| Foals – Electric Bloom Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Butcher birds are also known for imitating other birds' songs. So, these "butcher bird" bands aren't only squawking empty things, but they are merely imitating the styles of other bands. All the same, and then they fly away. | |
| Johnny Flynn – The Wrote and the Writ Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Maybe it can partially relate to a relationship with a woman, or any type of relationship, when it comes to the last stanza beginning "If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ". It seems to warn against ANY type of relationship in which one cannot experience the full of the person on the other side, rather than entirely or mostly through letters...but more so against the person on the other side of the pen hiding parts of themselves behind stationary and a cold veil of ink. | |
| Johnny Flynn – The Wrote and the Writ Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just to clear up and simplify things... The subject of this song is God, not a woman. The "letters" are what was written in The Bible...letters that God had "left behind". It is about the author turning away from an idea that sounds good on paper, but was never real because extent of the relationship was only "in ink". He is turning away from a life of futile piety, and warns others who are also attracted to a beautiful idea to (seemingly ironically) "pay heed to your heart and not to your wit" - this means to consider the reality and the emotional and philosophical limits/sacrifices of what they're getting into (in other words, following your heart), as opposed to just doing what they are told and raking in these promises word for word without any discretion or heed to what they really mean...and this is not easily done through letters alone. And the line that supposes the priests would "swap their blood for wine", simply means that said group of priests are (by nature) alcoholics and would figuratively give their life for a drink...but that line is mainly there to serve as a comparison for "Jesus(God) trading his life so that people could know his story of passion in the form of ink", and also to point out hypocrisy in even the ones who are supposed to set an example. |
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