| Yacht – Psychic City (Voodoo City) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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My interpretation is kind of post-modern. The final lines, "I told you your dreams would come true" remind me of the first section of the song ("psychic city"), as if the speaker of those final lines were psychic. It makes the song feel like it went somewhere and had a story, when really there was none. And who's to say that isn't just as good? It still has the same emotional impact even though it's not real. If we interpret it linearly we see that our protagonist used to live in all these cities, psychic, voodoo, and heartbeat. The first two cities are a little creepy. In the psychic city, a friend comes to her window and tells her to come to a party (euphemism for a cult/religion gathering?) in that low, monotone drone. In the voodoo city, the kitchen holds her hostage and bakes a cake for her. But in the final city, the heartbeat city, we are told her dreams come true. The beginning of the album (Ring the Bell, The Afterlife) seems to espouse an atheist worldview. So maybe this song is all a metaphor for losing faith. The psychic city represents religious conversion/indoctrination. The voodoo city represents how religion holds people hostage with fear. And the heartbeat city represents losing faith and gaining freedom and happiness. The music video seems to be about breaking free from the constraints of faith-based beliefs as well. We see a priest and a wiccan performing their rituals, then fighting. But in the end, none of it matters because they end up abandoning their allegiances and coming together to make sweet, sweet angry love. |
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| All-Time Quarterback – Untitled Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it should be "story lined", not "storyline". Great song :) |
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