| Third Eye Blind – One in Ten Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One in Ten because "One In Ten people are gay". Though they actually think it might be One in Five now. I know a local gay organization called One In Ten. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Sweet Marie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Raspberry sunshine. I know what it means, at least to me, but it is so hard to explain. It is summer and youth and young love and tart excitement. Maybe raspberries are a good fruit to use in this song because they are made up of many small drupelets all connected to make one single fruit. In herbal medicine raspberries are believed to help regulate menses... Raspberry plants can be invasive as they are hardy. I suppose raspberries signify connection for me, the power of connection. Few people would consider raspberries "powerful" because they are sweet and watery and dependent on sunshine. |
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| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I do not suggest that The Decemberists had this in mind when writing this song. But I relate so much to the song in this certain way, and this is what the song means to me: This song to me is about the gay civil rights movement. Sons and daughters, these are the GLBTQ youth (I identify as such). The narrator is talking to us. Promising things will get better. Things are not perfect yet. GLBTQ are given aluminum to build our walls, cinnamon to fill our mouths. Aluminum is weak, cinnamon will not sustain life. Gays do not have equal rights, and still are bullied and harassed. We must make a home for ourselves on the water (maybe we lost our previous home, because we weren't accepted for who we are). in the harbor (the harbor representing a place where many people come together from different pasts, like the gay community). The gay community comes together because we are disowned and turned away by the dominant group. "Take up your arms Sons and daughters We will arise from the bunkers By land, by sea, by dirigible We'll leave our tracks untraceable now" some of us lost our families and communities when we came out. Now all we have is the cause, the movement. We can take up our arms (figuratively). By land by sea by dirigible: all of the different ways we can help the movement. Our tracks are untraceable because our past doesn't matter, all ties to that can be cut. It makes more sense to me if it is "here all the bombs fade away", not "hear", because it can be saying here, in our own community, the violence, hatred, and homophobia don't exist, at least not as much. those things, those bombs, they are faded and further away. |
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