| fun. – We Are Young Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| When I hear this song I like to pretend that it takes place the night before the events of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" begin. | |
| Rasputina – The Pruning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is one of the most chilling songs I've ever heard... it disturbs me on the deeper levels of my mind, but I can't stop listening to it. It just struck me, listening to this earlier today, how fitting the lines "You can build such fantastic palaces / On foundations of straw / On weird promises / But with one fatal flaw" are in reference to our recent economic woes. No, I'm not suggesting that Melora has a crystal ball and was writing about specific events that would take place a year after the CD was released, but I'd always thought of those lines as talking about how so much of our grand civilization -- our governments, our culture, our economy -- really only continues to exist as long as people believe it does. There are, in reality, no physical laws that cause pieces of paper to have value, nothing that physically forces a business contract or a piece of legislation to be upheld. She touches on this idea again earlier and later in the song with the lines "From natural laws to material things / Nothing in the truth can be changed." We are mortal beings on a fragile planet and no amount of legislation or business transactions can ever change that reality. At least... that's what I get out of the song. Still can't quite put my finger on what the reaper and sower are supposed to represent, though... |
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| Rasputina – A Retinue Of Moons - The Infidel Is Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If I were to venture a guess, I'd say "The Infidel is Me" is allegory to the US involvement in the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the early 1980s and how the consequences of that involvement played out regarding the Taliban, Al Qaida, etc. | |
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