| Amanda Palmer – Oasis Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Oasis is a Huge band who are against abortion Amanda is pro-abortion and uses the Oasis bit as an ironic stab at consertative view |
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| Amanda Palmer – Ampersand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really like the fact that although the song IS about her inability to commit and be half of a pair... It also adds that extra slighty unbalanced nature so typical of her work. If you read the lyrics carefully, you realise that the thread of it is as follows... She walks past a group of firefighters. She reaches home and talks to the boys (highlighting her expression of personal freedom) She contemplates her past fascination with fire, and with her partner. She realises that he is all into commitment and she is not. She leaves him. She wakes up and the fire she saw earlier has "ironically" burnt down the whole bock except her apartment. Why is this ironic.... It is because SHE STARTED THE FIRE! She is in FACT! the crazy one in the song... or IS she? This layering of Palmer's songs are what makes them fascinating as lyrics. And the music totally contemplates this multiplicity. |
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