| Watercolor Paintings – Telephone Wires Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| *Some day I'd like to memorize all the bumps on your body, but I know that it can't be for a while | |
| Bon Iver – Hazelton Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I hear 'still inclined, you're building wide the blame' | |
| The Microphones – I Want Wind To Blow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Phil Elverum on "I Want Wind to Blow": "I don’t remember what got me thinking about storms as a metaphor for emotional turmoil, but there were a bunch of songs on this theme. This one I remember writing, discovering the guitar line, sitting on the guest bed in my friend Mirah’s parents’ house outside Philadelphia in the fall of 2000 in the middle of a long tour. Life at home was confusing and stagnant and so “I want wind to blow.…” means “I want crazy events to happen to me. I’m tired of gray. Give me black or white.” Also, my hometown, Anacortes, is more exposed and more windy on its island than the basin holding Olympia, where I lived at the time. I missed home." http://www.believermag.com/issues/200907/?read=article_elverum |
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| The Microphones – I Felt Your Shape Pt. 2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Let boulders drown" always catches me off guard in the end. Always that sinking feeling.. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – The Sound of Settling Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It could be about a relationship, but I don't think so. I think that it's about settling for the life you having instead of going to get what you want. The life you could be living is always in the back of your thoughts, though, "twisting my stomach into knots." I'm not sure if the "I can't wait to go grey, I'll sit and wonder" is a little sarcastic or not, but it's a reflection on chances to change that you've missed. |
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| The Microphones – I'll Not Contain You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nope, I think he's talking to me, too. All the time. | |
| The Microphones – The Moon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't think I could get tired of any version of this song. | |
| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Where'd you find this at? I'd love to hear it. | |
| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The part of the song that really struck me was this. It feels like he's talking to a loved one who's beaten down from tattered self-esteem from what other people think and has turned to drugs/alcohol to escape her depression. And I could take another hit for you (He's willing to take the "hit" from the mental/physical abuse from the outside world) And I could take away your trips from you (Maybe drug trips?, get her to step away) And I could take away the salt from your eyes (Wiping away her tears) And take away the spitting salt in you (make her stop yelling and being angry at the rest of the world) And I could give you my apologies (He apologizes for what other people have done to her in the past, so she won't have anything to be angry about anymore) By handing over my neologies (Giving her a new start, or more optimistic view on things) And I could take away the shaking knees (From anger, from drugs, from everything) And I could give you all the olive trees (Olive trees are typically a symbol of happiness and peacefulness, he's trying to help her find peace in her tumultuous life) Oh look at the trees and look at my face And look at a place far away from here (He's telling her to look at him and this new world around her for hope, and they can start over somewhere new) |
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