| Modest Mouse – You're the Good Things Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song seems to imply the subjectivity of perspective. Most people seem to be ignoring my favorite lines at the beginning: "Sleight of hand can't separate your body from the dirt your standing on today." This seems to mean that we're all the same, we're all made of the same stuff, the only difference is the viewpoint we take when we're looking. This is a common theme of Brock's and it reminds me of stuff by Vonnegut. In Slaughter-House Five he says that everyone is the same (why his books never have antagonists), and in Cat's Cradle the religion he creates refers to everything as transformed mud that can walk and see. This mirrors the idea that we're inseparable from the dirt we're standing on. Brock is using this detached perspective to look at human relationships. Everyone is the icing on the cake. Sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes it's not. We bring our own biases into any interaction and Brock recognizes that. There are multiple sides to the coin and it's easy to forget that the things we enjoy and the things that annoy us are often one and the same, and we forget how mercurial we are, how quickly we change moods. As for the part at the end I'm not sure, but the grave digging ties in nicely with imagery of the "underground" and "the dirty we're standing on." |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just wanted to say that a lot of the people here are pretty dumb. People keep coming up with these long explanations that are just paraphrasing the entirety of the lyrics. We know what the words mean, the question is what are they trying to say. It's obvious that the words work on multiple levels, and possibly more abstract levels than most people are thinking. It doesn't matter who the pitcher or the catcher is, the importance is the meaning of the words. The relationship of a pitcher and a catcher is implied and paralleled between the narrator and his love within the song, and nothing more. So much of their characterization is provided in the short lines, "The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays." I like whoever brought up the fact that Miss Private is Marisa Privitera. The song explores the relationship between two people. Obviously they are running away together, or wish to. But it seems that the song goes into the ideas of these two people being alone together, and definitely goes into the sacrifices of a relationship. How many nights can you take, and praying for a doorway back into life. Both sad lines. The narrator new it wouldn't come to love. There's this impossible relationship between two lovers who impulsively want to run away together but know they wouldn't be happy. I think the The imagery just connotes really emotional stuff, whether it goes into a gay relationship or not doesn't matter at all. And lastly, the song is not about baseball! The symbolism and imagery of the game, the relationship of pitcher and catcher, the coming together of teams, and and religious themes are all being utilized. Don't overanalyze the surface. |
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