| Man Man – Top Drawer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with rancador, slightly. I heard half-boy half- horse head. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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by Leblanc on 01-28-2008 @ 05:18:38 PM 4-H is like the small stone. thrown into the pond. Eventually the impact of that one. small object reaches far away shores. thats what i got...if that makes any sence at all i asked that too |
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| Sufjan Stevens – No Man's Land Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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someone want to explain the signifigance of 17/4 time? im actually in music classes, but i dont know why the time signature really matters, or how you notice a differance. i can tell between 3/4 and 4/4 but other than that.... also i like this song a lot the earth doesnt belong to anyone, it doesnt belong to those who inhabit it, and it doesnt belong to us who destroy it. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i personally dont really believe in christianity, but i still find this song to have a beautiful meaning. i think about it this way: if a song is about greek myths i dont hate it because i dont believe in them, but i enjoy the poetic nature of the religion, and enjoy the fact that i can referance the song to things that i can easily learn about. i asl think that this song is beautifully sounding, and i think that meanings are reletive, so if you do not apprciate a certain message, try and apply it to your life. songs are not meant to have a single meaning, if they were, this site would not be nearly as popular. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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thanks Leblanc, that makes sence, and i like the way that adds to the meaning. i think that the previously mentioned idea of reacting childlike, bringing trinkets and such is also a viable idea. i think that this song is just beautiful. loveses the sufjan |
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| Guster – Manifest Destiny/Sorority Tears Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i always thought it was 'but the LEADERS have the lead." i thought it was a political statment that people with large dreams and hopes are not the ones leading us, instead its a bunch of old men who know how to lead, but not where. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Anyone know what the 4H stone is? As well I apologize for the long-ness but I’m doing this song for an English assessment anyway so I figure ill put in my 2 cents. Personally, I view this song as being set in an old fashioned country setting. I listened to this for the first time after watching the village and thus I view it as a setting like that. The ‘shirt tucked in and shoes untied’ part depicts, I think, a standard of dress, but one that is now being neglected, first due to fear, then due to the sadness of the speaker. I think he is neglecting the little things, because he does not have enough will to concentrate on such things. I believe it is used to show the grief he feels. This song is a story about a loss of someone on Casimir Pulaski Day, a holiday in Illinois. There are different characters like any story: the speaker, the subject (for my purpose I am going to say it is a woman, disagree with me if you will), her father, her mother, and the nurse (though she is only mentioned to express the setting) As cancer is usually hereditary I think that her mother died of the same cancer that the girl died from, because of the fact that she was only mentioned as being in a picture. The part about her letter makes me think that she was writing a final goodbye as she felt she was going to die soon. Sadly, she was right. Her father, I feel, is a bitter man who is religious, though is having a rough time feeling as such because of the death of his wife, and now the imminent death of his daughter. “Your father cried on the telephone and he drove his car into the Navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry” I think this part shows that he is feeling empty and hurt and thus reacts strictly in anger and in fear of loosing his daughter. ”In the morning, through the window shade When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade I could see what you were reading” This shows how he is noticing the small things that this girl is doing, things that he, now that he has lost her, misses. “Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body but nothing ever happens” This is an inner struggle that he is having when, the faith he has been told to trust in his entire life, is not pulling through in the way he wishes. It could be him doubting his faith, though I doubt that is it. I think he is just questioning why. ”I remember at Michael's house In the living room when you kissed my neck And I almost touched your blouse In the morning at the top of the stairs When your father found out what we did that night And you told me you were scared All the glory when you ran outside With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied And you told me not to follow you” She has a strict father and knows she will be in trouble for being with him in such a way, and thus, out of fear, attempts to push him away. ”Sunday night when I cleaned the house I found the card where you wrote it out With the pictures of you mother On the floor at the great divide With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied I am crying in the bathroom” I think the card may be a final goodbye to him. She feels that she is going to die soon, and knows her father would be angry at them being together so perhaps it is a termination of their relationship as well. I agree with what has previously been said about the great divide being the divide between life and death, with him standing at one side, and her crossing over, him unable to follow her. ”All the glory that the Lord has made And the complications when I see His face In the morning in the window All the glory when He took our place But He took my shoulders and He shook my face And He takes and He takes and He takes “ I think this is him speaking about how god is taking his life and ‘shaking’ it. He is questioning, I think, if the trade between the cross and the loss he is feeling now is a fair one. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| also i agree it doesnt have to be romantic love. i think of it as such, again because of myself, and my experiances, but i alsp think that it is about loving a place, and idea, a feeling. i think it depicts the love of freedom above anything else, and this song is the search for that freedom, however it is that you find it. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song always makes me want to cry. i think i love it because i identify with it so much, and it expresses a need i have always felt to just pick up and go, just to leave all of my mistakes behind. 'I made a lot of mistakes In my mind, in my mind ' i think this part is showing that his mistakes are not really mistakes, and that he did not fully have the blame. If I was crying In the van, with my friend It was for freedom From myself and from the land for me that means that he is finnaly realising that he doesn't want to to be part of the land, the place where he has always been, this earth, where he made so many mistakes. i think it means that he is crying out, not neccesarily crying. it depicts a group realisation (with my friend) that they are tied down to the earth and crave a freedom from society, rules, the need for physical succes. We sold our clothes to the state I don't mind, I don't mind I made a lot of mistakes In my mind, in my mind i think that this shows the willingness to part from physical things to gain that better understanding of himself. as i said this is just me, and it is reflective of personal experiances and desires. may i also say that myopinionisafact on the first page, with his drug induced meaning of abortion. I LOVE you that was killer funny. i like died when i read that. but your right, it makes sence if you ignore common sence xp |
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| Sufjan Stevens – We Won't Need Legs to Stand Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think that this song is not neccesarily about death to christians, but to people in general. i personally view the legs as humanistic wealth, this 'of the flesh' as i am so often told about. it speaks of death as the loss of a need for those things, that when we die we wont need the things that hold us to this earth, and thus 'we give a change at last'. this is, of course, only my personal opinion. i veiw meaning to be reletive to the individual reading/ listening, and so a song can have thousands of meanins, and not any of them the meaning the writer was originally attempting to convay. there are, i admit, many christian connotations to this, and many other of his songs, but that is natural, as songs are a reflection of the writer. i still go by what i said, that this does not neccesarily have to be about heaven, but could be about the loss of physical things that we value, but will all eventually loose. |
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