| Bright Eyes – Ship in a Bottle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I see the crying not as innocence and purity, but more as a loss of those things in a move toward responsibility. While I think the crying isn't essential, I think it works well. The line "We have built this ship in a wine bottle," seems to be a metaphor for a baby growing inside of the womb. Makes sense, right? And then "I want to be the surgeon that cuts you open, that fixes all of life's mistakes," suggests his longing to rid himself of responsibilities. The "mistake," if you buy the whole baby thing, is conception, and the "surgeon" is an abortionist. With "The worm in my heart . . ." it seems that the speaker realizes the responsibility and change that a baby will bring, but the girl wants to keep it. Then "Don't adore what is impossible," and "intangible" can also be seen as a demand to get rid of the baby (don't get too attached). "If you knew how it worked, we would have to grow old," finally, seems to say that if the girl knew the negative consequences of having abortion that she wouldn't, and then they would both have to be responsible and grow old. While the parallels I pointed out are significant, ultimately I think that this song is about growing up, growing old, having responsibilities, being a slave to circumstances, and so on. |
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| Bright Eyes – Everything Must Belong Somewhere Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's more than everything having its place. . . i'm sure that was the plan originally. . . but i think it's also a rejection of what is "natural." i especially get this from the last verse about the devil and God, as well as the genius in the padded room. i take that as people (and spirits, i guess) are forced into roles and outcasted if they don't conform to such roles. | |
| Bright Eyes – Bowl of Oranges Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Everyone always says that Conor's lyrics are depressing. . . and I can definitely see it, but to me they're just HONEST. Sometimes they're on the pessimistic side of realistic and sometimes on the optimistic side of realistic. This song, to me, is one of those opitmistic ones. The music is happy and beautiful, and what he says tells me that yes, this world can be shitty, but we can find so many good things in each other. It reminds me alot of Whitman (really all of Bright Eyes' songs, in their style and in their meaning) because it's all about our connection with each other. And, I thought about this after I had heard the song a million times, that it might be about tripping. Maybe not about, but inspired by. I know he's said that he does psychadelics (when I saw him in New Orleans he was talking about how he wrote one of the songs on Cassadega while on psychadelics). And if you've ever done acid, it kind of changes the way the world looks. . . "Everything seemed different, and completely new to me." And you're so interested in everyone and everything. . ."Each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet." Just a thought. |
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