| Andrew Bird – The Happy Birthday Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love the irony of saying, "happy birthday," which is supposed to be a celebration of life, but often becomes an unfortunate reminder of a ticking clock as we get older. Repeating this in a carpe diem versus carpe-diem-because-you're-going-to-die, fraught with irony, i am quite pleased. I love Andrew Bird because his songs seem to present these quandaries for us to think about, without really offering too much of an explanation. Just a coping mechanism: music. | |
| Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A criticism of how science seems to pull things apart and piece them back together, "you're what happens when two substances collide" => a purely scientific way of looking at a human being. Perhaps the rest of the song comments on how we use these lives, the choices that we make, and how this strange scientific phenomenon creates actual actions and tangible persons who are fragile but reckless? "What goes undelivered" - After these deaths, or incidents, or whatever, all of the potential of this one human being, who chose to live their life in the destructive ways they did? |
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| Andrew Bird – Simple X Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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what i love about the song is its simplicity. it sounds like a regimen that someone has learned to adopt for some reason, and a really good regimen at that! you know those quiet moments that you have to yourself when you wake up, before you read the paper or check your email or come into contact with the rest of the world, you can be truly at peace. if only everyone could come to appreciate that each person in the world shares this same moment, we could learn to identify with each other and perhaps be less threatened. it would be wonderful if we could forget the details and focus in on the implicit humanity that we actually share - reminds me a lot of "tables and chairs": "Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor, at all." what an important thing to remember! |
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