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| Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I appreciate your attempt to tie the album name together with the song, but you are clearly reading into this. I don't see how you think the speaker is rebelling against religion. The song is too vague. But it does seem to have to do with prayer and surrender. |
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| Fleet Foxes – He Doesn't Know Why Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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No one has suggested that this song may be about a brother returning home after two years living with a cult community. Hard to return to your original mind after that. It especially has this feel to me because of the Fleet Foxes' throwback early 70's sound/look. Any thoughts? |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Mistress Witch from McClure (Or, the Mind That Knows Itself) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think most people are right- the song is about an affair, or at least walking in on their dad with a woman besides their mom. I just want to take the metaphors a little further.
The car represents innocence/ignorance. The kids "figure out the keys" after their father locks them in the car. After walking into the bedroom, they run back out to the car and scratch at the door. They cannot go back to "innocence" now that they know the truth. "A mind that knows itself is a mind that knows much more." The narrator names two different paths for a mind that knows itself: it can serve or kill others. And it seems like their father "killed" them in a way: "he left us now for dead."
Honestly, I can see the older brother having the fit. An older sibling may take it harder than the younger ones because he understands more what it means. Children might just be confused.
I like the metaphorical interpretation of the traffic stopping representing his sorrow.
Peace! |
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