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| Bill Callahan – The Wind and the Dove Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Seems pretty straight-up to me. There holds a mystery in a bird's flight to the layman. Somewhere between the means and the bird, there is some sense of child-like wonder and magic as what's going on mechanically. The lyrics depict a loss - death maybe? love? some aspect of self? Who knows. The loss is questioned in the first chorus where the lyrics skirt around the true lament (I don't know how the dove could exist without the wind) which is pretty much "I don't know what do do". Perhaps the lyrics were to come to some sort of peace (dove being the bird, and as other flights are examined from this album), I think the lyrics is the struggle of how to move on past losing something that may or may not be able to even be conceived, all that potential and hope, but also a demand to understand it, as the child lingers at the window trying to make sense of what has happened. Could be completely off my rocker though! Just how I interpret it. : ) |
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| Voxtrot – Every Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I forgot to mention about 10 mins ago that there is a definite theme with food going on here which I originally interpreted to mean self-nurturing, as if nursing back to health. Just my thoughts though. I could be totally off! :) |
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| Voxtrot – Every Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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My interpretation of the song is very different from what others have said, so I wanted to pipe in. What I get from the lyrics is that there is a person emotionally damaged somehow. This person knows that they aren't getting better, this person is doing the best thing they can to get better that they know how, though. The person has remained silent in their experience until meeting a person (I have no place to be awkward and silent), perhaps with a shared experience (perhaps a loss, perhaps a lover or a friend). "Some kind of future that I can be sure of..." - whether this is a future with a loved one or this is just the literal sense there is hope for a future. That's how it strikes me. The lyrics describe desolation, despair, drowning, uncertainty, fear, troubled thoughts ... the symbolism about the radio that we hear and there's nothing good on the radio it's just really really powerful to me. It is as though the turmoil can't get out of repeat out of his head. But the person referenced in the song is the anchor.It seems like the repetition "because I love you" could be self-referencing rather than referencing someone else. It didn't occur to me that it could be referencing another as the logical (for me) ending to this song is that the person has found hope and is willing to love themselves. |
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