| Joanna Newsom – Yarn and Glue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| could be an extremely superfluous allusion to the independent music industry. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Go Long Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this may be a direct reference to Will Oldham, considering his stage moniker to be "Bonnie PRINCE Billy," and there are countless allusions to palaces, Indian Princes, etc. | |
| Smog – All Your Women Things Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Joanna was born in 1982. She's 28, and if she were born in 1997 it would make her 13. However, she is unlikely the subject of this song, since of the written date (considering the years Joanna and Bill dated) | |
| Smog – All Your Women Things Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Joanna was born in 1982. She's 28, and if she were born in 1997 it would make her 13. However, she is unlikely the subject of this song, since of the written date (considering the years Joanna and Bill dated) | |
| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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does anyone else here see an allusion to Synthia Plath's "Totem?" "There is no mercy in the glitter of cleavers, The butcher's guillotine that whispers: 'How's this, how's this?' In the bowl the hare is aborted, Its baby head out of the way, embalmed in spice, Flayed of fur and humanity. Let us eat it like Plato's afterbirth," |
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| Joanna Newsom – Esme Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about the birth of the child, and Joanna's grievance at the change she has brought. There are themes of reluctant love, but a love that grows. I think it definitely has undertones of lonliness, and bereavement of the changes Esme has brought, yet her softening and the eventual feelings of unconditional love she feels, as exemplified by the lines "the phantom of love...etc." I may be completely off the mark, but anyways, that's what I've come to think. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Esme Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i hope you don't mind me asking, but how do you know? the song suits the birth of a child immensely well. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Flying a Kite Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm absolutely positive this is about the loss of innocence, however, one stanza sort of puzzles me, it does not connect with that theory. You dare my dream of snowy cloth Felt snapping white as albatross Is bitten by the wind and rocks Is hushed into the clary moss Is ushered here to count his loss My kite; pale cotton, willow cross I think this is an obvious reference to Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christianity. Samuel Coleridge had immensely strong ties to Catholicism and Rime of the Ancient Mariner has strong themes and undertones of Christianity as well as christian values. Interesting. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Ribbon Bows Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I haven't heard the music for this yet, anyone know if it's been released yet? But the lyrics are contemplative as ever! | |
| Joanna Newsom – The Fray Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it may have to do with american values, since there are alot of baseball references, and baseball is viewd as the great american pasttime. | |
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