| Santigold – Anne Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think "Jesus pieces" might refer to the host that they serve during the sacrament of Communion- in the Catholic Church the host is believed to literally be the flesh of Christ, or pieces of Jesus. I think this would fit in well with the bit about penitence- she's trying to redeem herself with religion. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Shores of California Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree that the song is sarcastic, but I don't agree that it's meant to parody the different values of men and women so much as the different expectations of men and women throughout the ages and the toll that trying to live up to these expectations has taken on them (especially women). Especially lyrics about girls being called a "tease", etc. I think it's more about women having to struggle with the virgin/whore complex- expected to either be completely pure and immune to men's advances or a completely sexual being. Either withholding sex or yielding completely. This made more sense in my head, I think. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – The Gardener (Album Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, this song isn't necessarily about abuse, but about a girl's own lack of self esteem. She seems to think that she's a failure and not good for anything, but she's determined to be accepted, so she gives herself up-- "We will take it out in blood" and "At last my little flower/ is getting put to use." In the first verse, if she turns back the clock, spring will come out-- she was happier when she was younger? Later in the song, the girl, the failure, is "bearing strange new fruit," which I think might possibly be a baby. "The Gardener" might be the father of that baby, and he doesn't see anything useful about the girl aside from her ability to bear him children, so he's coming to "collect" the child- he cares about it more than her. Basically, I think The Gardener is about the loss of innocence. I don't know how much sense that makes, but that's what I got out of it. |
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