| Menomena – The Pelican Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is a fat FUCK YOU, and everything before the first guitar riff is preamble. The subject is sick of sacrifice, and is now rejecting it as a virture. At 0'55, he's done. He is in the position of power "he holds the reins", but he's not going to sacrifice his own ambition or desires for whatever it is, a woman, Jesus, collectivism, whatever. It's his land, it's not your place to stake a claim. The metaphore of pelicans fighting over a fish is about scarcity, and dominance. |
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| Menomena – My My Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ...I think it's really awesome that they are unwilling to compromise their phrasing to make their lyrics intelligible. Yeah, I think it's dote now too. | |
| Menomena – Muscle'n Flo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is Menomena still in the aftershocks of being raised on Jesus? Because Craig Thompson DEFINITELY is, probably will be his whole life. The foot-washing talking about Jesus's impotence makes me think that maybe they are... | |
| Menomena – Polo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is a desperate signal flare, that the shooter probably knows won't be seen. He's a goner. (means he should dump her, but he won't) |
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| Menomena – Wet and Rusting Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First of all, I highly recommend that anyone who likes this song listen to the cover called "LOAF: A Deli Tea Version" AND a remix called "E.R. Don Remix" I found them in torrents... They are each stellar, in absolutely divergent ways, and well, they're both beautiful. If you can't find it, send me a PM or something and I'll send you the file. The drummer is amazing on this track. I heard the lyric as "Separated by skin TINT" for a long time, but either way, I think that the guitar sigh after that line is pure sex. I also think that this song is yearning for the best kind of sex, the kind where you're not separate anymore. The violence of the the staccato drumming also wonderful. I'd say the most earnest line in the song is the “This is the closest I'll come to touching you, the way I want” and in my experience I have always lived that line in the sense of being with girls that are beautiful, sweet, that are sincere in their love, but that have hang-ups with irrationality and that are, in a word, unreasonable. This can take the form of (religious) faith, or any kind of mysticism, because once faith enters a conversation about what people believe is true, there's no more conversation. You know you're fighting a losing battle if someone believes the things they do just by fiat. You can still love them, and care for them greatly, but “This is the closest I'll come to touching you, the way I want.” ...until you get over your religious/collectivist memes. I'm not a fan of faith, it's not a virtue. I like to think the “faith” mentioned in the ending is faith in your own self, your HOPE that people will come to reason. |
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