| Radiohead – Talk Show Host Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i always think of the sandwiches as pb&j's ... specifically chunky peanut butter and black raspberry jam ... and then i get hungry. | |
| Cloud Cult – When Water Comes to Life Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song stirs within me a profound sense of spiritural harmony ... much like my favorite book, "siddhartha" by herman hesse ... the unifying theme of both is 'the water'/'the river.' the novel, set in ancient india, follows the spiritual journey of siddhartha, who leaves the comfort of his brahmin home on a quest for enlightment. he attempts to reach this goal through different approaches: depriving himself as an ascetic, accumulating earthly wealth as a merchant ... at the end of the story, however, siddhartha is only able to attain nirvana by listening to the river ... "often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times. and everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. all of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life ... and when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word." the sentiments in both the book and this song are comforting and inspiring ... in a way that's difficult to verbalize. and that's what makes both exquisite pieces of art. |
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| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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regarding the lines, "and i've heard of creatures who eat their babies; and i wonder if they stop to think about the taste" ... filial infanticide, and subsequent cannibalism, is most often caused by sexual conflict and may be committed by either sex. if he suspects his female's offspring descended from another, the male may kill her young to trigger ovulation in the female ... females of many species do not ovulate while they are raising newborns/lactating. similarly, in species in which the male cares for the young, a female might kill the offspring of another, to free up the male. both of these are strategic moves to pass along one's genes ... "and i am a creature. and i am surviving. and i want to be alone, but i want your body." not that referencing natural selection was krug's intention ... it just allows for a new interpretation :) |
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