| Right Away, Great Captain! – Right Ahead, Young Sailor! Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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god i love this song so much. like you've all said, i just can't get tired of it. i listened to andy's version live at the bread and wrote down the lyrics as best i could. here's what i got: oh sweet anna, did you see what you did to me? i've been trying hard to be cautious. i've been sinking, i've been sinking in the deep blue seas, how long can you count to a thousand? i tried drinking, but the bottle is still empty. love is nothing more than a fraction. i tried swimming, but i guess you could not love me. love is nothing more than a thousand. well i could be a bigger man, bigger man; i could be a bigger man, bigger man, but i just wanna kill a man, kill a man. really what's a bigger man? my good leader, what a self-loathing web you weave, i have got a son and a daughter. my young sailor, what a point that you just can't see. don't you think that they need a father? well i tried drinking, but my god, i'm still so empty, i can only hope for a fresh one. well i tried swimming but in the end it's going to be okay[?]. i can only hope for a loved one. so really what's a bigger man, bigger man? let's do it for the bigger man, bigger man. well i just want to see the plan, see the plan. really what's a plan? so my sweet darling, i am writing from on the sea; i cannot tell you how much i miss you. i swore jesus was watching, watching over me, but sometimes i am frankly not convinced that all that i'm seeing is nothing but misery. god i love myself more than you did. so don't stop breathing, god i just need to breathe. love is nothing more than an action. |
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| Bon Iver – Creature Fear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i would say that this song is personal, definitely, and is about this savagery of man. it talks so much about reforming and having laws; it seems like it's about the fear we have of living without rules, in a way. it's the fear of trusting people, especially after they've hurt us. it's the fear of being exposed to the world, instead of hiding away from it all. that's how i see it, at least. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can't Stop Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i kinda see it as being about life as a musician. he seems to have a lot of references to music and drugs.. not really sure though. nonetheless, this song is brilliant :) |
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| Bright Eyes – Racing Toward the New Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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jeez. conor oberst is a god. this song has to be my favorite, though i haven't found one yet that i've disliked. it hits on some of our basic fears; being alone, forgetting what we know.. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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so many people say this song is depressing, but i have to disagree. You said, "I'm done feeling like a skeleton No more sleepwalking dead" You're going to wake from this coma You're going to crawl from this bed you have made it's a turn around, isn't it? a critical moment of realization? it's like he's sick of the routine of getting high and crashing and getting drunk and passing out. i also think this is about conor, not a friend. so many of his songs are sort of autobiographical, and we know conor had a drug addiction... |
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| Bright Eyes – I've Been Eating (For You) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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about this whole eating disorder thing... i don't think it has anything to do with a terrible self-esteem, but his depression. one sympton of depression is a loss of appetite. this girl, whoever she was, probably made him feel better, happier, more free, and when she left, his depression hit again... but i also think scarletbegonianb's theory was rather good, about 'eating' being a euphamism for 'living'.... |
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