inanimate objects - he could well go without her, but he "can't go without that". So we get an ironic mix of childish denial and resignation, of hopelessness and the bittersweet empty gratification of petty revenge. Hope that makes sense. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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to me, the whole album seems to bear a certain sense of shame that joanna is trying to overcome elegantly and poetically, for some "unwholesome" relationship she's been in. i may be completely off-track, but that's the feeling i get: in "emily" when it's suggested that people are talking behind her back; in "sawdust and diamonds" when she guiltily succumbs to desire and struggles to feel unapologetic; in "only skin" through and through; while in "cosmia" she seems to reach a resolution. but only in "monkey & bear" does she embrace that shame. i think "monkey & bear" the most beautiful song, because i gotta have me a metaphor. it so reminds me of orwell's "animal farm". :)) i think claudel22's interpretation about true freedom is flawlessly perceptive, it put a big smile on my face. but i have my very own interpretation to it - or rather, how it relates to my own experience. i had my very first boyfirend at 20. i'd waited till then, but it was truly worth it. all the depression, frustration and suspicions of abnormality melted. it was the same for him. the circus we escaped was that of emotional strain and loneliness. we'd finally found someone who understands. we were (and are) university colleagues, we had (and have) pretty much the same aspirations, hence we believed we could build a life together. i had some huge issues with school - i was all over the place, i couldn't bring myself to study properly, and i had a very boisterous way about me. which led his family (the "village people") to think ill of me. all the while, i was begging "darling, there's a place for us/ can we go before i turn to dust?", and he kept bidding me to "sing, dance" (i.e. be proper) for "he was afraid of spelunking down in those caves". eventually, i had him listen to this song. it took some explaining (joanna's lyrics don't exactly "do it on the first date"), but he understood. he really understood. he didn't turn out to be the bitter and prejudiced monkey, and i didn't end up burying my teeth. we're still together, happy, full of hope and stronger than ever. thank you, joanna. THANK YOU. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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to me, the whole album seems to bear a certain sense of shame that joanna is trying to overcome elegantly and poetically, for some "unwholesome" relationship she's been in. i may be completely off-track, but that's the feeling i get: in "emily" when it's suggested that people are talking behind her back; in "sawdust and diamonds" when she guiltily succumbs to desire and struggles to feel unapologetic; in "only skin" through and through; while in "cosmia" she seems to reach a resolution. but only in "monkey & bear" does she embrace that shame. i think "monkey & bear" the most beautiful song, because i gotta have me a metaphor. it so reminds me of orwell's "animal farm". :)) i think claudel22's interpretation about true freedom is flawlessly perceptive, it put a big smile on my face. but i have my very own interpretation to it - or rather, how it relates to my own experience. i had my very first boyfirend at 20. i'd waited till then, but it was truly worth it. all the depression, frustration and suspicions of abnormality melted. it was the same for him. the circus we escaped was that of emotional strain and loneliness. we'd finally found someone who understands. we were (and are) university colleagues, we had (and have) pretty much the same aspirations, hence we believed we could build a life together. i had some huge issues with school - i was all over the place, i couldn't bring myself to study properly, and i had a very boisterous way about me. which led his family (the "village people") to think ill of me. all the while, i was begging "darling, there's a place for us/ can we go before i turn to dust?", and he kept bidding me to "sing, dance" (i.e. be proper) for "he was afraid of spelunking down in those caves". eventually, i had him listen to this song. it took some explaining (joanna's lyrics don't exactly "do it on the first date"), but he understood. he really understood. he didn't turn out to be the bitter and prejudiced monkey, and i didn't end up burying my teeth. we're still together, happy, full of hope and stronger than ever. thank you, joanna. THANK YOU. |
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| Radiohead – Arpeggi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| to begin with, i believe it's obvious thom's actually not saying "we're fishes" (that sounds really funny though, and don't get me started on ALL i mishear from thom's purposely muffled accent) but "weird fishes", since the title of the track on the record says "weird fishes/arpeggi". secondly, i don't know about the search for god, to me it sounds more like someone obsessively and slef-distructively infatuated with someone whose eyes haunt them, to the extent where they get lost in it and would go to any lengths. yes, for a bloody pair of eyes. i'm only saying this because i myself have had the rather uplifting yet daunting experience of being almost literally dragged around by the eyes of mean little person who was out to break my heart, but of whom i was not wary. "everybody left if they got the chance", but i just stared back, hypnotized, waiting to "get eaten by the worms and weird fishes" as "i hit the bottom". so, there. | |
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