| Iron & Wine – Sodom, South Georgia Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Okkervil River – For Real Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about how we love to flirt with danger just to feel that we are alive. Near death experiences make us feel alive, make us feel real. It's what separates us from mere existence. Hence the reminiscence of the bus that nearly crashed into us, the hands around the throat, the invitation to to come do drugs and have sex in a dark hotel room. All these outrageous things are the things we do to feel real. and when you watch the video, you really see how it fits into the rest of the album. The drugs and sex and stuff are all these things that steal us away from our safe, sheltered lives. There's a kidnapping which ends with us running from our monsters. And yet our monsters are so familiar, like father figures, that we recognize and always turn back to. . .to feel real. |
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| Okkervil River – A Stone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think y'all are right about this song referring to a girl who is in love with a "stone" instead of the man who tries so hard to get her attention. Yet, there seems to be a respect or knowledge about what it means to be that stone. That he gave just one rose on one day long ago, and that was enough. Hey! That's pretty impressive. Somehow, I have to consider this song within the rest of the Black Sheep context. The stone is the black sheep man, right!? He is troubled and outcast and knows it. Would probably like to change but never does. He's a stone, a mere existent, and yet so attractive given the simplicity. The irony is there especially when considering in this case it is not the social outcast who is cast aside, but rather the guy who every mother would prefer her daughter to marry. Rejection is in the eye of the beholder. Once again. ..Will Sheff captures some sort of ironic truth of reality with this song in a beautiful way. |
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| Okkervil River – So Come Back, I Am Waiting Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can certainly see how the black sheep boy refers to both the heroin and the singer/rockstar. Both of which are certainly shunned to varying degress by other members of society. The interesting part is how the beginning of the song is describing how the heroin is taking over the individual, and then that effect of being powerful and unresistable is passed on to the singer. I think the second part of the song is referring to the singer's relationship with a woman (among many women) who are dazzled by him and addicted to his songs (and whatever else he has to offer, hint hint!). He seems to have power over the woman. The woman being the "abecedarian," the young, not experienced, rudimentary (in knowledge) person (virgin, eh?). The singer has the same effect on the woman as heroin has on him, the process of which is quite similar in each case: The singer dissolves with the heroin with syringes in shower stalls, then we see the same effect later in the song (a dissolving), which takes place in beds with hot cream and sweet moans! HELLO! ("you've got yours and I got mine. So why did you flee?") The effects of the drug are passed on to the song-lover via the singer in a sort of endless sorrowful cycle. The singer can't resist going back to the drugs, just like the lover can't resist going back to the "handsome, horned, magisterial" singer. The sorrow of this song is so beautiful. It's deeply drenched in metaphor to create this overall depiction of how some people end up dealing with their existence. Simply amazing poetry based in reality! Addiction is great, ain't it!? Let's all go get some! |
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| Okkervil River – So Come Back, I Am Waiting Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can certainly see how the black sheep boy refers to both the heroin and the singer/rockstar. Both of which are certainly shunned to varying degress by other members of society. The interesting part is how the beginning of the song is describing how the heroin is taking over the individual, and then that effect of being powerful and unresistable is passed on to the singer. I think the second part of the song is referring to the singer's relationship with a woman (among many women) who are dazzled by him and addicted to his songs (and whatever else he has to offer, hint hint!). He seems to have power over the woman. The woman being the "abecedarian," the young, not experienced, rudimentary (in knowledge) person (virgin, eh?). The singer has the same effect on the woman as heroin has on him, the process of which is quite similar in each case: The singer dissolves with the heroin with syringes in shower stalls, then we see the same effect later in the song (a dissolving), which takes place in beds with hot cream and sweet moans! HELLO! ("you've got yours and I got mine. So why did you flee?") The effects of the drug are passed on to the song-lover via the singer in a sort of endless sorrowful cycle. The singer can't resist going back to the drugs, just like the lover can't resist going back to the "handsome, horned, magisterial" singer. The sorrow of this song is so beautiful. It's deeply drenched in metaphor to create this overall depiction of how some people end up dealing with their existence. Simply amazing poetry based in reality! Addiction is great, ain't it!? Let's all go get some! |
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