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| College – A Real Hero Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Jacobtwo, how do you definitively know whether or not it's about masculinity? Imagine a hypothetical situation where this conversation used the opposite words. It would look pretty sexist if you were desperately trying to explain how a certain song wasn't feminist. Why are you so angry at the possibility of a song that celebrates masculinity? |
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| mewithoutYou – Nine Stories Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I like this interpretation, but the ending seems to suggest a disagreement about God and/or spirituality. The Walrus tells the owl, like many evangelicals, that it can find peace with God if it should run into difficulties.
But the owl, perhaps frustrated by these claims, responds by saying, what's bad for you is bad for him as well "Well if your pacific rivers all run dry, their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky" (i.e. life is not that simple as just finding God and everything being okay) and that if the Walrus should ever give up on his (apparently fulfilling) spirituality, there's a way back as well, to owl.
Kind of hard to explain what I mean, but that's the just of it. May be utterly wrong, but thats what was brought to mind. |
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| mewithoutYou – Nine Stories Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Done some more research and I think he may be referring to the Jacques-Louis David painting, painted in 1847 (more plausible for the owl to have seen). Although, it should be said that the painting depicts the knife stuck in Marat, not in Charlotte's hand. |
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| mewithoutYou – Nine Stories Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I don't think so, from a quick search it seems the longest owl life recorded is about 25-30 years. So I'm guessing it's more of a poetic license thing. |
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| mewithoutYou – Nine Stories Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This may be nitpicking, but Charlotte Corday was around during the French Revolution in the early 1790s, and this is supposed to be set in 1878. Poetic license? |
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| Brand New – In a Jar Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's "You'd run a million miles if you won first prize"
Makes a lot more sense, kinda saying you'd do anything if you knew you could win. |
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| Brand New – The Archers Bows Have Broken Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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For the backing vocals over the last chorus (and i surprisingly havent seen anyone else say this), im pretty sure the last words of the first part (that starts "feels like we could escape...") end in silver tongue, not song - silver tongue makes more senses as it is a well known phrase and ive listened to both the original track and many live recordings and it unmistakedly sounds like tongue. seems pretty big difference to me. |
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