| Third Eye Blind – Summer Town Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Stephan Jenkins seems to remember fondly the Summer times of someone he lost. The song could be a reference to the way someone would feel if their life were a Summer Town. Lyrics: "Hey where'd everybody go? Everyone I know has flown the coast" His friends have moved away and moved on from the summer towns of youth. "Shiver in the wind it shows. All I have are summer clothes" When he tries to move on, he can't. This line suggests that he can't move and even if he wanted to move (and i think he does) he can't because he'll just shiver in his summer clothes. He can only fit in one place. "Oh and it brings me down when it's winter time in a summer town. All we are are friends we keep or lose in time. Fade away, the precious ones we keep in mind. I wonder now it I'm the one that you'd leave behind" The winter time image shows what he's feeling. He has no element besides being a person in a summer town. At the same time he is subject to having his friends fade away because of their distance and time. But his friends go through the same thing, this is that realization. "I told you everything I knew in one manic rushing line. I wonder now if I'm the kind that you'd leave behind" He took a chance. And now he questions his choice. This is my favorite line of the song. "I go down like the sun. You know What I mean." He knows that even when the sun goes down, it comes back up. And we know that too, somehow he knows that either he is going to change, or she/his friends are going to come back. "After Halloween. Can we stay together. I'm losing everyone. And I come undone. Nothing lasts forever. Last summer's done. Can we find another one. Find another one" After Halloween he referenced everything fading, now he wants to stay together so she won't fade in his mind. This will have to happen in another summer. Outro rap: This song is played in such a way that it sounds like a summer song, but the lyrics seems to harrowing. This rap continues the direction of the song, but it provides closure and eventually a conclusion. He starts by mentioning the bungalow and a memory of her. He ends by forgetting his keys (maybe even forgetting how to get back to the good summer times in the bungalow with the girl). "And I was never able to reach her" I do wonder what the "alright" at the end means... |
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| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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For me, the song's focal point is the "and in the" sequence. Perhaps this was even the genesis of the whole song. "And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from" Human nature to connect with origins, even in cases like homesickness. Wherever we end up, we see where we have been - we make connections. And in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die The inevitable facet that our actions (faces we meet) will foretell the place we die. "And on the day that you die, you'll see the people you�d met" Sort of the culmination of your life, we see those actions (faces we've met) come to us and we will see our live played out. "And in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been" Maybe this hints that the faces we see (at this point, our death/funeral) are only the ones who care about us. In that sense, the faces we see tell us who we've been just by their presence. Although, faces might literally mean expressions. I find these lyrics to be slightly nostalgic, but at the same time endowing an incredible amount of power to the present and future. This portion of the lyrics couldn't simply be described as a cycle, but I'm not sure what it really could be described as. I wonder if this could be developed any farther... |
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