| Okkervil River – For Real Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Goddamnit. Nevermind. | |
| Okkervil River – For Real Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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That link cut off. Sorry. It's http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=interview_sheff |
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| Okkervil River – For Real Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Insipid's right. It's not about murder. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=interview_sheff sez: "I think people misinterpret “For Real” because it’s not supposed to be about murder at all. It’s a lot more about sexuality than it is about violence. But nobody seems to have cottoned to that. Which is not surprising. Hopefully it’s not just about sexuality; there’s a level of—wanting to smash your head into the wall to make sure it’s real? You know what I mean? God, a couple months ago I tripped and I smashed my face up and I really fucked up my glasses and I haven’t been able to close them since. And I caught my eye and smashed my lip up and I got this deep-tissue bruise. And it was the first time I felt a very severe degree of pain out of nowhere, really suddenly—this is long after I wrote “For Real”… But there was really no mistaking it. That was a very real sensation. You have these moments where you’re like—Do I like this girl? Do I love this girl? Or do I just like her? Do I want a ham sandwich or do I want a turkey sandwich? Are my political beliefs just somebody else’s beliefs that I’ve simply adopted or are they what I really think? But when your head is smashing into the concrete you don’t have that kind of question about whether it’s a real sensation. And ultimately, that’s what’s going to unmake us all—smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade. And I think that we want it, on some level. Or some people want it, maybe. Or we don’t want it but we wonder about it and we wonder about who we’ll be in that situation and what it will do to us. And then there’s a certain sexualization to that which is very mysterious. To me, “For Real” has a lot more to do with that than it does as some dumb 'murder song.'" |
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| SoKo – Take My Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't like this song, but I do, however, love it's clever placement in the EP. After listening to "I'll Kill Her," being instantly confronted with a song so tender and soft as this one is pretty damn ironic. | |
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