| Cursive – What Have I Done? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Actually, since Tim doesn't have a daughter (to my knowledge) that last one may not be right considering how personal this song is.. but man, it REALLY sounds like it. | |
| Cursive – What Have I Done? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Pretty sure the question marks can be filled with "tell me, father" "let my mama know" and "tell me, daughter".. not necessarily in that order... but, that is what I hear. It can be much easier understood on the Shockhound sessions: http://www.shockhound.com/videos/490-shock-sessions--cursive |
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| Kevin Devine – Carnival Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love that take. I only wonder why he says all the other stuff is ALREADY not real, but she isn't not real yet (terrible sentence, but you get the idea). | |
| Kevin Devine – Carnival Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No one has really taken a stab at this, hm? Alright... well.. I'm going to say that the carnival is probably a lifestyle, partying, drugs, women, whatever. He finds someone that wants him to stop all of this (suggestion never works) and he is going to try for her. The problems is that as soon as he tries to quits, the old life style keeps calling out to him (classic forbidden fruit example), or he feels like it is following him (and for the record I'm 99% sure he says "I quit the carnival, IT moved next door (meaning he just couldn't get away from it)). So, instead of dealing with his lust for the old life style, he embraces it and cheats on the promise he made with the girl to stay away. The lion taming may just be an image of him being the center of attention, he tamed it and took it's power (like at a circus, the idea is that the lion tamer is more powerful than the lion... so when everyone should be thinking "wow! It's a lion!" they're thinking "wow! look at that guy taming that lion!". So, if the lion "Scares him back in his place" maybe he realized that he ISN'T the center of attention any more (age maybe has a play in this)... but either way, I would say this is when he decides not to pursue it anymore. There's a lot of imagery in this writing that I think is more about the situation than a specific representation to an object. The lion, the sword, I think these are just general ideas of things that he had that he wants again, instead of ACTUAL examples (IE Flaming sword means _____) I think this because they just don't matter. The story progresses without knowing what he was thinking. That being said, I think the flaming sword is just a SOMETHING (anything) that gets him caught. It doesn't matter what it is, what matters is he is in trouble for it. As the "sword" (again, just an image) is pressed against his neck, the girl says "suggestion never works, so now I'm trying something else". The guy embraces it, he did what he felt he had to do and he knows there is no way out of the situation. The rest of the song seems fuzzy to me. Possibly he has a moment of epiphany where he decides that changing is the better way to go... or, more likely, he does it all again (shown by talking to the lion again) and over-does it, putting himself in the hospital. The last part is pretty amazing, he wakes in the hospital, the suit probably shows how desperate he was to get back into the "scene", and then he gets scared for whatever is going to happen (the woman leaving, perhaps?) and he realizes how fake he was for living the life he was living (IE: they're not real, and never were). He is also scared at this time that the girl is going to leave him (and soon she won't be real either) and that he will be left all alone. As the girl comes into the room, the lead character has no idea what to do to keep the girl in his life... and, sadly, this is how the song ends. just my idea, I feel more certain on the first half than the second... anyone else have an ideas? |
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| Kevin Devine – All of Everything, Erased Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hm... the line "90 million miles from the graveyard growing over everything" I'm going to assume is about the sun, as it is about 93 million miles from earth. Great, great, great song. Mostly like everyone else says, I see it as the last few days of humanity, and then the years and years and years of the earth fixing herself. |
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| Kevin Devine – Tomorrow's Just Too Late (newer version) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm not sure how accurate this is concerning the last line in the song. I loved thinking it was something as light-hearted as just a bird hanging around, I pictured a women sitting on a beached area, reflecting, and then the bird bothering her, and her having to move. BUT- I seriously doubt Kevin would do that- so- I dug a little deeper and this is what I found. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tells the story of a ship departing and accidently routing off course and ending up in Antarctica. The crew spots an Albatross and follows it out of the area, effectively saving them. Then, one of the mariners shoots the bird, killing it. The crew, thinking the bird brought the wind that saved them, grow angry at the Mariner for killing it, but that subsides when the ship lands in calmed waters. Once in THESE waters, though, the crew blames the Mariner for their thirst, and in punishment make him wear the albatross around his neck (illustrating the burden he must live with for killing it). Soon after, for the next week, many of the crew members die. The poem goes on, but it kind of loses some of its merit with the rest of the story. I think this section of the poem relates VERY well to the story being told in the song, especially if it is about his aunt who stayed too long in a bad relationship. The albatross would represent the guilt she might feel for leaving him or "killing" the relationship (thus, having to "shake" the albatross- IE getting away from it). eh. Just a thought. |
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