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The Dear Hunter – The Pimp and The Priest Lyrics 17 years ago
oh also. i think a man is saying "faster" and ms. terri is saying "save me" and then the man says "harder" and she replies with "i can't breathe!" like they are having a conversation. or maybe these are just her thoughts

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The Dear Hunter – The Pimp and The Priest Lyrics 17 years ago
conquer* oh shit i need a spelling lesson

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The Dear Hunter – The Pimp and The Priest Lyrics 17 years ago
"while the pimp and [the] priest prey quietly where the precious sinners sit."

no "the"


"Confessal confess" is definitely "confess, oh, confess"

"Faster, save me! (I’ve since remained [constant?]) Harder, I can’t breath!"

"Now the priest and the pimp are already equipped with an enigmatic frontage post, we welcome walk-ins" is what it is

and i believe it is "concur your sins while she screams on her back"

so yea! =D

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The Dear Hunter – The Inquiry of Ms.Terri Lyrics 17 years ago
i think this is about the boy growing up in the dime. i think the first person is another whore in the dime telling about the boy. ms. terri returns to the dime because she was unable to escape the city. she also needs to support her baby. as the boy grows, he learns to defend ms. terri from men trying to kill her.

"The object of affection, conflicted by convictions of indecency, sorority, corrupted by impropriety"

all the woman in the dime love the boy hence "object of affection and conflicted by convictions of...sorority"

but he's also corrupted by all that he sees in the dime.

"The cavalier, she holds of him, in dissonance with experience, a boy who grows, with knife in hand, to fend for her, becomes a man."

ms. terri expects her son to protect her always, calling him a "cavalier", even though this very statement disagrees with the fact that the boy has no experience with fending people off. but he learns with time, and becomes a man.

"But she plays fake affection, and carefully lacks subjection, to a gentleman"

she pretends to love a man when he comes in and pays for her, when obviously she doesn't.


"We dance around the truth, my dear I lie for you, but when I lie down, I’m simply lying to them too."

this is the first person view, of another woman in the dime, telling a man she will lie to him and tell him she loves him, when she lies in bed for him, she is lying. quite inventive thinking on casey's part.

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The Dear Hunter – City Escape Lyrics 17 years ago
"With a fondness for cooking history, revealing thoughts of Ms Terri." always thought he was saying "mystery" and maybe casey named her this for a reason?

"In the heat of the night, a woman wealthy of a parous plight erased a harlots life."
ms. terri has given birth before, "parous" meaning given birth twice or more and "plight" being a unfortunate situation, so i believe this is not the first time she has been pregnant. she is running away from the city to have this child and raise it, and she's trying to "erase" her life as a prostitute.

but i think the pimp/priest has set out his people to try and stop her from escaping, and they beat her and throw her in the river. or she can't get across the river and she is stuck there and they are coming after her still.

"Oh, but her breath escapes her.
Oh, but the pulse remains."

she stops breathing but she is still alive.

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The Dear Hunter – The Oracles on the Delphi Express Lyrics 17 years ago
i want to think it's a train because i always thought "express" was something to do with trains. and also, on the dear hunter website, there is a section called "the station" or something along those lines.

yet in the lyrics it says "Big steam ships, exits illustrate the flaw" so then again, maybe it's a ship?

"Don't be ashamed of your amore faux pas"
should be "amour" i believe. "faux pas" as a phrase in french means "false step" so his false step in love? this must be talking of the future, of ms. leading, unless anyone else has any other ideas?

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The Dear Hunter – Battesimo Del Fuoco Lyrics 17 years ago
it's "urie" and no it doesn't really resemble it at all.

great song, the harmonies and different voices sound amazing.

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The Dear Hunter – Black Sandy Beaches Lyrics 17 years ago
I think a lot of you are wrong. I think that there is someone reading these letter because they found them on the beach. i think the young man [dear hunter?] who was in love with ms. leading left her because she cheated/is a whore in a brothel and now he has found another woman

"Oh how she smiles from vicarious love from the one he writes about"

ms. leading is happy that he has found another woman, he has explained it to her in the letter, and she is just happy that he is in love again.

but when it says

"she must have been so glad for him to throw it out" i think that the young man left this other woman because he still loves ms. leading. and that's the second letter, he tells her he still loves her but they can't be together in which "she must have been so sad for him to throw her out" comes in to play. or maybe he is talking about the other woman.

and ms. leading just happens to be better off without the young man, because she can't take hurting him because of her profession.

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Automatic Loveletter – Eyes On You Lyrics 17 years ago
it goes:
i'm going to miss you
hold on to my heart
we'll make it through
and let it be known...

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