| Crystal Stilts – Departure Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'd say departure from life and the lie we tell ourselves about a hereafter. Even with that promise, though, the lyrics indicate a nostalgia for a life that has forgotten us even before it's left our sight. | |
| Crystal Stilts – Converging In The Quiet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First of all, all songs are poetry set to music. The only measure is the quality. And I would say the lyrics are about death in a Dylan Thomas sort of way where we might replace rage with longing. Nostalgia for life even with the possibility of something after, always looking back despite what is leaving you never returning the look, even the fact that this song was redone as Departure all point to this conclusion. Still, any way you slice it, it's a beautiful song. If I were Ian Curtis I would be pleased with the comparison. Then I'd hang myself. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree, though I find your Eminem reference clumsy and inappropriate as I think he was being more sarcastic. It's been stated in earlier posts that a man can be so deluded by his own lie that he comes to believe it as truth. Being incarcerated, couldn't an innocent man be convinced of his guilt. "Nearly wholly innocent" could mean that he wanted the person who was killed dead or, maybe in an Andy DuFresne kind of way, feels responsible for the death. It could also mean he killed the person, but they were asking for it. Any of the other "proofs" people offer are equally ambiguous, and I think intentionally so. The innocent man on death row is the story I prefer, though either is compelling and either is possible. The only wrong interpretation I think is that the character in the song is obviously one or the other. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Really Love You Anymore Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Isn't Stephin Merritt gay? | |
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