| Amanda Palmer – Idioteque (Radiohead cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love Radiohead and kind of like the Dresden Dolls but I expected this cover to suck - it is AWESOME. | |
| Bright Eyes – Blue Angels Air Show Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I find it interesting that no one has commented on this song's similiarities to Take it Easy (Love Nothing), especially in the guitar and drum sounds but also in the vocal melody at points. They were almost the first things I noticed about it and it seems to me that Take it Easy could be kind of a sequel to this. Anyway with that in mind, here's my interpretation: I think Claire is Conor's cousin, a couple of years younger than him but maturing more quickly. As kids they were really close and hung out and talked about their crushes. Conor probably felt really protective of her and he would have always seemed so much older and wiser. Then I think, in the space between the first and second verses, she suddenly seemed to be growing up so much faster than him and perhaps they started drifting apart. A 12 year old Claire could have been telling a 14 or 15 year old Conor about her first boyfriend and he didn't want to admit that he'd never kissed a girl, they gradually lost their places in each other's lives. In the second verse, particularly the lines: "The way doors can open and people just walk in It's not unexpected, no, it's just how you planned it" I think he's a little bit older, and now he's finally caught up and has met his own first girlfriend and, as un-Conor as it sounds, he's saying it really is a great as he expected. He's in love, in that intense, absolute way only teenagers can be. In the third verse, I think he's using a kind of double meaning with the airshow. Perhaps he and Claire used to go to the Blue Angels Air Show as children, and he still kind of misses that, so that's what he's literally talking about. But also, he's using the airshow as a metaphor for sex, or perhaps still for love - I think sex, because it ties into Take it Easy better that way. As for the fourth verse, I really don't know. It seems like a happy ending, maybe as simple as his becoming good friends with Claire again. I think it could be a little darker though, probably about his first breakup. I think the line "We struggled so long" is referring to the fact that maybe the relationship wasn't as perfect as he claimed, that it had been turbulent for a while but he thought that was normal, and the second half "but it ended so easy" says that suddenly she just finished on him, unexpectedly and quick, and he had no idea what he was supposed to do. And Take it Easy, I think, is a deeper discussion into the same relationship, probably with a a perspective of a few years later. It seems to be the same story told more specifically from Conor's viewpoint than in this which is at times quite ambiguous. |
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