| Alexisonfire – Burial Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that this song is about being in a rut or a depression, being compared to the winter that has connotations to be cold and endless. The sun, to me, almost seems like a tease, like it makes you feel that there is happiness outside of the dark place but he can't quite succeed in reaching it. He feels stuck in the sad situation but also feels that it might be his demise. And that is my very corny take on this incredibly amazing song :) Dallas Green is such a brilliant vocalist. |
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| Manchester Orchestra – I Can Feel a Hot One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think some of you are taking the meaning too deeply - you never really know what Andy Hull wrote this about, and usually artists will write something and let the people make their own interpretations, but I don't think it's that uncomprehensible. Or maybe I'm completely wrong. When I listen to this song, I definitely get the sense of a car crash or some sort of accident in which his girlfriend, or wife, or whatever sort of significant other you can think of, had some big new to tell him (revealed at the end). I can go through the lines and explain: "I can feel a hot one taking me down and for a moment I could feel the force" -this may be after the car was hit, or whatever, and he's coming back to his senses, feeling like he was almost close to heaven/death but came back down to earth (depending on how you feel about religion - personally, it doesn't play a part in my life, but I've heard that it has in Hull's life) "Fainted to the point of tears, and you were holding on to make a point. What's the point?" -the woman, clearly in pain and in trouble from the crash, seems desperate to tell him something before she passes on, but she never gets to tell him, because she dies. "I'm but a clean man, stable and alone man, Make it so I won't have to try. The faces always stay the same, so I face the fact that I'm just fine, I said that I'm just fine" -I would imagine this is after the fact, and the verse before and some after is from the night of the crash. He seems to be telling himself that he's okay, trying to reassure himself that everything will be alright, but there's still a sense that maybe he's not, until he deciphers the message. "I remember, head down, after you had found out. Manna is a hell of a drug. And I need a little more, I think, because enough is never quite enough. What's enough?" -tons of people are trying to decide on what the allusion to Manna is, and I definitely have to agree with the definition of the food that the israelites ate, but over time people have used it as a term to describe any sort ofo "spiritual nourishment." So, it's not literally a drug but the solace he or she took in religion and sprituality. And obviously, someone wants more of it. "I took it like a grown man crying on the pavement, hoping you would show your face. But I haven't heard a thing you've said in at least a couple hundred days. What'd you say?" -at first, he had difficulties with her death, regretting it and wishing she'd still be alive; whatever took place occurred a while ago, since he's reflecting... possibly, the "what'd you say?" is him still thinking about the message she was trying to deliver in her last few moments "I was in the front seat, shaking it out and I was asking if you felt alright... I never want to hear the truth, I want to hear your voice, it sounded fine, my voice, it sounded fine" -He was shaking himself off after the accident, and literally asking her if she was okay, but he knew something was wrong, other than the fact that she probably wasn't going to be okay. "I could feel my heartbeat taking me down and for the moment, I would sleep alright. Invaded with a selfish fear to keep me up another restless night, another restless night." -He was finally starting to calm down after mourning her death, so by calming down he was able to sleep finally. He felt selfish and guilty for letting her go. "Your blood was dry, you were sober. The feeling of audible cracks, and I could tell it was over from the curtains that hung from your neck" -This one is a little more confusing to me. Maybe he was noting that she never drank and was treating herself well prior to this night... foreshadowing? Possibly, the audible cracks are simply the noises from the crash. And the curtains hanging from her neck? That gave me a lot of ideas. Sorry to be graphic, but maybe it is literally "curtains" of flesh from the wreck? Or possibly the blanket that a coroner would put over a dead body, and this is the narrator finally realizing that she is dead, for good, permanently. "And I realized that then you were perfect and my teeth ripping out of my head. And it looked like a painting I once knew back when my thoughts weren't entirely intact" -The first line about his "teeth ripping out" may be the frustration he felt, both for her death and the fact that he never got to hear what she wanted to tell him, and reflecting on back when his "thoughts weren't entirely intact," AKA after the accident during his grieving, and he remembers how terrible he felt. That, or he's simply saying that his mind felt chaotic, just like another (unrelated) time he felt a loss of control. "So I prayed for what I thought were angels, ended up being ambulances. And the Lord showed me dreams - and my daughter, she was crying inside your stomach" -Simply, he prayed immediately after the accident for her to stay alive, but rather than seeing angels, he saw reality, and ambulances coming to help, and they were what saved his life, but not his girlfriend's. Back to the near present, he found solace in God yet again, where he had dreams of a daughter "inside her stomach." He must have had a premonition that this girl was pregnant, and that was what she was trying to tell him after the accident and before she died. "And I felt love again." -He finds relief knowing what she was really trying to say, since it frustrated him so much before. (By the way, one of the best lines in MO's songs... so raw :D) Sorry it's so ridiculously jumpy, I get a lot of changes in time from during the accident and after the fact when I think about the lyrics. I don't care if you think this isn't what it's supposed to mean, its just my peronal interpretation and what makes sense to me. Heck, maybe I just totally massacred the song (my apologies to the band if I did). Just thought I may as well share. Have fun dissecting these and other lyrics! |
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