| Guster – Keep It Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I thought this song was about failed utopias. (It also reminds me of Lord of the Flies, and the show Lost a lot, but that came later, heh.) In the plot of the story, you have a bunch of people wash up on some shore with a chance to "build it from the ground." They are "singing a new song, so far away, and everything starts today." They have the chance to build a new society, unsullied by the past ones they have been cast from. But the question is "can we rise? can we get along all right? can we miss the storm that sucked the whole world in?" The founders of this mythical Guster society wonder and hope that they can have a perfect world, without all the wars and crap from the other nations. But when the other nations come and declare war on them (pretty soon the boats came for us half a million strong), they had to fight back, and "pretty soon the spirit was a lot like what it used to be back home." Pretty much, no matter how much we try to build new ways and new societies, we will always fall back to the human violence that makes the world a mess. Even washed up on some distant shore, it is never fully escapable. But it could also be about the band! |
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| Guster – Cocoon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Whatever this song is about, I know I've been there. Mostly through high school, it's so easy to let yourself drift along, have your life planned out for you, and never take a chance. There's homework, there's social repression... and you waste your free time holed up in your room. And then, one day, you realize with horror that you're already 18 and one of the dullest people you know, with no original thoughts, nothing to leave your mark on the world with. That was something I went through, and this song really helped me sort through the depression that entailed after that. This whole album really speaks to me as a young adult really. Probably because they wrote all the songs when they were my age. :) Also, "The day the sun gets in your eyes is the day that you'll be free" is one of my favorite Guster lines in the history of ever. |
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