| Bob Dylan – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Elephant Range mentioned that Bob sought to make his songs more versatile than specific. I think looking at it from a non-historical perspective, this song is about the author taking the virginity of a young girl without realizing it. It sounds like she was way more invested in the relationship than he, because she was young, inexperienced, and naive. He thought they would have just a fling and she thought they would last forever. I think she kept her virginity a secret: "But you said you knew an' I took your word" until after the deed, when she "told [him] later and [he] apologized." I think the refrain implies that the girl had to learn some time "You just did what you're supposed to do," and it might as well have been with him, as he actually did care about her when they had sex. | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| much like the one in the last word of that post.. my apologies | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I dreamed you were a cosmonaut of the space between our chairs and I was a cartographer of the tangles in your hair I sighed a song that silence brings it's the one that everybody knows oh everybody knows the song that silence sings and this was how it goes these looms that weave apocryphal they're hanging from a strand these dark and empty rooms were full of incandescent hands an akward pause a fatal flaw time it's a crooked bow oh time's a crooked bow in time you need to learn to love the ebb just like the flow grab hold of your bootstraps and pull like hell, 'til gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go as if you lack the proper chemicals to know the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low time oh time it's a crooked bow time's a crooked bow fifty-five and three-eighths years later at the bottom of this gigantic crater an armchair calls to you yeah, this armchair calls to you and it says that some day we'll get back at them all with epoxy and a pair of pliers as ancient sea slugs begin to crawl through the ragweed and barbed wire you didn't write, you didn't call it didn't cross your mind at all and through the waves the waves of a.m. squall you couldn't feel a thing at all your fifty-five and three-eighths tall fifty-five and three-eighths tall those are the complete, correct lyrics. there are just a couple of little miistakes |
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| Missy Higgins – The Wrong Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Cestirene, I think the line you mentioned: Yet hold me against the light Can you see any bullet inside? You wouldn't find one if you magnified 'cuz you've got the wrong girl is meant to contradict the line before, which leads the reader to believe that, like mel-luvs-tle said, missy feels no reason to keep carrying on because she is so disappointed and jaded. This line, to me, says that although she feels that way now, anyone that really knew her would see that she is going to bounce back and get over it eventually. Bullet wounds are permanent, at least to some degree. I think she's saying that if you took the time to get to know her or understand her situation ("hold her against the light"), you would see that as agonizing as her disappointment is, she's not the kind of girl to let it change her for good. |
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| Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire – Case in Point Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Some of these lyrics are wrong. The ones under this song title on Andrew Bird's solo page are correct. | |
| Andrew Bird – Case in Point Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"And you know it's all just par for the course But you blame it on some non-existent force" Going along with the religious imagery, I think that this line negates the idea of an omniscient God that controls everything. I think he's saying that people do not take enough credit. Blaming or accrediting life-changing events to something that may or may not even exist (he obviously believes it doesn't) gives people the false concept that life is beyond them and what happens just happens, regardless of their actions. Also, the lyrics are on the Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire page as well, but they're incorrect. |
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