| Death Cab for Cutie – Title Track Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Could "The Crust Of Railroad Earth" be the title of her manuscript? | |
| The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a wild stretch, but I guess this place is for posting different ideas. So here goes. After watching the movie "No Country For Old Men", I was introduced to a weapon called a "captive bolt pistol", which Anton Chigurh (the bad guy) uses repeatedly throughout the movie for both killing and lock-breaking. I was listening to this song for the first time in a while, and remembered both how much I loved the song, and much the lyrics had stumped me. I had read/heard about the lesbian teenagers thing, and thought, "Well, I'm inclined to believe that, seeing as how he wrote the damn song." So, ANYWAY, I came on to this website to find out, as I often do. And I actually had a thought for once. Mercer mentions "Sunday ham" early in the song. Then, in the addendum to the final chorus, he mentions Sunday again: "So when they tap our Sunday heads" This could be a figurative reference to an animal getting the bolt pistol in the head to numb them before getting slaughtered. A sort of lobotomy reference, if you will. The literal translation would be brainwashing from their lesbian lifestyles. "To zombie-walk in our stead" Now, I'm not positive if this is "To zombie walk" or "Two zombies walk". It really does not matter for my hypothesis. I think this could refer to the conformist lifestyle that the girls would then be adopting as a result of being brainwashed by the insular bigots in their "stead". "This town seems hardly worth our time" A decision to either leave the crappy place they feel smothered by, or merely a resignation to trying to freely exist in a place that doesn't understand them. "And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme Too far along in our crime" They won't be brainwashed into feeling guilty anymore. They've already become comfortable with themselves, looking at what the town believes as their "crime" of lesbianism not as taboo, but natural. "Stepping over what now towers to the sky With no connection" Maybe they haven't left, or maybe they already have. So they're either describing leaving a place that has continued to construct this now massive barrier against homosexuality, or fantasizing about leaving it...and never having to deal with it ever again..no connection. Just throwing it out there....I love this website! |
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| Bright Eyes – Down in a Rabbit Hole Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is involves freebasing some sort of white-colored drug. I'd say meth, considering the high lasts for "days, and days, and days, and days" more cheaply and easily than coke. | |
| The Good Life – A Little Bit More Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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we1- I agree with what you said completely. let uss-you extrapolate very accurately....when we don't hear what we want to hear, we harken back and wish for those moments when it was clouded and ambiguous. |
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