| The Smashing Pumpkins – To Forgive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The other commenters are definitely right about how it is about a child already knowing his life was doomed to be bad... and I am so interested in the comment DSLewis left about Billy Corgan's childhood memory that led to this song. What I always thought it was about, when I first listened to it, though, was a child realizing that he was going to die, the same way everyone born is going to die. I thought the bad thing he inherited from his family (and from all humans) was mortality. A very depressing view, I know. I remember listening to this song and "Galapogos" from the same album alone in my room in a beach house my family rented, and I don't know if I have ever felt so much from music as I did right then. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The book is definitely The Mists of Avalon! I read this article excerpt a while ago when I was devouring all things Newsom-related, and just a little while ago I started reading The Mists of Avalon. Ys is mentioned on the first page, and then, when I read the later passage that included "that damnable bell," I knew it had to be it! The "damnable bell" line is something Morgaine in the novel thinks about the convent and all of its ringing bells. |
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| Amanda Palmer – What's The Use Of Wond'rin' (feat. Annie Clark) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I had to turn it up to hear the crying, but now I do. And then I looked at the official website pictures. And now I'm creeped right out! |
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| Joanna Newsom – Swansea Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I read these lyrics, I suddenly got the idea that they were about fish/underwater creatures swimming along on the shores of deserted places, and asking people to come on down to gnaw on their bones means coming down into the sea to drown, like sailors. I think that Bearpaw's comment that "chew and chew and chew" is imitating train sounds makes a lot of sense. That line really confused me before! |
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| Rufus Wainwright – The Tower of Learning Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is so thrilling when it gets to the "All the sights of Paris," I agree! I think that copious is such an unusual word to use in that sentence. For a long time I thought I must have heard it wrong. I really love this song. I think one of my favorite things about it is the low backup singing voices in between the verses. It reminds me of monks singing, yet sounds really beautiful. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – The Consort Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always thought that it might be about a man because of the alternate meaning of the word "queen," but on closer listening it seems to me it could be about a medieval scenario or something a little more complex than a straight-forward love song. The throne thing seems to me like it's just a comment about the fact that he is not the queen's king (i.e. equal), but instead just the consort. Since consorts are non-royal people who marry monarchs, but can't rule with them, they would have smaller thrones and less power than their lover. I think this song is about being in love with someone who is very special or important, so their lover feels insignificant, but still happy and lucky to have a chance to be with the powerful one. The line "no more to hide" sounds like he wants to be acknowledged by the world as the "queen's" love and know that he/she is not ashamed of the relationship. Anyway, I really like this song! The tune and the quiet music are so peaceful, and it makes me imagine a gorgeous medieval scenario even if that isn't the point. |
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