| The Jayhawks – All The Right Reasons Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree with the sneak up on you part - and he doesn't understand how love happens but he accepts it. As for little babies, I think he is saying it is the same as how babies just absorb what is around them and smile laugh cry, they have no choice like we have no choice. life happens and we can't help how we feel. |
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| John Prine – Lake Marie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The tale about the indians is part fiction - although the lakes were named for two girls, Elizabeth and Mary. Prine once commented that "if they hadn't named the lakes after two white girls the waters would have remained peaceful", yet he was aware that the lakes were the site of strife between whites and natives in the past. Perhaps the murder is a comment on not only the shame of the media but the general strife that whites have brought to what was once a peaceful place (although I'd question how peaceful life was when it was just the natives about, given what we know about tribal warfare in these areas in the past). In any case, I'd say the other point of the song is that sometimes you are so caught up in your own perspective that you fail to see beyond it. I suppose they saw the news report, probably of Gacy or Dahmer's work, and thought a lot of things - how it could have been them, or maybe just how it destroyed one of their happier memories, and then perhaps thanks only to the prevalence of the media. It folds back on itself, as the people murdered had their own story that nobody else knew. |
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| Iron & Wine – Die Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| After a bit more thought, I think he is saying we are all in denial. | |
| Iron & Wine – Die Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with bananapeel but lie couragemonbrave I also think there is a connection to the AIDS theme...the last lines say no matter how we try we are not afraid to die, which I think is a testament to the human spirit, that despite how bad things can get we still as humans choose to live without fearing death but on the aids theme, the song is also about living within an illusion, that we are blameless, and in that sense no matter how we try we are not afraid to die seems to imply that we should make different choices and come out of the illusion that we are invincible and unafraid of death |
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| Joni Mitchell – Carey Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIYyX-P1Iw She tells it here! |
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