| The Dresden Dolls – Delilah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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One thing that kind of bugs me about this song is the line "You're an unrescuable schizo Or else you're on the rag." Calling someone insane and blaming their period on making them crazy don't seem like things Amanda would do, and that always bothered me :/ It's pretty accusatory and unsympathetic. But I mean, a lot of people have said a lot of different things about this song and who it's actually about and all that, and I could be totally misinterpreting what she's trying to say. And besides that, in the end it's pretty clear that she cares about Delilah anyway. Anyone have any opinions? |
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| Peaches – Two Guys (For Every Girl) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, speaking as a dude that likes dudes... Damn this song is hot. I really love how up-front about sex Peaches is, it's kind of liberating c: |
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| Cake Bake Betty – Song of the Sea Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is my favorite song on the album. I think it's about not knowing where you're going with your life and feeling like a failure just like the rest of your family, and just saying "fuck it, I'll just be a sailor like grandpa." | |
| Belle & Sebastian – I Don't Love Anyone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song. To me it seems like it's about somebody that's trying to sound all cool and mature but all he manages to do is be adorable. This is a good song to listen to when I'm in a bad mood, it just makes me feel like sulking makes you look silly. | |
| The Decemberists – A Bower Scene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I might be talking out my ass here, but I'm pretty sure that this foreshadows the way Margaret and William die. It mentions in the last song on the album that Margaret is "A river's daughter" and the sister calls her her daughter and asks her about "troubling the water", as well as calling the father of her child an "irascible blackguard." I think that this "sister" is the river that drowns the two of them later on to kill William and to free Margaret from this whole mess she's gotten herself into. | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Okay, so some of the stuff I'm thinking may or may not have already been pointed out in other threads before, but eh, who cares, I'll just say it anyway. JimWM, I agree with you partially on the idea that the "Didn't I/Didn't I" lines are an apology, but I think it's only William that's doing the apologizing, because Margaret did NOTHING to deserve anything that happened to her. When I first heard this song and read the lyrics I thought I might be wrong and that maybe the two of them loved each other after all, but William mentions that Margaret is "A river's daughter", which makes me think of the nymphs from Greek/Roman mythology that gods like Zeus constantly went around raping and impregnating, often by luring them in the guise of some kind of an animal. Which is pretty much exactly what happens in the first "Hazards of Love" song. All Margaret did was try to help a hurt fawn, and she got raped and impregnated for it, she got kidnapped by The Rake, and she angered the forest queen, who allowed The Rake to take Margaret to his fortress by calming the river for him. And she barely does anything during the course of the story, she's practically just an object for everyone else's desires. I also think that Margaret had something to do with the river drowning both of them, because death was the only way Margaret could be happy. The lines "These hazards of love/Nevermore will trouble us" to me are about the fact that death is the only way Margaret could have escaped being the object of a man's desires. Maybe she controlled the river herself, or maybe the river, being her "father" took things into its own hands, but I definitely think Margaret had something to do with it. You could argue that it was only because William promised it his life, but the fact that the river was raging when The Rake flew over it makes it seem like it had been trying to protect her from the start and didn't drown them just because of William's promise. Why else would it drown Margaret as well? William only promised it his own life, not hers. But I think that it knew that dying was the only way Margaret would truly be free. And that gets back to the "Didn't I/didn't I" lines (I know that was a little long and convoluted, but I feel pretty passionately about this story). I think that those lines are William apologizing to Margaret because he has finally realized that he dragged her into this whole mess, that none of this is at all her fault, and that she doesn't deserve any of it. I don't think that Margaret truly loved William until he apologized to her and finally saw her as something more than an object, and that makes this song incredibly beautiful and tragic. William finally sees Margaret as an equal aaaaaand then they both die, the end. |
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