| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Correction: switch around what I said about the time signatures, the song is in 3/4. My bad, didn't double check. | |
| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Well you're right and you're wrong. There is no tempo change. But there's also really no change in the "feel", nor is that an applicable musical term. What the piano is doing through the song is called a polyrhythm, and you nailed it; it's a 3:4 polyrhythm. However, what gives the song the feeling of changing is that when the piano is by its self the rhythm is anchored around the bass progression, which is in 3/4, and the right hand seems to merely be an articulation. But when the drums come in in 4/4, if you haven't been paying attention, it makes you realize that the song was in common time the whole time, and the piano just tricked you into thinking otherwise. | |
| The National – Brainy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Man I can't believe you. The water line is not connect to the kingdom line in any way, and neither are either of the lines meant to be read literally. Hints that he's the moat? A moat, seriously? The water is making her fail? Come on dude think about it a little more. The water line has to do with the fact that what she says does not 'hold water', that is that it is false. Please don't tell me that you haven't heard that expression either, I already can't believe you about the following. Have you really never heard anyone use the phrase "bone up" to refer to studying? But you've heard someone use it to refer to masturbation? That's insane! How does that even work? "Yeah I was boning up on some porn last night". You're blowing my mind dude how can you think that. I can see how you got that from 'boning' but even boning by its self never refers to masturbation, only to actual penetrative sex. You have a bone, and you give it to a lady, thus you are 'boning' her. Boning up is an (extremely) common term for studying, it also implies that you're studying something that you're already familiar with, and trying to get better at it. He's boning up on the dictionary to increase his vocabulary and better understand hers; he's trying to become more 'brainy'. |
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| The National – Brainy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Finally, someone who understands! I can't even believe all of these people are interpreting the water line literally. A metaphorical moat? Are you freaking serious? It is obviously referring to the fact that what she says doesn't "hold water", ie is not true. I also agree that this is not about a stalker but loving someone who you don't feel smart around. But a lot of people are reading too much into the dictionary line, he's simply trying to educate himself to be closer to the other character, looking up the words she used that he doesn't understand. And come home in the car you love doesn't make much sense, I can't hear it. It's got to be come on, let me call you love, as in let me call you baby, let me call you honey. |
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| Why? – Rubber Traits Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I am sorry but this is really dumb. This song is obviously about dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts, but it seems like you probably struggle with some sort of eating disorder and just really want the song to be about something you relate with. The caloric intake line makes a little bit of sense, but in the context of this song is almost certainly about the low self-esteem and lack of appetite that comes with severe depression. The line about the blade is not about bleeding gums and the brushing too hard/vitamin deficiency idea is one HELL of a stretch. People that plan to commit suicide by cutting themselves will often handle and play with the blade while they are thinking about it and deciding, and if that person has an oral fixation (smokers) they will probably put it in their mouth. My interpretation is a little bit of a stretch as well, this line is one of the more ambiguous. But because this song is obviously about depression, and seeing the way Yoni handles the idea of blood and it's taste in other songs, there is no way that he is referring to blood in the mouth with this line. The bed of nails line has absolutely nothing to do with being skinny, it's about precarious situations. To stay on a bed of nails you have to keep your weight evenly distributed on the nails or else they will drive into your back. Having sex on a bed of nails would be impossible because it puts strong pressure on specific parts of your body, but I think this is more of metaphor dealing with depression again; feeling like one wrong move could send your whole life tumbling down like you just lost at jenga. The origami death mask line is un-ambiguously about hating yourself and even you couldn't separate it from that, but you still managed to connect it with eating disorders somehow. It's hard to pin down because you're trying so hard to associate it with something that it has nothing at all to do with. This is the line that makes this song so obviously about depression. Without it I could see a lot of different interpretations of this song, even yours, but because it is there it puts the rest of the song in the context of depression. If you think about it from that perspective it makes perfect sense. You don't have to try to connect the words with depression by assuming that everything is a complex metaphor like you have to. This song basically tells you exactly what it is about. Your idea about the "I don't want to" line makes a little bit of sense, but the fact that it comes right after the origami death mask line totally invalidates the eating disorder idea. It is completely about contemplating suicide. People don't commit suicide every time they think about it, otherwise you'd never hear about them. Most suicidal ideations end with the person deciding that they can wait just a little bit longer. The sweats line has to deal with losing weight but not because of an eating disorder, losing weight is an extremely common symptom of depression. You're right about the fly line, it is a metaphor, flies don't have bones and i don't think they have stomachs, and i think that it is referring to the "fly" dying of starvation (although i think dying of starvation is a metaphor in its self, and if it is that's another reason this song is not about eating disorders). But I still don't see how it could be related to eating disorders given the rest of the song, and I don't think that they fly is meant to be the same person as the narrator. He's watching the fly, I think that it is about looking out your window and seeing the whole world go by, people going to work and coming home, doing the same thing every day until they drop dead without ever having mattered. Most suicidal people aren't just depressed about themselves but with the world and the concept of life. Most people contemplate suicide because they feel that life is not worth living, there are varying reasons for this but a common one is that they don't want to go on for the rest of their life just going to work and then coming home to watch TV like most people do. I can see why you would interpret that as having to do with eating disorders with the word bony and seeming reference to starvation, but it just makes absolutely no sense in this context. I am again sorry but nothing you said makes any sense at all in the context of this song. |
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| Ministry – No W Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| You're thinking of the song Rio Grande Blood | |
| Ministry – Rio Grande Blood Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's "Squeezing the working class whom I detest" | |
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