| Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm surprised no one else has mentioned the religious overtones of this song. I don't think it was an accident that the band used a gospel choir on the chorus. There's not one in this line that *has* to be about romantic love, rather than divine love, and the second verse sounds pretty spiritual to me: "This mountain I must climb Feels like a world upon my shoulders Through the clouds I see love shine It keeps me warm as life grows colder" My take on it is it's like a number of U2 songs, in that it is simultaneously both about romantic love and about finding God. FYI, I'm not Christian nor am I particular religious, myself...but this interpretation makes a lot of sense to me. |
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| The National – The Geese of Beverly Road Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| okriver - thanks for posting that! I happen to live in that very neighborhood, and I knew The National have been at least partially based in Brooklyn for a while, so I was wondering if this was THE Beverly Road. I'll be thinking of this song the next time I'm walking down that street... | |
| The National – Green Gloves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I get the sense that Matt Behringer works pretty intuitively and instinctively, and that his lyrics are full of metaphors that are beautiful and powerful, but whose meaning is not always entirely clear, even to him. I recently watched the film "A Skin, A Night" about the making of Boxer (great film), and there's a scene where Matt is struggling with writing "Green Gloves", he has the chorus done, but is still working on the verses, and he says something like "You know...I want it to be less of a stalker kind of thing, and more about losing touch with old friends." I think he tends to work that way, writing lyrics that "give a sense" of something, and giving the listener lots of room to find their own specific meaning. Personally, I love that kind of songwriting, but it's not everyone's cup of tea. It's very different from, say, James Taylor, who has a specific explanation for every single line in "Fire And Rain," (e.g., "flying machines in pieces on the ground" = his first band, The Flying Machines, breaking up.) | |
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