| The Shins – Fighting In A Sack Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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oh and i also liked lucywhat's comment. |
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| The Shins – Fighting In A Sack Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I see the song more like dcov28. Of course, I’m Catholic so my religious opinions influence how I interpret the song. I think it is about anti-religion, but to me, it is talking about the pit falls of being anti-religion or without faith. Specifically I love what dcov28 said about “because we know our fate and that’s a lot to put us through” Because if you were and atheist, you know you fate is to die–and that’s it. No after life. No heaven. I believe in heaven and if I didn’t feel confident in that belief I would be ‘huddled up in fear and hate too”. How depressing would it be to know that this is it. We have one life and then..that’s it. Now I’m no expert on the artists of the shins. I don’t look up what they believe because I like to customize the songs meanings for what they mean to me but with the line–“most ideas turn to dust as there are few in which we trust.” I can’t help but think of how a lot of philosophies and religions lack staying power but monotheistic religions have been around for quite some time now. So they are the few that can be trusted And maybe the narrator has been “shedding all of” the ideas he can’t trust–the new-age fads or his disbelief in religion. With the line “and leave our fathers fighting in a sack, cause we are way too wise-assed for that” I think the narrator is mocking the kids that are anti-referring to the kids who rebel from their parents or religion just for the sake of it, not because they don’t believe in God. The kids become “marionettes”. Kids who left religion to avoid conforming to it and conformed to atheism instead. “We've taken on a climb, and it's long enough to put the best of us on our backs” May be referring to the hopelessness and the heartbreak that comes with abandoning God. Now that they have chosen a path without God, they are on their own and even the best of us can’t handle that. The path is “a bridge with weakening cables”–it seems like a strong, bold decision at the time but it loses it’s appeal because it doesn’t have a foundation (a beliefless belief system, you know?) I also agree that Christianity is not at all nice and neat. And I liked how dcov28 pointed that out. It would be simpler to believe that when we die, we are dead. And that is all. But to open your mind to the idea of a higher power is a harder thing to do once you are older and capable of individual thought. Okay so that is just what the song means to me, clearly a very different opinion to most of the people that have commented |
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| Dispatch – The General Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| oops didn't realize i already commented. | |
| Dispatch – The General Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| anna and other "anti-war" people--i really don't think there is anyone is pro-war. nobody wants war. that's illogical. but this is earth and not heaven. war is reality and, unfortunatley, it is often necessary. and that is what makes this song so powerful. it isn't about being "anti-war". the General doesn't like war (who does?) and doens't want the young men to go through it. but he knew he had to "do his own duty", someone has to and he would rather it was him. brilliant. | |
| Ben Folds – Golden Slumbers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i really love ben folds music, but paul's voice is so essential to the beatles' golden slumbers. ben's voice just doesn't have that power. but that is one of my favorite parts of his music. his voice is so simple. perhaps he should have covered a beatles song with less focus on powerful vocals | |
| Elvis Costello – I'm Not Angry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think this guy and girl are into eachother and the girl is trying to get a rise out of him by being with other guys. but he doens't wnat to give her that satisfaction by being jealous (even though he is) and might be implying that he has done the same to her because he says "there is not such thing as original sin"--like he did it first. | |
| Dispatch – The General Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this general is going into battle. nobody likes war. but it is necassary and it is his job. and he does it. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Underground Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| to me this song DOESN'T mean* | |
| Ben Folds Five – Underground Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| to me this song means 'when you don't fit in with the crowd grab your comabt boots' like themobnymph. I think it is kind of satirical. If people aren't like the "cool" crowd they become exactly what the hate...people that pretend they are something they aren't. No one is really like that, just like no one is really like the "cool" kid. At least to me, the song is ironic. | |
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