| Dave Rawlings Machine – I Hear Them All Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a really beautiful song, probably my favorite on FoaF. Thematically, it reminds me of Sheryl Crow's "Redemption Day". However, the lyrics are not correct as currently posted. It doesn't look like one can insert proper markup in these comments, so the corrections are in CAPS. Not meant to be shouting or rude, just to highlight the corrections. One's I'm not certain of are marked with (?). ... Hear them crying out for heaven's own BENEVOLENCE upon them HEAR/OUR(?) destructive POWER PREVAILING, I hear fools falsely hailing To the crooked wits/WORDS(?) of tyrants when they call ... I hear the sound of TEARING pages and the roar of burning paper ... I hear the tender words from Zion, I hear Noah's waterfall See the gentle LAMB OF JUDAH[1] SLEEPING at the feet of Buddha And the prophets from Elijah to the OLD PAIUTE WOVACA[2] Take their places at the table when THEY'RE CALLED ... [1] http://hubpages.com/hub/judah [2] http://viewzone2.com/wovokax.html |
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| Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like others above, I interpret this this song to be a reaction to her critics and/or her own self-criticism. Given the timing of the album after the OBWAT soundtrack success, it seems quite possible she was feeling some resentment coming from the Nashville establishment. Regarding the lyrics themselves, I thought the line was "Driving the corn in, and all the spindles whine", with the spindles being part of some sort of mechanical harvester. She really slurs the syllables together so it's hard really say for sure, but that hearing makes the most sense to me... |
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