| Sister Hazel – Save Myself Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about fighting your own battles...and knowing that you have to become good enough for someone to earn the right to be them. :) | |
| April Sixth – Dear Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is meant to be written as a letter, not in stanzas It's supposed to be like a letter that the guy is writing to his "angel" who hurt him and while initially he was torn by their break up, at the end he is free to break away...or so he says, but then betrays with his whispered "sincerely yours" |
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| April Sixth – Dear Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is meant to be written as a letter, not in stanzas It's supposed to be like a letter that the guy is writing to his "angel" who hurt him and while initially he was torn by their break up, at the end he is free to break away...or so he says, but then betrays with his whispered "sincerely yours" |
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| Iron & Wine – Resurrection Fern Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| That is always what this song makes me think of! | |
| Iron & Wine – Dearest Forsaken Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It sounds more like "Watch out the river has you boy" and "human forces of nature" to me... |
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| Iron & Wine – Boy with a Coin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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How is it possible that 12 lines can hold so much meaning? I find myself listening to it over and over again, just trying to decide what exactly it could mean... this is what I've found: The boy found something of worth, the coin, amongst 'weeds' or the bad things in the world. This is then more clearly defined as violence (bullets) and greed (trade magazines). But, while this would make it seem as if the boy is merely seeking the best in life despite the troubles that surround him, there is a seed of negligence (caused by his innocence and naiveté?) that leaves him un-feeling towards the victims of the crash. This accident itself has a profound meaning, for it 'flipped on the turn', which eludes to a turning point in life...perhaps where the victim began to push God out of their life and thus lost a deeper meaning for existence. The part with the girl finding a bird really lost me in some aspects, but the idea that it's referring to rape seems logical. But, I think it was like she sought, and found, love (from an adult) in the cold, lifelessness of her life (the snow). And so, she knows about sex because of innocence stripped from her during her search for affection. The question ‘if God made her eyes for crying at birth then left the ground to circle the earth’ is a fragment of a question, for it does not say ‘than…’ (remember “if this than that” statements from English?) I assume this wasn’t done on accident, so perhaps it’s suggesting that even if God did make her to suffer and then abandoned her, there is no way to respond to it…she is helpless. Consequently, this means it is wiser to look on the world with optimism, as if all things are going your way, rather than believing the world and even God is working against you, because even if the latter was true, you couldn’t do anything about it. I always get a mental image during the last verse of a young boy walking along the sea shore, trying to figure out what to do with his life. The piece of good fortune the boy found at the beginning (the coin) was all he had left to his name. A coin, however, is hardly enough to pay for anything, and so the boy throws the last fragment of hope he had hoarded for so long. But, there is still some selfishness behind this. While making a wish and throwing the coin is a way of giving to (and taking from) himself a tiny sliver of hope, it is also how he prevents society from having a piece of himself. Then, when the boy turns around to face the world that has become desolate, as though abandoned by God, he knows that at least a part of him and his dreams will remained un-marred by the cruelty of man. |
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