| Animal Collective – Kids on Holiday Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I may sound very silly proposing this but... The "sympathize with the retard" line really gets to me, and not just because it's powerful poetry. Live bootlegs have shown that Avey Tare is partial to making vocalizations that resemble "retard" sounds (see: the outros of "Did You See the Words" and "Purple Bottle" from the 2004 Lexington, KY recording). It's less as if the man is mocking the mentally challenged and more as if those sounds were coming straight from the gut; from his own subconscious. Is there any chance that Tare has/had a disabled family member, or perhaps once worked in a facility that tended to retarded folks? I know that he has two sisters but to my knowledge, that's about it. One can only speculate... |
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| Pixies – Vamos Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Before reading this page, I had always thought that they were chanting "Vamos, who got called a f-gg-t?" :S | |
| Daniel Johnston – Big Business Monkey Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Great little anti-capitalist song. Definitely one of the more accessible ones off of Hi, How Are You? |
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| Daniel Johnston – Walking The Cow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Without exaggeration, one of the best songs in emerge in the '80s indie scene and simply one the most heart-grabbing pieces of music of the post-punk era of music. Nearly brings me to tears everytime. |
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| Pavement – Saganaw Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| EDIT: There's apparently a place in Connecticut named Saganaw. Who knew? | |
| Pavement – Saganaw Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sounds like something that may have been written up on the road. Perhaps the band was busing through Michigan and were approaching Saginaw, inspiring this odd little tune. Yeah, half the lyrics are close to impossible to interpret but telling off "great seekers of violence" is obviously a message of peace and so perhaps the small town atmosphere of the Saginaw area brought a sense of tranquility to Malkmus or whoever wrote the tune. Saying that "the country songs have blessed me" might really mean that the country roads have inspired him, or whatever. BTW, that yodeling always makes me smile. :) The song worked well for a Saganay slideshow I made. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – You Are the Blood (Castanets cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ah jeez, my bad. You know that I meant "accepted". It would not make any sense otherwise. And my interpretation has not changed since. |
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| Half Japanese – Daytona Beach Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jad Fair are my favorite lyricist who can't write proper lyrics. So much of an enthusiasm and young sense of fun in his words. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – You Are the Blood (Castanets cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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If there is a meaning behind this non-sequitur epic it will probably lie within the arrangement. IMO, the songs different sections play as the linear mental stages an AIDS victim would go through (not that I know how an AIDS victim feels as this is a total presumption). It's start off scary, angry and intense and at some goes into a brief but effective moment of disjointed and somewhat electronic noises, to give off a feeling of torture or pain. After that, however, the song mellows with the speaker (or victim, if you will) excepting the blood in him ("You are the earth on which I travel") even if it's killing him because it has done him so much good throughout his life. The rest of the song is turbulent but with no words because the man has nothing else to say: he has excepted his fate and will fight to the very end. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I just created an account solely so that I could post my thoughts on this controversial ballad. So if you don't mind, my two cents: The final verse never really came to me until someone played this in class. Some other student thought that Mr. Stevens was actually claiming that he himself is a murderer (WTF?) but the meaning is obvious: everyone has a sinful side that is out of their control. STILL, perhaps there is a little confession in here as well... Does anyone recall the gay undertones of some of his previous lyrics? Would it be a thin possibility that Sufjan Stevens is comparing the double-life of an undercover pedophilic killer to his own closeted homosexuality? The way he mentions himself being like Gacy is far to direct for me to see the last verse as a preaching of Man's original sin. Being a devout Christian, couldn't Mr. Stevens hold some sort of a guilt for being gay and perpetually hide his identity, only expressing himself through song? Like, it might be a bit tacky of me to start such rumours but this is a matter of interpretation and less of a claim. |
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