| Iron & Wine – Naked as We Came Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree that this is a purely romantic song. My favourite bit is "Eyes wide open" They know they will die, they accept that. Watching the video makes me think that one of the things Sam is hoping to say is live well love well and die happily. Once all the food of life has been enjoyed, you should be happy to go. But loving someone and experiencing life with someone makes you live forever in those memories and experience you had together (the fish at the end of the clip) Almost like dying is fine because ultimately love, because it is so pure and renders us so vulnerable (naked as we came) wins out. I love all of Sam's work, the dark the light and the just plain incomprehensible, but the simple view of life in this song never fails to make me happy. |
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| Iron & Wine – Peace Beneath the City Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is kind of wierd and doesn't make nearly as much sense as all yours, but its what worked for me for ages. I think it's like a sketch of life. I don't think the peace beneath the city is death necessarily. I think this song is meant to explore how incomprehensible every human is, and that everything is layered with humanity. Nothing is what you expect: you would thik the solider would die, not the mother; the policeman shoots but he is shot. No matter how black the valley is, how chaotic everything seems, and how disgusting life is on the surface, underneath it all there is peace. Underneath all the materialism and crap which we leave with, their are shreds of benevolence. Like every person has some positive characteristic, no matter how far gone they seem to be. I think it's just saying that we're all so lost but we have to, i don't know.. seek out the peace that is hidden. Then again maybe I'm too life affirming and it's just existential. This is whats so great about Sam Beam's work, I get hope for humanity from this, that we can get back to the times of peace and love, but someone else could see it as a reflection of an entirely ruined and crumbling world. | |
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