| Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this is about the experience of losing your father, and it being totally disorienting and destroying the childlike part of you. Hence "The King in I is gone," the reference to his mom, and the sense of not being able to grasp onto things that were once so tangible in his father. | |
| Sunset Rubdown – Swimming Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The lyrics on here are wrong. The first verse says "maybe redemption is found in the lake," not maybe an ocean. The second verse says "Hold their hands on Sundays, but some day they'll get down on the ground for you." Also, it is "because the bed's warm and its cold out." I think this song is about the struggle with reality as a way to redemption, and the fact that no matter what you do, whether you go to Church on Sunday or not, reality is going to kick your ass, and you're going to be "swimming" to find your redemption. I think line that's most critical of religion is the "I say some claims are true, some claims are true, but I think some silly dreams, they can't come true." I think he's saying there that there's wisdom to be found in religion (also present in the idea that "some variables lurk in the wine"), but there's a lot of "silly dreams" there too. I think the last stanza (which is a song unto itself on Snakes got a Leg) sums the whole idea up quite well. Because variables lurk in the wine The drunken-ness of religion, of belief, has many variables lurking within it, which can't be fully bought into, but that's not to say that it's all bunk. Because the bed's warm and its cold out, that's a good sign. This is an obvious metaphor for someone having left recently, but very recently. Considering the rest of the song, and a lot of Spencer's other references, I'd assume it's related to the idea that God was here, but is now gone. Despite this, the warmth of the presence is still here, i.e. religion, but we can't really understand the thing in itself anymore. It's never ever gonna feel right to pull the latch back again. Again, we'll never be able to pull the latch back and see the thing in itself again. Because the dust you kick up is too fine. Similar to the left over warmth -- the dust is there, but it's too fine to fully grasp and pin down. It's all too ethereal. |
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| Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My mind went to Turing at first too. It makes a lot of sense as a break up song, as well, but yeah, Turing's homosexuality fits perfectly in the second half of this song, especially as he was such a hero, and then they convicted and chemically castrated him. Relating the first part to him just being a code cracker, then his gears wearing down as he's trying to hide his homosexuality, and the "hows my living?" stanza being about him trying to covertly let out his secret, but it eventually "casting a pall" as people hear and reject him totally. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| 100% accurate. | |
| Animal Collective – Brother Sport Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Also, it could be that "it sucks that daddy's gone." | |
| Animal Collective – Brother Sport Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree. I know that Noah wrote Young Prayer when his dad died, and I think this song is him reaching out to his brother trying to get him to cope with his dad's death and growing up without a dad. I would say that it's either "Daddy's dead" or "Daddy's done." | |
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