| Sage Francis – Eviction Notice Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is one of those songs where I wonder how everyone else is getting the interpretations I keep hearing. To me it seems, pretty obviously, to be about a mother (possible Sage's) and addiction (cigarettes and alcohol), and her bringing men home because she thinks her kids need a role model (which, if this song is about Sage's childhood, they finally got with Sage's stepfather). The song might not be so personal, but I think the addict mother interpretation makes a lot more sense than relationships ending, or a girlfriend, or any of the other interpretations I've seen. I think KeepSubjective is right about the personification of her addiction as "her friend" (and the speaker in the chorus) |
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| Why? – These Few Presidents Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think "Our still living bodies" refers to the narrator and other people, not the suicide herself. Having to go to someone's home after they die and clear out their things is a profound and difficult experience, especially if there's still a physical reminder of how they died. | |
| Why? – These Few Presidents Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the song is about the suicide of an ex-lover. The first verse, especially, feels that way to me. He could be describing going to her house, after the funeral, with others, and it still smells like oven gas, and she's still got a towel with their names on it. The "beautiful and violent word" could be "Suicide". The descriptions of of her neck, etc, make her sound like something fragile and faded. The first verse also implies she's already dead (after an unhappy life). The image I get, from the first verse at least, is very clear an unambiguous to me. It fits with the refrain, and with Kissandpart's interpretation of the wasp verse, which I think is right. He didn't get hurt, but he destroyed it anyway. Also, the line's not "Scandinavian feet", it's "perfect skin and avian feet." |
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| Aesop Rock – Coffee (feat. John Darnielle) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"more in a cave with a torch on the wall than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls" Is that a Plato reference I spy? I <3 you, Aesop. |
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