| Busdriver – Sun Shower Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Here's my take... I've always thought of this song as a couple fresh out of art school trying to find jobs in a market that is already flooded with a ton of equally talented (if not more talented) artists. They are reasonably intelligent and are (at first) confident in their ability and their creativity. However, some time passes with little or no success for either of them. I think the singer is then starting to question the realistic possibility that his career choice is not practical for existence in the monetary world. However, the person he's talking to in the song is possibly from a middle-upper or upper class family, and she has something to fall back upon (most likely her parents) if she can't find decent work as an artist for a while. However, the singer (possibly from a lower-class family) doesn't have anything to fall back upon, and is not afforded this luxury. [I've always though he'd been saying "NO place for me" until I saw these lyrics, but it still sound like "no" to me rather than "and" and it makes a LOT more sense given the other lyrics] It seems to me that he tries to explain the nature of the art scene with her, with an ever-increasing realistic outlook. It seems the scene is full of stereotypical, characterless artists who are gaining all the popularity and success. As the song goes on it seems that he is noticing she's selling out to the genre and becoming like everyone else (the well-groomed yuppie scum who are as "wack as hell"). By the end of the song, he becomes more and more irritated at the state of the field, and is still unwilling to compromise his own style and beliefs for popularity and success, culminating in his abandonment of her and/or the art scene. Pretty straight forward, I know, but this is a great song, and given the state of how things are in that field right now (and btw by "artist" in my explanation I mean any sort of artistic career), highly realistic. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Company Calls Epilogue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Not sure if anyone noticed it other than me, but in the last line of the song, Ben switches from "You were the one" to "You ARE the one". Amazing subtlety, yet such an impact. One of the most emotionally imbued songs I've ever heard. | |
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