| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I agree, navy, I always hear "olive trees" twice and then he goes on to say "Look at the trees" so I think he's just pressing the point of the olive trees rather than lamely rhyming for the sake of rhyming and finding nothing but the same word to rhyme with. | |
| Menomena – Ghostship Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Am I crazy or is there some Ping Pong going on around 1:45? | |
| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is a good example of all the art that can be interpreted in so many ways depending on its audience. The more ambiguous pieces can be left up to interpretation and that can be ultimately more touching to the consumer. I've always heard this song as a bitter-sweet love song. Olive branches are typically an emblem of peace. To give someone all the olive trees sounds like a desperate attempt at peace-making. I've also always heard (and read) "If I could take the fire out from the water" not "from the wire" like most people seem to hear. But both can be explained similarly, from what I understand the song to mean: Taking fire from water sounds pretty difficult, if not impossible, considering the two elements are opposites. The singer sounds like he is giving this impossible condition as if it were an actual option. Again, he seems to be grasping for any idea in an act of desperation. If one considers the "fire" to be the same as electricity in the "wire", on the other hand, to take the fire out would render it useless, or at least not "live" in the sense that it could do any (more?) damage. So when considering my above interpretations and adding a few other details (below) this song really sounds like a desperate attempt to get a firm grip on something that keeps dribbling between the singer's fingers. "And I could take away the salt from your eyes" - sounds like making someone cry (that's how the salt comes out, right?) "And take away the spitting salt in you" - "in you" means it's not yet out "And I could give you my apologies" - either expecting to fail or apologizing for all the past failures Finally, taking someone away to a place where "nobody gives a damn" implies there's some sort of history there worth running away from. Whatever the actual meaning of the song is, it is powerful and I'm so glad to see other people are as in love with it as I am. |
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