| (+44) – 155 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I somehow got the impression that the verse and the chorus are from the perspectives of two different people speaking to each other. But maybe not... | |
| Tokyo Police Club – Graves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm probably way off and I'll be the first to admit it, but I see a lot of similarities between the lyrics and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. [By the way, spoiler alert for the whole post for anyone who hasn't read this 150+ year old book yet.] The lyrics from the point of view of Heathcliff speaking to younger Catherine about her mother, older Catherine. I mostly think this because Heathcliff asked to be buried next to older Catherine with the adjacent sides of each of their coffins removed so that the dirt they rot into will mix. Older Catherine also did trade him for the lump sum, Edgar Linton, the wealthier and more stable of her two suitors. As hard as she tried, she couldn't make Heathcliff, who the family picked up off of the streets as a child, into a gentlemen and any of her efforts did last very long as he became very violent and crazy towards the end of the book. Older Catherine also could only treat the symptoms of her own insanity but could not treat the root of the problem and quickly died early in the book. |
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| Titus Andronicus – Upon Viewing Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I could be wrong but I feel like it's from the point of view of Jesus? How many other people were born into self-actualization? He also didn't exactly get to be buried on the side of a hill. Though, the lyrics seem much angrier than Jesus, so it's iffy... | |
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