| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Live at Jittery Joe's) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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When I sing this (which is too often), I always use this version's "sister" instead of blister. It gets most the whole family in there- eveyone sans mom. And maybe a lame note I can add is that everyone should learn the 5-6 chords on guitar and sing Mangum's songs to yourself. I read somewhere he wanted his music to be a 'force for healing' or something, and it's like therapy to sing these songs, like I'm singing them to my own family. |
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| Cloud Cult – When Water Comes to Life Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self |
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| Cloud Cult – When Water Comes to Life Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is the only song that has ever made me cry. The first time I heard it, I just had this intense vision of this guy's dead kid on an autopsy table with the white coats standing over him, and him praising his child for returning his flesh to the circle of life to feed and form new babies. One of the first CC songs I heard stoned out of my gills in a friend's car, and then I look it up and he /did/ have a kid that died. It seems like 75% of the songs I've heard are him telling himself it's ok that he lost a child. what a muse... | |
| Joanna Newsom – Swansea Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I get the story of these two young friends in their hometown with it's toad-ugly houses and traintrack out-of-town sharing a last night together before they go off into the rest of their lives. When life is really just the struggle for the next thing you're going to feed your face with (chew-chew, choo-choo!) out in the wild blue yonder of adulthood until you run your body down, they're kind of making a pact or something to drive on and...do something? And of course the town and area where you grow up always turns into a ghostown for you... or you become the walkinghost. either way, nostalgia | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I doubt this is what he was going for, but this song seems to be about Scrooge! I mean, has anyone ever seen a Muppet Christmas Carol? (that's the only version I've seen) How he goes back and he's young and in love? I dunno, I just connect this song with Ebenezer sitting alone in a room, ruminating on his unhappy life. And then the angels come! | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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These lyrics make me wonder if Jeff Mangum was in MARCHING BAND in highschool or collegio perhaps?... "Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums The music and medicine you needed for comforting So make all your fat, fleshy fingers to moving And pluck all your silly strings And bend all your notes for me Soft, silly music is meaningful, magical The movements were beautiful..." I dunno, but the consequent lyrics in the same section seem to me to point at a good 'ol highschool band-geek romp in the hay or not, what do you think? |
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