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| Kings of Convenience – The Build-Up Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Studiolemontree and pdfreires are bang on in my opinion. Those lyrics sung by Feist when related to a relationship are so sad yet so beautiful. Ending a relationship or settling down in the wrong relationship is so confusing and so sad, I feel this song captures that beautifully and eloquently. And right now, faced potentially with one of these options and not knowing which is right, this song never fails to draw a tear. |
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| Nick Drake – Harvest Breed Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I utterly agree, I hadn't been able to put it into words but you've done it beautifully. This acceptance of his inevitable death sets the scene for From the Morning, where he celebrates what is beautiful in life and nature, ultimately describing his soul departing the world to become part of the intrinsic fibre of the universe. It's an astonishing album. |
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| Nick Drake – From The Morning Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The whole album is a work of art in its flow, in fact all three of his albums are. Pink Moon (the album) is full of despair, pain, rejection, self loathing - partly I feel as a result of being around a place and people so far removed from nature (London).
To me, this song encapsulates the release of his soul from that cruel painful world to a place of peace. He's had enough, he's fallen from grace, he's accepted his fate - the album up to this point has confirmed that. Here he celebrates how beautiful life can be when you're at one with nature. And thenthrough death, we return to this very nature, to the true beauty intrinsic in the universe. The 'she' always makes me think of an unrequited love of his - but who no longer is an issue, her soul too is flying now and time has no meaning. But to the rest of us still here, he simply says, go and enjoy life, don't be too serious, love and abide with nature.
I felt this right to my inner core when I first listened to this album, this was the first song ever to bring me to tears. Keith Jones - that one word says it all and thank you for keeping his songs alive. |
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| Nick Drake – Things Behind the Sun Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree with the vast majority of takes here. The last verse has always intrigued me, like there's a lot of hope - say the truth no matter if it brings contempt, but then you just think anyway, well what's the point - everything's been said, "there's nothing new under the sun" etc. It really captures that duality of mindset, somewhere between hope and despair.
One of those songs I've really come to understand as I've got older. Drake was a lot older than his years |
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| Nick Drake – One Of These Things First Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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That's brilliant! I'd been thinking this way about the song recently but you've taken it even further than what I was imagining. I agree it's a 'what if?' song in metaphors, written after the end of a relationship. I disagree with some others that the song is happy - it has a happy melody and chords but the lyrics have a sad and melancholy theme. It's a song about 'if only I had been different', 'if only things had worked out better'. |
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