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| Passion Pit – Take a Walk Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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That's how I experience the song, too, Jammyone. Personally, all the debate above about the nationalist tones are secondary to the emotion of a man who has to carry all his angst, worry, longing, and confusion alone as he takes a walk. He doesn't want to burden his family. I think this is supported by the way the verses are "read" and then chorus is "shouted" with almost a grit in the teeth... even the beat feels like someone is stomping down the street.
As a dad of five young kids who tries to provide for them and my wife, this song got me choked up. Songs like these are good containers to dump my own feelings when those you're closest to can't and shouldn't have to bear it. |
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| Derek Webb – nothing is ever enough Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think this hits closer to the truth, AdamXStar. I think the "she" is whatever that thing is we idolize outside of God that we pour our time and attention to, hoping it'll come through for us. |
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| Andrew Bird – Souverian Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Andrew Bird uses a lot of plays on words, homophones ("Souverian" and "so very young"), and verbal/aural palindromes (e.g., "Oh No" and "On Ho") in his writing. Perhaps a big reason he used the word "Souverian" was because it is homophonic with "so very young." When you juxtapose different words together that sound the same, your brain tries to make some connection where there previously wasn't one... one of the great things about art. |
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| Andrew Bird – Souverian Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Andrew Bird uses a lot of plays on words, homophones ("Souverian" and "so very young"), and verbal/aural palindromes (e.g., "Oh No" and "On Ho") in his writing. Perhaps a big reason he used the word "Souverian" was because it is homophonic with "so very young." When you juxtapose different words together that sound the same, your brain tries to make some connection where there previously wasn't one... one of the great things about art. |
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| M. Ward – Epistemology Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yes, since Epistemology is the study of knowledge and what we can and can't know, I think M. Ward is telling us what he thinks the limits are. This is just one more brushstroke to paint the picture of what love is, and he's emphasizing the messy-try-and-try-again-ness of it. Sometimes stuff is just so convoluted that you fall back on what you know, which is "I find myself loving this person, so I do things to show them, other than that, I don't know what else to say." I like that simplicity. |
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| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Though there may be some truth when the singer says the lyrics are "fairly meaningless," I also know that most artists hate to interpret their work and distill the meaning. Like good poetry, everything you need to say is in the lyric, to expand on it is to lose some of it's meaning.
I think it's a poetic image. I thought it interesting that in the beginning the singer is singing solo and you could interpret his loop as "I was following the I," like he's following himself. Then when the other singer(s) come in and the accompaniment starts, then it changes to "I was following the pack..."
Just a little interesting overlay of music and lyrics. |
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