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| Cursive – Sink to the Beat Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about the writing process itself and about the self awareness that comes along after you have made a few successful albums. You begin to over think the creative process and question your motives and end up becoming more self-concious of what will and will not be accepted by your fans. This song is Tim reflecting on what it means to be an "artist" and eventually the expectations you have to live up to once you've established yourself. |
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| Cursive – Opening the Hymnal/Babies Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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No one for some reason sees the bigger picture of this album. Tim is reitertating what Machiavelli, the original impetus of the Enlightenment, first stated 500 years ago. Let's forget about the after life, fuck religion, and anyone who uses it as a means to power, Rise Up!, Rise Up! now on earth and improve our stations in the here and now. Stop being blindly led by those who purport to know things that no one actually has access to because ultimately if this is the world that is the result of religion then we are better off without, as he states in the song Retreat! Half the songs are little vignettes and the other half are philosophical treaties explaining his overall outlook on how religion has shaped our lives. |
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| Two Gallants – Despite What You've Been Told Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about the emptiness of meaningless sex and how in the end it is just meaningless. He has come to terms with it: "You know you could be anyone/
God forgive my tasteless tongue" but regrets losing someone he actually loved: "And you you’re just a substitute/For the one that I hold dear". He holds no illusions about what this is going to be and knows she doesn't either: "And I only came here for escape/You, you’re just my next mistake/Like me to you" but wants to be forgiven because he is not just taking advantage of her because at least they are both aware of what this is going to be. This is not his first time doing this and obviously has a reputation: "But despite what you’ve been told/I once had a soul" and is doing this is almost in a mechanical way, but deep down longs for nothing more than the return of his true love. |
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| Two Gallants – The Prodigal Son Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is actually a very deep song, representing modern man's discontent with a modern world, in this case what I call the infliction Middle Class Malaise. "My crime is discomfort, a mind ill at ease." He was born into a position of expectation because he has been given everything he has needed since birth, yet has failed to meet the expectations imposed on him by society and has been nothing but a "disclaimer for 24 years" causing his mother grief. His mother/parents had expectations that he would secure an "epic of wealth" because he has been given everything he needs to succeed but after tasting the "grace", in this case the good, secure life that has been the goal of modern society, he has rejected it, and "placed it back on the shelf". He says he came from "this city a victim of peace," the city being San Francisco which one may say is the ultimate manifestation of liberal, modern society and he decides he wants nothing to do with it, rejecting civilized society, and would rather live "savage and free" and return to the State of Nature which humans were first born into, unprotected by the state or god or any other man made instituitions, but truly free and one with nature. |
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