| The Middle East – Hunger Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song to me is The Middle East best, the "hunger" that this song is about is Spiritual or Existential hunger, it's about a desire to fill the void inside, to become whole again. The song begins as a mediation on the condition of spiritual hunger, I've got a hollow inside my stomach That I can't seem to fill With all the things That I believe I fill it with meat and I fill it with bread And I fill it with drink on a Saturday evening 'Til Sunday morning But I'm still hungry For something to fill me Ah, make me whole again So I won't be hungry anymore Anymore I fill myself intellectually with abstractions (beliefs, ideologies) I fill myself psychically with food and drink, with partying all night, but I'm still hungry, still wanting more, still looking out there to fill me, make me whole again, when what this personal should be doing is looking inward to become whole again. This is a basic tenant of Zen Buddhism, that the ego, the idea of self, separates us from the cosmos, it causes suffering also known as desire also know as hunger for anything to make us whole, so we look externally for something to fill our time, to fill the void. But if you took time to realize that the ego and that sense of self is actually an illusion and that you are one with everything, that wholeness can return. You can become whole again. The rest of the song is about a man who abuses his wife and little girl, a man who fills his spiritual hunger with drinking and violence. Who's wife comes home in the early morning grabs her little girl and takes off. The man now devoid of his outlet to express his frustrations, his demons, now is left with silence, is now alone to try and find a away to "fill his time" to find something for his "hands to fold on" then comes to realization about what his lost and now wants it back. |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – Love Is All Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's about the relationship, the communion of fisherman and fish. "I walk upon the river like it's easier than land Evil's in my pocket and your will is in my hand Oh, your will is in my hand" The Fly Fisherman walks through the water as easy as walking on land. The evil that's in their pocket is a knife or club used to kill the fish. The will that's in their hand is the fish caught on their line, the fish are being reeled in against their will. "And I'll throw it in the current that I stand upon so still Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill Oh, mine has learned to kill" When you fly fish it's important to stand still in the current so not to spook the fish. Most if not all the fisherman I know, fish because they love to do it, it brings them closer to nature. They have all learned to kill these animals at some point or have killed them. their hearts have learned to kill. "And now spikes will keep on falling from the heavens to the floor" The spikes are the fly's, the lures casting from the rod to the bottom of the river. "I bet this mighty river's both my savior and my sin Oh, my savior and my sin" Its his savior because he's closer to nature but it's his sin because he knows he'll kill the fish once he's caught it. "Oh, I said I could rise From the harness of our goals The fish rises to fly, the fisherman uses the fly to catch the fish. Its the harness of both their goals. Both their goals are to catch their prey. "Here come the tears But like always, I let them go Just let them go" Here come the tears, here comes the tragedy of killing. But like always the fisherman let's them go, out of love. This is a common thing in Fly Fishing most fisherman let the fish go, they only do it for the love of the sport and to hold the mystery and beauty of nature in the palm of their hand. Love is all. This also could be an allusion to Hemmway's Big Two-Hearted River |
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| Matthew Good Band – Apparitions Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's about television and how it controls and contorts are perceptions on life. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – I'm on Fire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Check out this cover http://www.myspace.com/harrymanx |
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| John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah terrible song Natasha this coming from someone who lists the Bangles and Cypress Hill as favourites, I puked a little in my mouth when I read that. | |
| Flogging Molly – Requiem For A Dying Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Put this song into the context of the American Revolutionary War and you got all types of meanings. | |
| Matthew Good – Odette Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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For those unfamiliar with the plot, Swan Lake relates a fairy tale of romance between Prince Siegfried, who has just turned 21, and the beautiful Odette, a princess condemned by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart to embody swan by day and woman by night; only true love can save Odette from permanent swan-dom. Siegfried is under pressure from his mother to find and marry a mate by the night of his birthday ball. Upon spying a flock of swans over a nearby forest, Siegfried follows only to be confronted by Odette; immediately he falls in love. By dawn, Von Rothbart comes to reclaim Odette, and she becomes a swan once again. On the night of Siegfried's birthday ball, the sorcerer arrives uninvited with a mystery guest: his daughter, Odile, who bears a striking resemblance to Odette. Fooled by the doppelganger, Siegfried asks for Odile's hand in marriage. Moments later, Siegfried is blindsided by a vision of the real Odette and realizes his grave mistake. I believe Jenny (his ex wife) is Odile and Matt is yearnig for a another woman or maybe Jen the woman he loved (before the divorce) to come save him. It makes sense to me ``Hey Midnight`` Odette the woman appears at night to save him. |
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| Josh Ritter – Monster Ballads Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with infinitepet85 about the Huck Finn reference. "And I was thinking about my river days I was thinking about me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway With every steamboat like a hymn" Josh is eluding to Cairo , Illinois , which was a major Steamboat port in the 19th Century. It also is the the destination of Huck and his Slave friend Jim in the Adventures of Huck Finn , they wanted to take a Steamboat north to freedom. |
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