| Freelance Whales – Hannah Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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just got done watching the movie Hannah Takes the Stairs. I've been watching a lot of mumblecore pictures lately and I saw this title when searching around on Netflix and rented it just because of this song. It is clearly related; the name is too much too be a coincidence and the "trumpet solo" line pushes any chance of coincidence away. so if you want to understand this hannah character, you need to watch the movie. if you don't care to get that in depth, that's cool but it's an interesting movie anyways. |
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| Lets Wrestle – I Wish I Was In Husker Du Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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??? is certainly "??? M Ward" "Damn M Ward" perhaps? but it's certainly M Ward, and his new record isn't fast or tough. |
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| Girls – Lauren Marie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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oh Lauren Marie i might never get my arms around you but that doesn't mean that I won't try i know this was not what he was going for, but whenever I hear this line, I picture Lauren Marie to be very fat. |
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| Times New Viking – Drop-Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| if it wasn't for the fuzzing and the cussing this would be the most popular song for tv commercials ever written. | |
| Alela Diane – Foreign Tongue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song has some of the most clever double meanings i've ever heard in a song. first there's the obvious "foreign tongue ties me here" which implies not only that this foreign language of a foreign land has kept her there (in Europe one would suppose) but also that this foreign world leaves her tongue tied. my favorite line though is definitely: "So hang my slips out with the words between the lines" i'm guessing this came from the European practice of hanging laundry out your window. she hangs out her slips (which are already the most secretive article of clothing and I bet not as commonly displayed depending on the modesty of the culture) out on the laundry line, but of course, also lets her secrets slip out (Freud-style if you will) between the words she speaks. of course, like that famous saying goes you are supposed to read the words between the lines. god i love that line. |
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| Alela Diane – Tired Feet Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i read that the songs for this album were written on a trip to Europe, and i think this is one of the few where that is really obvious. Literally she was walking around and felt this sense of deja vu, went by a cathedral, and realized that she had lived a previous life, or many lives, right there. To me this song is about wearing oneself out in a nihilistic mindset and then coming upon the realization that there is more out there. I don't mean more in the religious sense. I mean, she realizes at a cathedral that she has been reincarnated for heaven's sake; she isn't talking about any specific religion. it's a beautiful song that to me encapsulates that moment when the world makes sense to a person, when their find their purpose, or realize how they are a small part of something bigger. | |
| Alela Diane – The Pirate's Gospel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i agree with tarumba on the meaning of this song. how liberating it is. although at the same time, the idea of being a "pirate" isn't exactly a noble sense of life. it's entirely possible that this song could be a satire of the idea of living in the world here and now, that secular humanists and people like that are just living on stolen time (from god(s)). For some reason that's what pirate as an adjective would mean to me. I don't think this is the case though because of the themes of other songs, and the very first line. It is obviously futile to "row" to heaven. | |
| Alela Diane – The Pirate's Gospel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ah, but i find pleasure in sustainability. | |
| Alela Diane – The Rifle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Brother I'm so sorry that you watched the Patens burn And I've been holding onto the gold When lettin' go would free my hands And I've been tying your tongue in a knot Oh I've been tying your tongue in a knot To wrap this death, to wrap this death in a sheet I listened to this song a number of times and I always thought she was saying "paintings burn". If it is Patens, that completely changes the meaning, and it actually makes a lot more sense to me that way. kind of. She mentions "mama" also in this but I wonder if brother is not used in the religious sense. Alela obviously has very strong ties to Christianity (not necessarily that she is faithfully devoted but that it is somehow important to her). "And I've been holding onto the gold, When lettin' go would free my hands" refers literally to holding the cup or plate for communion (often gold). I get the sense that in this verse she is speaking from the perspective of a priest or someone who appears very pious to another member of the church (or maybe a monk (Brother), and when it says "And I've been tying your tongue in a knot" that the tradition and dogma associated makes it hard to speak up about anything that may appear critical of the church (even if the communion wafers are on fire!). "To wrap this death in a sheet" is clearly supposed to evoke again, in a literal sense that when the bread and wine sit on the alter they are covered with a white cloth. I think the idea of the rifle fits. Obviously it is supposed to elicit some feeling of being trapped in your home and there are bad people (or i suppose maybe wolves or something) coming to attack. The "it's us against the world, let's fight" mentality that some religious people have (not necessarily in the violent sense of the word fight) fits this rifle theme and to me also fits in with the verse that is obviously "about" communion. As for the rest of the song, i don't really understand how it all fits together. All i know is it's a beautiful song, and if i were to find it didn't have a real meaning at all, i wouldn't care. |
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