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| The Mountain Goats – Color in Your Cheeks Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Yeah, as always songs can have more than one meaning. But I like the "brotherhood of man" one better because if it was a drughouse, that would just kill me. It's already a sad enough song.
"but five minutes looking in his eyes and we all knew he
was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had."
I think maybe it's a bunch of friends that live together and maybe are alcoholics or druggies but maybe not a house that sells drugs. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Are You Cleaning Off the Stone? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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LOL! Are you Cleaning off that Rock? Someone really has to fix that. mdon06, that's a fantastic interpretation that makes a lot of sense. But oh man! Morbid! I always love the part where he says "that kind of information just floors me" |
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| Iron & Wine – Sodom, South Georgia Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is one of my favorite Iron and Wine songs. I know some have said that there was no point in figuring out what the "song was about" if Beam himself doesn't know but I always think that it can be value as long as you don't analyze it to death. The only think I never really understood is the lines "both heads fell like/eyes on a crack in the door" Bizarre image. I don't know if I can actually picture it the way I can picture everything else in the song. What I love about Sam's lyrics is that they're beautiful and deeply disturbing at the same time. |
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| Iron & Wine – Sodom, South Georgia Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I know you wrote this 4 years ago but I still think it's important to say. I think you have some good points, Enough5, but I think it's way to big a jump to assume the papa character in the song was a member of the KKK. White can stand for many things besides the KKK. I definitely agree that this song has very strong undertones of racism especially the "all dead white boys say 'God is good'". In this case, I would agree with others that white means purity. |
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| Aesop Rock – Coffee (feat. John Darnielle) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I wasn't sure at first how JD's part of the song fit with the things that AR was saying but I think I have it. I think JD's character is having difficulty dealing with the society that AR talks about. JD sings " - i crawled down to the basement when the weather got cold, like a lost lamb returning to the fold." So when things get tough, he conforms to society. "And when the outside world recedes from view, it's just a year's supply of make-up and memories of you" This character seems to have lost his girlfriend and feels lost without her. Unlike Going to Georgia, it seems the colt 45 is protecting him rather than threatening him because he says "1967 colt 45, holding back the vampires, keeping me alive" I think the vampires represent society. "there's an envelope with some cash in it out by the front door" I think the character's probably mixed up in drugs. "this is what they make you take the medication for" I think this means the craziness of his society. Maybe I have way over simplified this because it seems like AR's messages are pretty complex but I tried my best. |
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| The Mountain Goats – This Year Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I have heard people be confused about the line "if it kills me". I know most people know this expression but a few don't. It basically means "if it's the last thing I do."
I love this song so much. I have listened to it way too many times. |
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