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| Gillian Welch – Caleb Meyer Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Listening to this song for the first time I found myself following along with Welch's voice, line by line, my heart catching in my throat as she tells her tale, until finally she says "Then feeling with my fingertips, the bottle neck I found..." and I knew she would be alright. |
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| Lucinda Williams – I Lost It Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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A little shiver of contempt runs down my spine whenever someone automatically disregards country music. Yes, the vast majority of what is offered up as "Country" music today is instead some sort of bastardized, lowest-common-denominator country-pop that bears only a passing resemblance to art. But it is not all like that and this song by Lucinda Williams (along with many others) unquestionably redeems the genre and shows that there are still true artists working in country today. |
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| Tom Waits – Cold Cold Ground Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is not about poverty, but simplicity. The paring down of life to the essentials: a stone to warm your bed, wood in the shed, and a bottle to pass around in quiet solitude with the only people that matter. |
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| Múm – Marmalade Fires Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I have to disagree that this is a 'coming of age' song. To come of age is to emerge into adulthood, to yearn for babies and houses and pots and pans, not to burn them. I believe luciferin is closer to the mark; however, I would take issue with the negative connotation of 'giving up what you hope to become.' The quietly uplifting nature of their voices, especially as they reverently intone 'marmalade fires...', indicates to myself that this is an open-eyed abandonment of a more mundane lifestyle for something truly unknown and altogether more interesting. |
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