| Bright Eyes – Ladder Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The thing that made me fall so in love with this song was hearing "I'm tired of traitors, always changing sides, they were friends of mine" as simply grief over friends who've died. The betrayal is that irrational feeling you have of being left by the deceased. What's beautiful is he's warning himself against caring for more people who could leave, but has to distract himself with everyday life to keep from thinking of death (Starting with "Bought a mantra.."). In the process he finds some sad beauty and accidentally (tragically) meets a new "precious friend." The star is a throwback to "Jejune Stars", and is a symbol for the way we're connected to each other and everything else. It's a sad, hard, losing battle, but the message of the song and album is "you're not alone in fighting it" |
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| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it connotes an original spiritual experience - an encounter with something unexplainable and frightening that knocks you into the kind of reflection that's all over the album. The "jungle" uses wild, pre-civilized man as a metaphor for spiritual/intellectual infancy. It's a wonderful symbol because it's not loaded up with christian or other imagery, but totally delivers on those emotions. |
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| Devotchka – How It Ends Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As said, this is in the trailer to Everything is Illuminated; that movie is a very botched adaptation of an incredible book by the same name by J. Foer. The song fits the book (not the movie, as it turns out) perfectly, and I cannot hear this song without feeling every emotion in the novel. The book is heartbreaking in the exact same way as is the song. On one level, it is about love and the holocaust. The story and language are as beautiful as the song, but the refrain haunts the story to the end "you already know how this will end" If you love the song, get the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=uU3bxcl70CIC&dq=everything+is+illuminated&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 |
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