| The Mountain Goats – No Children Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The way I figure it, the lyrics aren't sarcasm. It seems to me that both the narrator and their significant other seem to be in the relationship because people need relationships, and they really can't function alone (this is true of everyone, not just them), and because they have a spiteful need to "win" the relationship by keeping their hand in the pot the longest. However, the tune's just so catchy, I keep listening to it even though I really don't know what it's like to experience that. (Also, while the little Moral Orel I've seen is enough to convince me this song fits, I think that the suggestion above that this song is 'based on' Moral Orel is laughable.) |
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| The Mountain Goats – Hebrews 11:40 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It sounds to me like it's about the devil, at least based on what literature I've read on him. He's a fallen angel, seeking largely to make it back home (literally "rise again," if the mythology regarding heaven above and hell below is right) by whatever means necessary. That's just what I took from it though. | |
| M. Ward – For Beginners Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Holby-- you're reading too directly. "They say the original sinners"-- That's where we jump into Adam and Eve. Original Sin is the fruit thing, so says Catholicism. From some quick research, Mount Zion refers to two places-- a hill just outside of Jerusalem, and what is now the area called Temple Mount, where Jesus chased out the Money Changers. The interesting thing is, if you think of it from a Jewish perspective, which this song seems to be doing (Never mentions anything from the New Testament) and look into it there, the Temple Mount is believed to have the "Foundation Stone," which is the exact spot where the world was created, and it expanded from there. Mt. Zion is a clear reference the "the beginning." Also, as Sons & Daughters commented, it is believed that a signifigant temple will be built there right before the second coming of Christ. I don't think the "hunters" part is exactly in tune with the rest of the [biblical] metaphor. It seems that arrows (in the beginning) are used to refer to danger, though I'm guessing there, and then later he uses the word "hunters" to refer to people; however, while it's a metaphor, he refers to it literally; what do hunters use, bows. |
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| The Weakerthans – Hospital Vespers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Havenspear, bad news. I just checked all three. (Manifest) definitely is, (Past-due) makes the grade but I had to squint a little, but not Hospital Vespers. It's 12 lines, not 14. And it still has the couplet at the end. The first four lines properly set up the sonnet feel, but then the rhymes stop. The lines go something like: ABABCDEFGFHH, where a "shakesperean sonnet" is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. (My friend just finished a course on Shakespeare which he hated, so I had to learn it all too) | |
| The Weakerthans – Past-Due Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Update (moments later!) Yeah, it is. Nice find, the rhyme scheme is somewhat tenuous at the end (Find-Sign, Dead-Beloved) but it manages regardless. |
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| The Weakerthans – Past-Due Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Drumbeatsong-- you seem to be at least potentially correct, but the lyrics as they're written now would have to be wrong, as a sonnet is not 15 lines (I discounted the seperate section) but 14. However, there isn't the break between "His tiny feet" and "The birthmark on her knee" that takes place between lines in any of the 'trilogy.' | |
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