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| R.E.M. – Undertow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's so goofy how people read into the lyricism whatever their personal worldview is. I mean, in no way is this song about finding god or some variation of god. Give me a break. That's ridiculous. It's pretty blatant what the intent is here: "It is cold in heaven" (In other words, the opposite of what most religious people think. It's not a warm place.) "I'm not sprouting wings" (This idea of become angelic and floating away into heaven is going to happen to the person in the song. He doesn't believe it, because it's nonsense.) He looks to nature's example instead: "Brother can you see those birds? / They don't look to heaven. / They don't need religion, they can see." Yes, the song isn't knocking someone's religion -- but it is saying (the speaker of the song) that for him he will NEVER believe that stuff. In fact, if he's drowning or dying of cold -- he doesn't believe in god or the devil coming to get him ("Nothing's coming after me") -- you just end and become part of nature once again: "Breathing ourselves". That last bit is very Walt Whitman like. We all die and fall into the earth to become the leaves of grass, the air, etc. It's quite beautiful. |
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| Xiu Xiu – F.T.W. Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Let me first say, I don't know much about Xiu Xiu. I like the band's music a lot though. When I first say the title of this song, I took it to be a reverse of the common acronym "WTF?" to mean, "Fuck The What." It makes sense, since Xiu Xiu/Jamie Stewart is such a strange kind of thinker. As for song meaning: Shit, who knows. All I know is the video created by the band contains references to homosexuality, book covers (including Celine's "Journey to the End of Night") and an odd flipping through books about birds and Darwinian classification. I won't try to dissect all the glory out this song's lyrics -- just make of it what you will. |
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