| Imogen Heap – Propeller Seeds Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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What I hear...fairly certain it's right: Propeller seeds, Corridor scene Talk on, walk out. It took me a minute; my mind was on other things. Oh, you got me at "Paris" I must be coming down with something to be thinking this What's happening here? I'm growing roots through my toes, And leaves from my fingertips, Unfold Where does this story go? Queue Food Drink up Continue We float in tandem, past name tags and shaking hands Immune to the hubbub of others We're deep in discussion, The party's on mute. (Oh whoa, oh whoa) Our bubble's got it covered (Ooh...) You want me, well you've got me it doesn't have to be today I can't believe I said that out loud... What's happening here? I'm growing roots through my toes, Then leaves from my fingertips, I'm falling What does this story know? Wedding rings, children? Are all the good ones taken? Rickshaw Disco Goodnight kiss, oh Cold shower Call me for sweet...dreams of him Where does this story go? (whoa whoa) What does this story know? (whoa whoa) What does this story hold..for us? |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about the general evolution and nature of humans. "He stumbled into faith and thought, "God, this is all there is?" The pictures in his mind arose, And began to breathe. And all the gods and all the worlds Began colliding on a Backdrop of Blue." This makes me thing of 'He' being man, stumbling into the idea of religion and God, and finding the world around him to be not enough - not enough things, always wanting more technology, more food, human greediness. Also, not finding life enough - having to find the idea of a God, the idea of death being too hard to face. These are the pictures that arise in man's mind and begin to evolve and complicate. All of the Gods man has invented, stories and worlds and heavens, all begin to explode in the mind, colliding together on this blue planet. "Blue lips, Blue veins." This alludes to our humanity. All of this happens around us. It shows that this is what life is based in - humanity. In the end, everything we have, we have made. This is what life is - blood running through our veins, then when we die, our lips turn blue, which human imagination thinks of alternatives for, and for what happens then. "He took a step, but then felt tired. He said, "I'll rest a little while." But when he tried to walk again, He wasn't a child. And all the people hurried fast, Real fast, And no one ever smiled." I think this refers to the evolution of man. It makes me think of how we used to evolve more than we are, but it seems we aren't going to evolve as much anymore, as we now can do whatever we need to using technology. We're not going to learn to fly or breathe underwater or anything like that. This is what the 'felt tired' implies to me - we evolved, then turned to technology instead of evolving further. However, people's attitudes and behaviours have changed, so from being a species who were basically in the childhood stage (naive, innocent, helpful), we have become a race of people scared of each other, not trusting anyone, and too involved in our own lives to help anybody else. I think it really shows what we have become without even noticing. "Blue lips, Blue veins. Blue, The color of our planet from far, far away." The addition of the planet comment emphasises how humanity is everything. It shows how small and insignificant everything really is, as well as how us 'blue' creatures have created everything we know. Our religions, jobs, money, we made it all - yet in the end it doesn't mean anything. We are all tiny, and in the end, we die. "He stumbled into faith and thought, "God, this is all there is?" The pictures in his mind arose, And began to breathe. And no one saw, and no one heard. They just followed the lead. The pictures in his mind arose, And began to breed." This again shows man evolving, and the 'no one saw, and no one heard / they just followed the lead', I believe, depicts the lack of individuality in humanity. It shows how almost everyone used to believe in religion, how everybody has grown to behave now, and how nobody is that different from anybody else - and if they are, they're often too scared to be. Nobody realises they are following the crowd, but they are. If we link the next verse... "The pictures in his mind arose, And began to breed. They started out beneath the knowledge tree. Then they chopped it down to make white picket fences, And, marching along the railroad tracks, They smile real wide for the camera lenses. They made it past the enemy lines Just to become enslaved in the assembly lines." The start of this verse hits me the most. I think this shows how man doesn't find what we have been given enough, so ideas begin to flow. The ideas start under the knowledge tree (obviously biblical reference). Nature and pure knowledge are not enough for man. Man feels the need for more, and cuts down this tree in an attempt to gain more, but in doing so, cuts off man from our natural, beautiful roots. The 'picket fences' can also be taken as barriers between different races, different Gods. "marching along the railroad tracks, They smile real wide for the camera lenses" I think this shows how materialistic and industrial we have become. We don't want knowledge - we want fences, trains, cameras. And we grin our wide, fake smiles, for our plastic cameras, saying that we are happy, and this is what we want. "They made it past the enemy lines Just to become enslaved in the assembly lines" This, and I'm probably off, but it hits me in a few ways...Firstly how humans seem to be fighting to make our world better - we cut down the knowledge tree, we use the earth's resources. We are fighting to give our lives meaning. This gives me the impression of making it past the enemy lines, only to be enslaved somewhere else...death. No real meaning. Another, and the one I prefer, is how we made it past natural 'barriers', pushing our technology so we can fly, stay underwater for hours etc...we have made it past the barrier of evolution, but now we are stuck in this society of working to 'feed the beast', building cars, and technology, going through the motions of life. We are living in an assembly line - life is no longer beautiful, it is mass-produced and ironically meaningless. It's about money and material things. We have to conform and follow the same path as everybody else. Then the only difference from them is "Blue, The most human color." We see our blue veins in life, our blue lips in death, our blue planet from far away. When we're sad we're described as 'blue'. Blue is a very human colour, and it ties all of us together - but humans forget that, choosing to leave in a mass produced, meaningless world, not trusting anyone. Essay finished XD |
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