| Joanna Newsom – In California Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Woah, that is amazing, probably not intentional, but who knows? | |
| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I highly highly doubt this is some sort of political-social message, if that's what you're implying.. | |
| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I feel like it's got to be some sort of sci-fi reference though. Just seems that way to me. | |
| Bright Eyes – Approximate Sunlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| and of course thanks for putting these up btw! | |
| Bright Eyes – Approximate Sunlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I've seen the show, man, what a sight drenched us in approximated sunlight" album version at least |
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| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the boing boing sound, i believe, is a "Jew's harp" or "mouth harp"... it has a lot of names. It works really well with a banjo doesn't it? Appropriately "down-home twang" for the nostalgic summer immagery. Though I don't think she grew up n the South did she? Anyhow, I love this song. This album is one of the best, most original works I have heard. |
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| Laura Marling – My Manic and I Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Interesting how a couple of you said it's "obviously" about a lover, when I'm actually of the school of thought, so to speak, that it is about her! Like, "My Manic (side)". And I like the Pinocchio interpretation of the nose line... if that isn't what she intended, well.. she should have intended that cause it's clever haha Also the assisted suicide interpretation, with the Geneva thing, that is very interesting. I don't think the whole song is about that, but that might be what that reference refers to... Anyway, fucking cool song whatever the hell it means. Very Leonard Cohen-y this song... |
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| Bright Eyes – The Center of the World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the song could be summed up with "the horror of the truth, you see we are far less than we knew." the line, "the alarm clocks goin off this isn't happening! happening happening!" makes me fuckin crumble every time. |
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| Bright Eyes – Loose Leaves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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hahaha, prisoner you rock! Conor is totally a bodhisattva! But so am I, and so are I bet... Conor Oberst is very much absorbed in that inward-outward-journey-ness about life, so he writes traveler's songs, bodhisattva songs if you will. Anyway, I don't have anything to say about this song, except that I think it is beautiful. Thank you Songmeanings.com. I would never have known the brilliance of bright eyes without this site. jamous |
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| Bright Eyes – From a Balance Beam Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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OK I think I know what this song is about. But maybe not.. Honestly, what I love so much about Conor's songs is that you can get these several pages here of completely different meanings and interpretations of a song. And everyone thinks it's incredible! How is that possible? hahaha It's beautiful. But anyway here is my interpretation: The scene with the broken-armed angel and reporters with the 'concrete truth' and him falling off his balance beam--I means that he had some sort of faith (of god or anything christian) but that he sort of grew to realize it was fake, and that was all it took to knock him off the balancr beam. So (i'm doing this verse by verse) he contemplates suicide, because it's all so meaningless and hopeless, the planets above us like marbles spinning sensless in the black sky. now the rest I believe is about the inherent grace that IS in the universe ..."You are free!" "Lifted" like a chess piece from you're corner... But still the pain of life is also always present, so he waits for the death, the ultimate "lift" or freedom. his "wrinkled map" and "compass cracked" are his constant attempt to live happily to wade through life. But he looks forward to death (or maybe just change in general, rebirth) ("a graveyard gray and a garden green") when he can fianlly get up that tree and escape everything and "he won't have to worry no more." And that's it! Tell me if I'm right or if I'm just projecting my own existensial philophies! |
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| Bright Eyes – Smoke Without Fire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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also: not to say that he had been intentionally faking pain to make money. |
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| Bright Eyes – Smoke Without Fire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like some were saying, that this song was a mark of his maturity... I think that actually is maybe what it's about? Alot of his previous work has been VERY emo, immature. Look at these verses: "This pain in you so far removed From anything youve known So I wont condone another moan When everything is fine" and: "And I forgot that life existed I thought it was just some kind of game" as if he hadn't really discovered real pain before, so his highly-emotional music was illegit. or "so far removed from anything [he has] known" "brother be afraid of the flame" then might mean that while he had been sort of using false pain as a money-maker (like a game) thru his music, he really ought to respect the atrocities life can throw at us. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Suzanne Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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and...... I believe "he [jesus] sank beneath your wisdom like a stone" suggests the same thing as the mirror line, that most of us have this embedded moral compass, that sinks straight through the raging waters of the sea (Suzanne), which will always be there, like a mirror, as we confront our desires and indulgences. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Suzanne Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I wonder if Suzanne does not in fact represent the sea. And if the sea does not represent life's trials and tribulations (including temptation). I think in some way Suzanne represents temptation or worldly joys etc., and that's what "you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind" means. But jesus of course represents the other side. And you want to travel with him to, but you would be traveling blind if you did not recognize the lust for the sea within you. Even "he himself was broken" it says. I think toward the end where he says: "There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror," means that man in his struggle for understanding and for happiness will reach for pleasure, but when you indulge yourself in it you'll inevitably find yourself looking in a mirror, seeing the bad in yourself, "Suzanne holds the mirror." |
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