| Kate Bush – Sat in Your Lap Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Björk – Hyperballad Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"We live on a mountain/Right at the top/There's a beautiful view/From the top of the mountain" Typical enough. I see this to represent a housewife living in suburbia with her two kids, husband, and white picket fence. The singer seems somewhat neurotic with the repetition of the fact that they live on the very top of the mountain. "Every morning I walk towards the edge/And throw little things off/Like:/ Car-parts, bottles and cutlery/Or whatever I find lying around" Many of the previous interpretations say that she's getting rid of the excess things in her life that just bear her down - but car-parts and cutlery are in fact very important. Why list these three things? Well, all of them are hard and/or sharp would hurt a lot if you got hit with one. This is disturbing. "It's become a habit/A way/To start the day" Is this just me, or is this not totally "Desperate Housewives"? You know, the pointless alcoholism or sexual affairs? This is the same sort of release mechanism from the singers perfect life she needs to feel alive. "I go through all this/Before you wake up/So I can feel happier/To be safe up here with you" Again, the singer seems very neurotic to me. She feels the need to a)perform this deed without her husband (or partner or whatever) and b) defend her actions by saying they make her feel safe. Now I'm questioning seriously the real intentions of her throwing things over the mountains. Perhaps it's sort of parallel to the idea of a gated community: she throws the objects off of the mountain to deliberately try and protect herself from someone who might be climbing up the mountain. It's irrational, but neurotic habits often are. "It's real early morning/No-one is awake/I'm back at my cliff/Still throwing things off/I listen to the sounds they make/On their way down/I follow them with my eyes 'till they crash/Imagine what my body would sound like/Slamming against those rocks" So her habit is in fact an obsession; an addiction of sorts. She wakes up at the crack of dawn to get her rush by throwing objects over the edge. And then the suicidal thoughts come, which reinforce my earlier statements about the stability of the singers mental health. The imagery is brutal: "slamming" is a particularily harsh word. "I go through all this/Before you wake up/So I can feel happier/To be safe up here with you" To me, this sounds like the singer's backtracking - she realizes she sounds disturbs and quickly regains her composure, again defending her actions. In my eyes, this perfectly replicates the woman who has gotten everything she wanted as a child, only to find herself unsatisfied with being on the "top of the mountain." I'm sure there's some symbolism I'm missing here, but that's what I get out of this song. |
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| Björk – Oceanía Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the gist of this song has been explained, so I'm just offering my two cents on one line: "Every boy is a snake is a lily/Every pearl is a lynx is a girl" Snake- phallic symbol, masculine Lily- gynous symbol, feminine Pearl- symbol of femininity- sometimes linked to the clitoris Lynx- this one is a bit less obvious. The lynx is a "hunter", associated with the virile male gods Dionysus and Lugh, so it is a masculine symbol. With this, it's obvious that this line is a transgression of gender boundaries and states that there is a feminine and masculine part to all of us. "You count the centuries/ I blink my eyes" This is such a beautiful line. One of my favourite moments in any song. |
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| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Pedalling through/The dark currents/I find/An accurate copy/A blueprint/Of the pleasure/In me" Not obvious at first, but after reading the song, I take this to mean she finds how to make a deal with the devil. "Pedalling through the dark currents" - exploring the dark occult. "An accurate copy, a blueprint, of the pleasure in me?" To me, this is is like a spellbook that teaches her how she can fufill her deepest pleasures. "Swirling black lilies totally ripe/A secret code carved" I almost skipped over this part, but this is a really important piece of symbolism. The lily is a symbol of chastity, but the blackness seems to imply the opposite of the pure white lily. In pagan times, the lily was associated with femininity and the pentagram ( a lily with five petals resembles a pentagram). The color, like I already mentioned, is important as well - the white lily was a sign of Mary. A black lily would imply the polar opposite. "A secret code carved" - how she invokes the god? "He offers/A handshake/Crooked/Five fingers/They form a pattern/Yet to be matched" Obviously implies a pentagram . A handshake with the devil is what this stanza clearly says. So in order to fufill her passion, she makes a deal with the devil. "On the surface simplicity/But the darkest pit in me/It's pagan poetry/Pagan poetry" A simple handshake, much darker than the action would seem. The rest of the song is a bit of a mystery to me. It's beautiful and dark and so complex. |
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