Blind Guardian – Control the Divine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
I'm not half as nerdy as I'd need to be to understand the things Blind Guardian references, but is this maybe about Dune? The "divine" being the spice, the person they're rebelling against being Pedofatman Baron Harkonnen, the awakening and arising folks being the Fremen? Also, he says he'll reign, like Paul Atreides, and "night invades" could be the Fremen moving during night. But then, the focus on hatred really doesn't match up, and I'm pretty sure each of these songs is tailor-made to fit the referenced stories down to the last detail. So I could be wrong. |
Devendra Banhart – A Sight to Behold Lyrics | 13 years ago |
This song could be interpreted to be the blossoming of a young, introverted wallflower as they become a confident young adult. The first verse could be the first stage of development: the young woman/man realizing that they can talk with and relate to other people, using words and making them their own. Especially in high school, for example, most people, or at least the loudest people, are more interested in making noise and bolstering their own self-confidence than in communicating meaningfully, so the introvert learning that he or she CAN talk to meaningful people about meaningful things is this first step. Second verse might be about the self-confidence that comes from knowing that you are a worthwhile person, no matter what anybody else thinks. Seems like the whole idea of realizing how interesting and good you are inside is compared to golden corn giving a golden glow: the warmth of self-confidence. The "little head inside your little hold" part might concern how, though the introvert passes through their days normally, maybe being picked on by the same people as before, they keep the light of their sense of self-worth inside to warm them. "Sparkling thoughts" would be self-confidence itself. The last verse might refer to gliding effortlessly through social situations, perhaps in college, now that they have a beacon of self-worth. The familiarity of all this comes from childhood, before puberty, when the introvert was just another kid before everybody set out to prove themselves. It could also be about a sense of social standing or of personal understanding. I'm also pretty partial to the song meanings that PandaCakes and tigersroamfree wrote up; you can tell this song is well-written because it can be interpreted so widely and so effectively. Every idea works, really. Though I honestly don't think it's much about sex. |
Old Crow Medicine Show – Cocaine Habit Lyrics | 14 years ago |
Ah. There are two different versions of this song, one on Eutaw and one on Big Iron World. My comment would go to the Big Iron World one. |
Old Crow Medicine Show – Cocaine Habit Lyrics | 14 years ago |
A verse is missing: "If you don't believe cocaine is good Ask Karl Rove and Elijah Wood." I think the naming of Elijah Wood is a reference to the awesome campy film "The Faculty," where Elijah Wood and other teenagers have to do coke to prove they aren't aliens. At least, I've never heard of a real-life scandal with Elijah Wood and cocaine. |
Old Crow Medicine Show – Take 'Em Away Lyrics | 14 years ago |
One of the cool things about this song is that it's vague enough that it could be either a poor white farmer or a black slave or sharecropper. It applies to all the beaten-down Southern workers. |
Natalie Merchant – Ophelia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
I guess it doesn't like the "lesser than" symbol. Jesus. Well, the other is there's a part of these women in Ophelia, that she's isn;t inherently feeble, no-one is. She could've been any of these awesome women depending on how she was raised and encouraged. Don't you dare do it a third time, internet. |
Natalie Merchant – Ophelia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
(it cut me off?) is Ophelia |
Natalie Merchant – Ophelia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
I can interpret this song in two ways, both with Ophelia referring specifically to the literary charcter in Hamlet. One of them is Ophelia>Everywoman, where I think the song is saying that all of these women, despite their differences and separate powers and abilities and convictions, all have a piece of complacent, hopeless Ophelia inside of them. The other is Ophelia |
Iron & Wine – House by the Sea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
The song seems to me to be talking about the fundamental difference between men and women, how men have an instinct to spread seed and then move on and how women try to make a home, try to keep them around. The "house by the sea" mentioned in each verse is the happy medium that the male and the girls in this song wish to achieve. In the first verse, I feel that the sisters have something amorous going on with the singer, who is clearly male; this is perhaps the cause of their jealousy towards each other, or towards any other women he looks at. The one laying on the floor is being inviting and enticing, and the one changing the locks is conspiring to keep the man there. The part about buying their time on his knees seems to refer to the fact that, in lots of hormone-centered relationships like this one, the guy humbles himself before the girl to get into her pants. The second verse is describing how heavenly the house by the sea is; how great it is when everybody's natural instincts co-incide and love-making is what's going down. Roses and raspberry leaves smell pretty good, and having smoke in your nose, whether it's tobacco or a more illicit substance, is a fun, meaningless thing you do in luxury. Maybe this also links to their being two girls instead of your normal one-on-one relationship - the house by the sea is an irresistable male fantasy."Making the meaning they lack" could refer to the man thinking up reasons to be there, and him "burning the book they come back to" means that he's rejecting their reasons - they think he should stay there, start a family. In the third verse, the man has left the sisters and has travelled far away, putting an ocean between himself and that heavenly house. "Like the shape of a wave," their regard from him goes from a zenith of love and mating to a nadir of celebrating his death. The final six lines are particularly potent, amptly and poetically summarizing the relationship. 1: he lives for them, hopelessly in love, and he goes whenever they do. 2-3: Their control over him tightens, and his instincts want him to escape and roam. This goes from simply wanting to leave to trying to escape the metaphysical bondage he's in. 4: They don't call him Sam Beam (or whatever) like they used to, now the name is full of responsability and expectations. 5-6: Having left, he still dreams of the pleasure of that house, and he dreams of "love and freedom" co-existing somehow. |
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