| The Sound of Animals Fighting – St. Broadrick is in Antarctica Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree about the lyrics being "coffee in hand," "reliance of substance," and "hose water." They make more sense with the song. I wanted to comment on the spoken word section, I thought it was fantastic, and if my interpretation is correct, the analogies are very clever. I think it's about breaking up. He's talking it out with the other person in the relationship. "I know you don't want change But nothing is ever what it used to be." He continues to tell the other, "Grab the rope, hoist yourself up with a coffee in hand, comforted by the reliance of substance. A solitude parade. Grab the rope, hoist yourself up and drift like ants in hose water." Paraphrased: I know you want to keep this relationship going, but it's not like it used to be. Get your coffee and pick yourself up, comforted by loneliness (it will always be there for you). Pick yourself up and slump away. I believe he uses a system of analogies in the spoken word section. Three angels=three devils=three words=I love you. He is reminiscing over a love letter. It's painful as he reads and in the silence inserts words like "not" and "better." He tries to muster up the same feelings of love he used to have, but the "shadows don't bend". In the same way that now is not then, he does not love her now, like he did then. "I love you" was once an attorney, an apology, a monument, and an apostrophe for him. He equates "I love you" to three monuments and then ends with my favorite line. "So I destroyed a monument, so what." |
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| mewithoutYou – In a Market Dimly Lit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hey guys, I did this as an assignment for a Biblical interpretation class that I'm taking. Just thought I'd share. I didn't elaborate on how I interpreted the rest of the song because it would have taken up too much room. But I did analyze it all and that's how I came up with my opening paragraph. "she's the silver coin I lost, I'm the sheep who slipped away we pray with fingers crossed but you listen patiently anyway" (Luke 15:1-10) The song is most likely about being alone, having no accountability, and therefore compromising your faith. It's about desiring rebuke and accountability from other believers, so that faithless works would be exposed, so that God might be seen as possessing truth. The parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin are referenced in the portion of the lyrics shown above. The author, Aaron Weiss, draws the listener into the biblical references and uses the imagery as a type of poetic rosetta stone. If you look closely into the parables of the lost coin and lost sheep then you see a common theme: repentance for sin is far better than self-righteousness. Once you understand the symbolism, you begin to understand why Aaron uses such symbolism. By describing himself as "the sheep who slipped away" and "her" as "the silver coin he lost", he is saying that they are both sinners that are running from self-righteousness, yet they are still described as being lost. And this is where the meaning of the song comes together. We see that Aaron has run from self-righteousness and into compromise. He express a hate for both and has found a way out: rebuke. Unfortunately, there is no one to correct him. "We pray with fingers crossed, but you listen patiently anyway", further supports the idea that Aaron is compromising, but is still holding on to self-righteousness, and is therefore stuck; lost; in need of correction. |
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| mewithoutYou – The Cure for Pain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My take: "The cure for pain is in the pain, so it's there that you'll find me." This pain being felt because of sin, separation from God, the way to be reconciled to God (curing the pain) is by repenting, which comes from seeing your sinfulness, seeing your sinfulness is very painful...but experiencing that pain leads us away from sin (the cause of the pain). "Until again I forget, and again he reminds me," Until again he forgets about his sinfulness and then again God reminds him. "Hear my voice in your head, and think of me kindly." God talking here saying hear me convicting you of your sin and think of me kindly. "Let me be, let me be.." Aaron doesn't think of God kindly at this point, he wants to be away from the guilt of sin and not be reminded of it and convicted by it...this song having the point that only Jesus' mercy can get us away from the guilt and pain caused by sin. And the only way to gain Jesus' mercy is to be broken over sin. "Lowered down like a casket and buried just below her chest." Aaron then looks to a girl, it seems to me that he slowly is going towards death in his sinful ways (hence "buried" and "casket") and this is being caused by his becoming more obsessed with possessing her heart. "Whatever I was searching for, it was never you," she says. This cuts him deep because he is so consumed with having this girls' heart, so consumed with having her need him. The record ended long ago, we go on dancing nonetheless." Either the relationship ended or the heart of the relationship ended, either way, they continued acting as if it hadn't. I opened like a locket, "If you're ever cold," I wrote, "there's warmth inside me. I'm the pocket of an old winter coat." But where she used to say "I need you." Now...."I don't." More then anything, Aaron wants the girl to need him, he offers himself as one who will comfort her and love her...but she doesn't need him anymore, she's found that he's not what she's looking for. "You'd only make the softest sound, like sugar pouring into tea." Take a deep breath and let it out as a sigh, when you exhale it sounds kind of like sugar pouring into tea (to me at least), I think the girl was depressed and he says that she wouldn't do anything but sigh. "Darling let your Self pour down and dissolve into the Love who revealed himself there quietly to me..." She's looking for something to help her, she found that it's not him and Aaron is now giving his testimony to her that the cure for pain is found in Jesus Christ. "(Jesus have mercy on us.)" The whole point of the song is to show that we need mercy, it's the only way that this pain can ever go away, because we will continue to sin and we will continue to forget about our sinfulness until God reminds us, but Jesus offers forgiveness and mercy to those who ask for it, believe He is who He says He is, and turn from our sins to follow Him. I hope this interpretation helps you in your Christian walk as it has helped me. Hear His voice and think of Him kindly. -Peace. |
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| mewithoutYou – Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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At the end of the song I hear "But I promise to love you forever, and I don't even know what that means." Also, I thought it was interesting to view "love" as an emotion instead of a person in the line "where have you gone, my love." I know it doesn't have anything to do with the song, but I think about it whenever I feel like the love that I usually have pouring out of me disappears and is replaced with negative feelings. I think "where has my love gone?" or put more poetically, "Where have you gone, my love?" |
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