| Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Indeed. That was also my first thought. I looked it up, and sure enough, they admit that this song is influenced by MacBeth. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – The Dreamer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is amazingly beautiful. I definitely see it as a love song, but better than any other: it's real. I read the line "tossing aside from your birches crown" as a grammar mistake. The line seems like it should be, "tossing aside from your birch's crown." The crown of a tree is where the shadow begins and the light shines over. This segues perfectly into the next two lines: "just enough dark to see/how you're the light over me" Relationships aren't easy, there are definitely moments where there's darkness... but in a great one, there's only enough darkness to make the good times (the light) even better. The rest of the song talks about how fast the world moves, how busy we all are, how we all get down sometimes, but at the center, there's this relationship that ages together and provides a solid place from which to go out into the world. Or, it's a love song to nature, pure and simple, same sentiments apply. And then "birches" would make sense, as the earth would have a crown made of more than one birch. Either way, I like the use of the birch as the tree - they've long been regarded as magical and royal in mythology. True love. In the song and for it. |
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| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've never thought it was "fours". It has always sounded to me like "form", which makes a lot more sense, though it'd be kind of strange for Colin to use form to rhyme with form. Maybe force? Like her "force" was very strong in his dream? Like she's haunting his dreams. Or if it is form, then he dreamed she was there, or he takes a half-awake consciousness of her being in his room one night, checking in on the man she really did love as a particularly vivid dream... Or I could be making it all up, but those are the impressions and words I've always heard there. |
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| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| That's exactly how I interpreted it as well. It may be a bit antiquated now, but referring to the cop being on a [insert time here] beat used to be very common. | |
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