| The Neighbourhood – Female Robbery Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Actually, I think you're right. | |
| The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| "both your hands" meaning hands of two people, not two hands of the same people. | |
| The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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One god damn sexy song. Obviously it's about sex, obviously. But some of the wording... it's sex, but better than sex... its... it's a threesome. Hot damn. |
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| Josh Ritter – The Temptation Of Adam Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A few things to get clear for everyone: 1- It's not WWII-era, it's not even Cold War era. The first line is "if this *was* the cold war...", implying that era is passed. It's contemporaneous. 2- Don't read the biblical analogy into every line, the comparison is only between the biblical Adam and Josh Ritter 's protagonist herein on the level of their temptation: biblical temptation = knowledge from Eve; Ritter temptation = only Eve, only love, nothing else. 3- The bomb shelter is a bomb shelter. We should assume the story is physically happening. Josh Ritter himself has indicated as much. These premises are important because they release the power of the song's message. The character falls in love so totally that he would allow the world to die if it meant continuing the life of his love. This is what falling in love is, it's going into a shelter with another person and being blind to the workings of the world outside of it. Josh Ritter writes about the destructive side of love that would destroy the entire world because it would allow the two to reimagine one together. This is love. That's what love is; a creation of a world by the shared vision and for the cohabitation of two people. The corollary to that is that they must give up what the world up to that point had been to both of them as individuals, which is destructively severing to all other relationships. 4- This is the most heartbreaking song ever written. You can also find this vision of love in the movie 'Inception,' which highlighted the destructive side of love by likening the act of staying in that world to becoming a monster. |
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| Freelance Whales – Follow Through Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Battlestar Gallactica reimagined. The lament of Caprica 6. |
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| Freelance Whales – DNA Bank Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this is the most chilling song on the album. It's a very specific thing to write about, being lost adrift in space and wanting desperately to pass on your genetic information onto other planets, but it manages to land. "Slip it in a human's tea, our DNA on a boat in the Euphrates"... woah. | |
| Freelance Whales – Aeolus Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm not surprised that there aren't many comments on the songs from Diluvia; Weathervanes was much more narrative and Diluvia is more challenging to interpret. These songs have to be viewed from the general theme of the futuristic destruction of Earth (diluvia = flood, with its biblical implications): interstellar travel, robots developing emotions, transferring alien DNA into humans in ancient Egypt, and the like. This song: really vague pronoun use, very hard to disentangle particulars. Generally, though, this song seems to be about robots evolving sentience and fleeing Earth. Aeolus = god of the wind (given) Crooked fingers = kelp little bits of diamond crushed up = carbon animals = humans your warm arms = spaceships |
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| Gregory Alan Isakov – The Stable Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Thank you | |
| The Neighbourhood – Female Robbery Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| 98% sure this song is a rape fantasy | |
| Freelance Whales – Broken Horse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The album is from the perspective of a boy who falls in love with the ghost of a little girl and tries to join her. So, probably the song is directed to the horse he thinks she is possessing. For visual aid, 2:24 of this video: http://vimeo.com/12304571 Great song. Incredible album. The quality of the supplemental info on their website brings it to life, yes, like a ghost. |
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| The Antlers – Atrophy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this is just off the mark. The whole album has to be taken as one whole story, and at this point in the narrative they are just starting their relationship. They do not get married until "Two," as a desperate act before she dies ("two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry"). This song shows their destructive abandon in their relationship, and this line illustrates that he in fact was married when they met and left his wife to care for her. She takes off his wedding ring with her teeth when he climbs into bed with her . He is a caretaker in a Hospice, she is a bipolar late stage bone cancer patient with little hope for survival who can not get a bone marrow transplant due to past suicide attempts. It is really all there, fantastic in its subtlety. This song is just a part of it. |
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| The Antlers – Wake Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Spring and Thompson" is an intersection in The Village in Manhattan. You can assume this is the area where the two lived together during the times that Sylvia was well enough to be out of the hospital. | |
| Gregory Alan Isakov – The Stable Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| not sure about some of these lyrics (especially the first line) but most of this is pretty good. couldn't find the lyrics anywhere online, so here they are. | |
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