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| Fleet Foxes – Montezuma Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This is introspective, about life and time, love and pleasure and passion, and the eventuality of death. It's a musing on the finite and tragic. I really think that Robin is a bit too developed to be commenting on current or political events. If anything, this is about politics in the ancient sense. That is, people of this and that kind, with our differences and our similarities. How do we live together? From Montezuma to Tripoli, we're all temporary, confined to something or someone, prisoners to time and place. I think there's a kind of idealistic hope here too. |
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| Alice in Chains – Nutshell Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I tend to agree with "Alicein1981" - we risk leveling all of the band's work if we say that every song is "about" addiction. Of course it influenced Layne and the group but when it came to sitting down and writing song or practicing new ideas and such, I cannot imagine them doing these thing because of heroin, or trying to repetitively explain the anguish and the greatness with every song. I think this song is very personal and has to do with drugs, media, attention/fame, life, and music. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Simple Things Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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the narrator doesn't want to be found, and makes elaborate statements allowing you to think you can find him. i don't think the heroin connection is strong enough. i think this is about how we're all alone and can't be found, do we want to be found? we're on our self-produced nod off. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Chickfactor Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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the chickfactor magazine connection provides some sense to some lyrics, and a title, but as with so many of their songs, one looks often for the broader implications they refer to. It's straightforward in it's self-doubt regarding love and eternity, perfection, vanity, longing. It's always that simple subject looked at seriously. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Seymour Stein Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Isn't this just brilliant? B&S can take a subject you think little about and make it shine for 4 minutes in the prettiest layers of melody. What a fantastic effort this is. Funny, nostalgic, complex but simple. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Ease Your Feet in the Sea Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is a beautiful and imaginative, evocative song, one that takes the listener to another place. It's a nostalgic and pensive narrative, not bright nor down, but reflective on experience, and one's survival against all that chatter. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – A Century of Fakers Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Lovely folk anthem. Nothing particularly new lyrically, and filled with all kinds of cliches, it remains original and beautiful, timeless and current. I really like how they almost question themselves singing how they may be participating themselves in another century of fakers and they comment on why and how. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – I Could Be Dreaming Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The above referenced lyrics are inadequate in several areas but I think most will be able to piece it together with the above. I agree with the last comment. This is about courage, and the other side of courage - why courage is necessary. We dream but in life, in everyone's, all these external forces exist as factors in your dreams and hopes, and that is inescapably human. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Down by the Seaside Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I am surprised nobody has noted the incredibly political nature of this work. First off, it is obviously an indictment of modern civilization and the modern society, as one against, in tension, or without connection with nature. Nature meant both as its own essential character, but also as the earth, seasons, and the whole which is all around us. There is a very agrarian-populist streak here and one should remember it is not strictly or explicitly democratic. Here what is celebrated is depending on and living with nature, "knownin' where their goin" because they can see their progress. They can feel it in the soil, in the community around them, in their family. Dependence for these things fosters appreciation of them, and the appreciation of time. Essential! |
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| Iron & Wine – The Sea and the Rhythm Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Only is the second line is suggestive of the explanation concerning a baby/mother relationship. As others have noted, it is deeply erotic and sexual, and can only be explained through its own metaphors, which persist. |
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