| A. A. Bondy – The Mightiest Of Guns Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I can't find any references to this elsewhere, but I can't listen to this song without thinking Bondy had Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian in mind. The title, the "murder boys", falling stars (the kid's birth)... but mainly the dancing bear and the grinding organ. Those two don't show up together too often. | |
| James McMurtry – Childish Things Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thanks for the lyrics, and it's good to see some comments too. This one's been going through my head on and off for the last few weeks. At first, I was understanding it about like shgdhshfds--just a song about growing older and finding your skin thicken a bit around the scars of life. But the more I replayed the lyrics in my head while sanding my old hardwood floor, the more I saw it like Susan does--this is a sad song. It's about dying while you're still alive. You can't ask for a more literal representation of selling out than "to sell all my stock and live on the coast." The phrase "childish things" comes from I Corinthians 13, the famous "Love is patient, love is kind" chapter. That reference serves to highlight the irony of suggesting that putting away childish things means only wanting a comfortable chair. What about the second verse? Seeing too much from the bus window, calling parents by first names, and not playing the game anymore. I follow the arc, but I don't have any specific insights into that verse. Calling his parents by their given names... as Aunt Clara did? Does he spend every other weekend with his aunt in the country? Great song. Leaves me wondering which is the true childish thing: heaven or ghosts. |
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