| Between the Buried and Me – Camilla Rhodes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| with BTBAM's help, we will find art again | |
| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Feelings are the electricity/power of our humanity. This song is about living by your feelings and your heart and not necessarily the reasoned practical or responsible way. The kids are the people living life authentically, the adults live their lives with the lights out meaning their external projected image of themselves is coldly rational. but they aren't fooling anyone because we all know we commonly share the same humanity with the same passions and such. | |
| Wolf Parade – Language City Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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/facepalm Oh well, wild stab, I prefer my metropolis version. |
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| Wolf Parade – Language City Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I started by wondering what Language City is, but I had no idea so I decided to come back to that. The most apparent theme seems to be the observation of the repitition and meaninglessness of the modern life. Lines like "All this working Just to tear it down" demonstrate the perpetual cycle of building and rebuilding finite structures who's greatness never seems to last. This contributes to the sentiment among the workers that they're just "counting the hours" watching the clock go by at their unsatifying job. This brought me back to wondering what Language City was, we know it is a "bad, old place" "Where eyeballs float in space." I'm thinking it is the tower of Babel he is referencing - the biblical fable where man set out to build a structure to reach the heavens as a testiment to man's greatness but where God confused their common language in to many dialects to prevent them from completing the project. Eyes float in space might be referencing man's ambition to build into the stars and certaintly the biblical babel was "old and bad" in God's eyes. Not saying this song has a Christian meaning or that the band is religious. but I think he is taking God as representing objective good and man's ambitious and perpetually failing effort to build the greatest city as being an empty pipedream that attempts to defy that objective good. So the song traces the evil/pointless/unfulfilling nature of modern life back to biblical time saying we've come nowhere and gained nothing despite the civilization we believe we have built. |
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