| Joanna Newsom – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is, I think, about wanting for someone and hopes to achieve mutual feelings. How she adores watching and looking at him. "Oh don't, don't you lift me up like I'm that shy, no no no no no," "And I am watching you and you are starry, starry, starry and I'm tumbling down, and I check a frown" But the problem is that he does not notice her and he is leaving the town (of sudden). And how it hurts her. "O, morning without warning like a hole and I watch you go There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road There are some dragons who were built to have and hold And some machines are dropped from great heights lovingly and some great bellies ache with many bumblebees (and they sting so terribly)" She just want to be noticed and asks for it in him as well. The clam, crab, cockle, and cowrie (shells) represent that for him she is just hidden; unknown or someone unnoticeable or just an ordinary girl in the neighborhood. "Clam, crab, cockle, cowrie will you just look at me?" Well, if he looks (gives an attention) at her. He'll probably notice that she has desires for him. |
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