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| David Bazan – How I Remember Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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an allusion to the old west, tied to the train tracks type thing. He writes his good deed down, that's all he remembers even though he may be doing terrible things at the same time. |
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| Josh Ritter – Idaho Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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he leaves the girl he loves, then gets a single word from her (in tangiers) and it reminds him of all he left behind in idaho (replace the masts with cedar trees, winds with gravel roads) |
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| Pedro the Lion – Promise Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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in terms of the last three lines "From what i've seen so far i can't believe my eyes, what a nice suprise": earlier in the song he says that Jesus is just not physical, he acknowledges that he isn't a purely physical being (his eyes don't tell him the whole truth) and Jesus fills needs outside the physical. |
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| The Soft Drugs – Brand New Name Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This may be a reference to the breakup of Pedro the Lion. He is talking about the problems he had with David Bazan that made impossible to be in a band with him, see also: fewer moving parts by david bazan. |
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| The Soft Drugs – The Pitch Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i see this as a tongue in cheek narrative. The narrator is telling a less fortunate person about how they can "make it," even in the face of adversity, but he offers no substantial help (somebody else will-"someone's bound to give you a break"). The narrator ends up being an evangelist, offering one solution to all of the guy's problems, somehow getting into a church will solve is problems ("here is what is in it for you"). The song is called "the pitch" because this is a basic structure of an evangelistic "pitch": you obviously have problems--come to my church and God will solve them for you. The emphasis is not on what it means to have faith and love God, but on what God can do for you. The narrator offers no real physical help for the person in need, it seems like he is merely trying to score points for God. |
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| David Bazan – Harmless Sparks Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My take: the song is critical of catholic standards of a chaste priesthood and nun(hood?). He points out how natural sex is, millions of small holes, and compares the weight (an apple--forbidden fruit) of the "sin" of natural sex ("harmless sparks") in the priesthood to the travesty of molesting alter boys. He also examines the impact of the Catholic policies: if sex is taboo then men will doubt their God given nature to have sex, doubting God's own creation--breaking down the family function that the Church was originally trying to protect. This is another attack from Bazan on the religious establishment. |
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| David Bazan – How I Remember Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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He is talking about his selective memory, especially when intoxicated, (you kinda remember talking to an attractive woman so in the morning you assume you were a stud) A camera lens only focuses on one part of what is happening, only one eye open. He focuses on what he wants to remember.
The red yellow black white stanza refers to the way people might know what the Bible says about God loving everyone, but we still look at the world with an ethnocentric persepective (we must spread democracy because our way is better than everyone else's), we only absorb a limited part of the Bible and ignore some of the broad meanings(love God, love others as yourself). |
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| David Bazan – How I Remember Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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He is talking about his selective memory, especially when intoxicated, (you kinda remember talking to an attractive woman so in the morning you assume you were a stud) A camera lens only focuses on one part of what is happening, only one eye open. He focuses on what he wants to remember.
The red yellow black white stanza refers to the way people might know what the Bible says about God loving everyone, but we still look at the world with an ethnocentric persepective (we must spread democracy because our way is better than everyone else's), we only absorb a limited part of the Bible and ignore some of the broad meanings(love God, love others as yourself). |
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| Pedro the Lion – The Fleecing Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The first stanza is an image alluding to Gideon (Christian Bible, Book of Judges). Gideon tested God multiple times through leaving a fleece on the grass and asking God to make the grass wet and the fleece dry in the morning, or the opposite, etc. This was all an excercise in building Gideon's faith to do great things for God. Bazan has a faith where he has doubted and tested God and each time he has ended up more sure of God's existence, "makes a fool of me". The song goes on to point out the futility of explaining his faith. It is a very personal and very strong belief even with doubt, but others are unable to understand personal faith through any explaination. He takes it one step further "I can't think it like I feel it and I don't feel a thing," indicating that he can't even fully explain his faith fully to himself, yet he still believes. Bob Dylan: "Faith doesn't have a name. It doesn't have a category. It's oblique. So it's unspeakable. We degrade faith by talking about religion." |
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