| The Dresden Dolls – Boston Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| If I say N I M B R F T O feeling fast enough, it sounds like "And I am bereft of feeling." I am possibly crazy. | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Right up until the last verse, the song makes me think of someone becoming deaf due to a bomb going off. I don't know why. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Scientist Studies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay, I just spent half this night listening to this album piecing it all together. I think he's spending alot of time in his attic, thinking about the girl the album centers around, trying to figure out which memories of her are permanantly trapped in the house they lived in together. "I scrimped and I saved just to find that they've been splicing my inventions", I see as having a double meaning. One meaning, he tried and he tried for her only to find that other people had been changing her, taking her away from him. The other more literal and tying in with the next part. He remembers them struggling to pay utilities and such, leading to a lot of time between them trying to keep warm when the heat was off. I think the chorus means that he feels that she owes him something, that he still places her percieved debt to him upon her shoulders. But, at the same time, he wants to be friendly with her, if just because of the debt. To him, it's her first and last defense in a courtroom-style facedown he's imagined between himself and the girl in his head. Perhaps the second verse means that this all took place over four years. He was only invited to the wedding in Company Calls Epilogue as a formality, a friendly gesture, though he wasn't really meant to come, and he thought the whole situation meant more to her than it really did, his broken heart and her new addiction to her new husband. In finality, he finds that even this will be a memory integrated into the house, into the carpet fibers, and the chemicals that made him love her will eventually fade. Lastly, in the case he's made for her, this is his final defense. He's done fighting to win her back, and he's done trying to make his case against her. ... Or maybe I'm on crack. |
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