| The Antlers – Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The trouble of writing a song that involves abortion is that that word immediately polarizes people and politicizes your intentions. The abortion is just a part of the story. The story of the song, as far as I can see, is that a young couple conceive a child but decide to have an abortion, not because they're worried about how they're going to take care of it, but because despite all of the love they thought they had for each other, they know that neither of them is prepared to spend the rest of their lives together at this point. The abortion has occurred, but nothing will ever be the same because they both understand now that their love wasn't as deep as they thought it was. |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have my own interpretation that I've been working on for a while. Despite what you would think, the song is structured as a linear progression of events: It begins with someone in a dream, the person's dream is interrupted at a crucial moment when they wake up. They get ready and get on the bus, and just as the song says, they go back into their dream. This time, the dream rides out to it's natural completion. But what does that mean exactly? Well, it's about everyday enlightenment. The human consciousness can do great things and go to incredible places. Some people do it with religion, some people do it with drugs, and everyone does it in dreams. The song is about the disparity between everyday life and the incredible reaches that we can climb in our own head. So even on the bus in the morning, as you slump over asleep with a cigarette in your hand, your soul can speed to the out of the universe at a million miles per hour. Y'know, or something like that. |
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