| Iron & Wine – Upward Over the Mountain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Iron & Wine – The Trapeze Swinger Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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shamgod is right it's great. I used to think like you that the angels aren't sincere. But a couple days ago I ran into an old friend and she was just beautiful and we talked for a while and then she left and as soon as she was gone those lines hit me. She was an angel and our handshake/time together was great and it was over too soon. So now I take it that way. The angel and the sinner is in that long list of opposites at the end that I take as a bunch of comparisons to Sam and the girl. Sam's the sinner ("if I make the pearly gates") and the girl is the angel. |
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| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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well in light of djfrisk's post this song takes on a whole new incredible meaning IMO, i still agree the song can legitimately be understood as shortandsweetem analyzed, altho to me the line "pour a little salt..." recalls conquerors sowing fields with salt to make the infertile, and so to sow the fledgling relationship with salt to kill in before it ever happens, which anticipates the cutting of the ropes Now the other interpretation. Imagine that Bon Iver has had a terrible, horrible break up years ago and his "skinny love" is a new girl he is beginning to see. and it is also important that in this scenario bon iver's relationship with the skinny love is ruined by his long ago breakup First, he hopes they can make it a whole year since it is so hard for him to keep a relationship together. Then he TOLD her that SHE had to be the patient, balanced, etc. partner in the relationship. And in the morning he will be better, no longer haunted by the ghosts of the past that come out at night perhaps, and in this way the morning will be a different "kind" in quotes. "suckle on the hope in lite brassiere" a wonderful line, combining maternal love (suckle) and conjugal love (lite brassiere) into an expression of how bon iver hopes that with this love he can bury his past. now i propose that the speaker changes. I would argue that the lines from "now all your love is wasted..." until the end are spoken by ms. skinny love herself who does not understand bon iver's internal struggles. his love has been wasted on his former love, no one will love him when is stuck in the past, no one can fight his past for him and he will fall far behind this leaves the speaker of the the second appearance of the "i told you to be..." section interestingly ambiguous, it could be bon iver telling her again and again that he needs her to be the rock, or it could be ms. skinny love telling him that she needs a rock of her own.... who can tell? :) |
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| Bon Iver – Flume Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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here's what i get from the lyrics... he is playing an Icarus figure (Icarus who flew too close to the sun and his wings melted and he fell to his death). Icarus fell from the sky and left his dad, Daedalus, in the air. Bon Iver fell from his mother's womb and left his mother, the moon, at home. Icarus fell into the sea, this could help explain the "i move in water, shore to shore" but i'm not sure how so basically, I see that he fells like he's got no home, he fell from his mother when he did not want to and he survives (rather than living and thriving) at best warily ("leery"). |
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