| Electrelane – Saturday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Obviously about missing someone - still doesn't hide the fact that it's a great song. | |
| Eisley – Marvelous Things Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Children don't care, everything is magically beautiful to them. Alice followed the talking rabbit without thinking, "Gee, that's really weird that this rabbit has a pocketwatch and can talk!" You know? They're stuck in their childlike mentality but know enough to find everything magical a little creepy. Beautiful, but dark. Eerie. They're realizing that even magic can be grim and are scared? I feel like they're constantly going from child to adult, child to adult, shifting. They let themselves be children and then remind themselves how weird dreamlike things actually are. "Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby" - Hold tight makes me feel like this person is afraid of the night and another person is trying to coax him/her into sleep. I also think these might be words of comfort, maybe a lullaby someone sang to them to free them of bedtime, nightmarish worries. I can imagine them chanting these words when they're scared, or trying to make themselves wake up when they begin to see the strangeness of all that's surrounding them. "morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely" - I still feel like this is part of a lullaby. Sleep now and tomorrow it will go away. Monsters, ghosts, ghouls can't survive in the light. The imagery of this makes me crazy - I can just see children restlessly sleeping until the sun seeps into the windows, blinding, and washes them with a sense of relief and warmth. I feel like while they're experiencing these creepy, marvelous things a part of them is terrified and waiting for the light to come and wash everything away. And this entire song is possibly a dream in itself - it seems very strobe-like and disjointed. Confusing, like a dream or nightmare. Needless to say this song gives me the chills. I feel like, while she was dreaming she was excited at first to find magic but as she went further into her alice-and-wonderland adventure everything started twisting and becoming strange and all she wanted to do was wake up. "oh lying in the sun everyday feeling all of the magic and might find the wonder" - After she's woken up, lying in the sun and knowing now that everyday magic and wonder is probably just as enticing as what she'd just dreamed. I don't think she yearns for magic anymore but can now appreciate real-life beauty. Sorry, I know I go off on tangents but I can't help it. That's just what I see when I hear this song. |
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| Eisley – I Wasn't Prepared Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always liked to think that this song was about falling in love for the first time. Literally, unexpectedly taking a plunge and tumbling into it. That overwhelming wave of affection you have for another person... well, she wasn't prepared for it. People can fall in love, sure, and then there's that person who just kicks you sideways off of your feet and drags you and loves you and you never, ever forget about him/her because of how strongly you felt for each other. I can imagine her sitting, thinking, pondering about this boy and realizing the true extent of her feelings for him. That's where the vulnerability and helplessness come from in this song, I think. She just wasn't prepared. And then I can see her sitting on a different day, remembering this boy and mourning the love that they once had. Everyone has a first love to remember, and hardly anyone actually ends up marrying their first love. I think that's why, in the second verse, she has the bees trace his face for her instead of actually going to be with him. It's in the past. She's reminiscing. I don't think she actually wants to be with him, just that she misses the love that they shared and the times that they were together. That's how I hear it, at least. |
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| Eisley – Just Like We Do Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree, I think it's a very maternal song. A family love. Even if it was written for a lover, it has an intense intimate sound that reminds me of the way spouses whisper to each other when they think no one is paying attention. Sweetness. It envelopes me, I can hardly stand it. Love. A general love for the world, she believes it exists. I can tell when she sings this song she really believes love exists. I think that's what makes it so powerful - very few people can give the word "love" the life it truly deserves. It makes me believe, too. |
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