| Avi Buffalo – What's in It For? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Isn't it ironic that a band as refreshingly lacking in pretension as Avi Buffalo attracts listeners like this? | |
| Sigur Rós – All Alright Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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While I don't know if I agree with boy0boy's interpretation, I do enjoy it. Considering the regret, hurt and even shame I have experienced when I have fallen for my own male friends (I, like the singer Jonsi, am gay), that would resonate with me in ways I cannot explain. But I don't think that is what the song is about. I'm more on the side of shewolfinlondon in thinking that it is far simpler in its meaning, that it is about wronging a lover. Jonsi's voice is staggeringly vulnerable in this song as he sings alongside the piano. He sounds as if he's confessing to something: "I want him to know what I have done. I want him to know its bad." He's not trying to hide anything. He wants his lover to see him for who he is, see that he did something wrong. And the apparent beauty of the song is that he does seem to be forgiven in the end. What is at once fascinating and heartbreaking and ultimately rewarding about this song for me is the strange perspective we're provided here. Usually we hear a song like this from the perspective of the other guy, the one having it revealed to him that his lover did something wrong. It's usually an angry song, full of resentment and hate. But Jonsi's pain here is, as someone else said, nearly submissive in its apologetic tone. How could you not forgive him, with a song like this? Love is all about forgiveness, transcending the pain and accepting each other for who you are. That's why this is as much a love song for me as any other I've heard. |
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| Sigur Rós – All Alright Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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While I don't know if I agree with boy0boy's interpretation, I do enjoy it. Considering the regret, hurt and even shame I have experienced when I have fallen for my own male friends (I, like the singer Jonsi, am gay), that would resonate with me in ways I cannot explain. But I don't think that is what the song is about. I'm more on the side of shewolfinlondon in thinking that it is far simpler in its meaning, that it is about wronging a lover. Jonsi's voice is staggeringly vulnerable in this song as he sings alongside the piano. He sounds as if he's confessing to something: "I want him to know what I have done. I want him to know its bad." He's not trying to hide anything. He wants his lover to see him for who he is, see that he did something wrong. And the apparent beauty of the song is that he does seem to be forgiven in the end. What is at once fascinating and heartbreaking and ultimately rewarding about this song for me is the strange perspective we're provided here. Usually we hear a song like this from the perspective of the other guy, the one having it revealed to him that his lover did something wrong. It's usually an angry song, full of resentment and hate. But hear Jonsi's pain here, where he is, as someone else said, nearly submissive in his apology. How could you not forgive him, with a song like this? Love is all about forgiveness, transcending the pain and accepting each other for who you are. That's why this is as much a long song for me as any other I've heard. |
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| Neko Case – Middle Cyclone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song speaks so much to the themes of the album as a whole. She's constantly comparing herself to this force of nature throughout the whole thing, making herself larger than life and comparing herself to an animal. But then, this song sort of comes like a revelation. She, too, is human and needs to admit, or even accept, "the fact that [she] needs love". |
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| Neko Case – I'm an Animal Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nice, bettyfelon. I like that interpretation of the airport line a lot. | |
| Neko Case – Prison Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I get a dreamlike feeling from this song, both in the lyrics and the tone of it in general. The whole thing seems to take place in room she's sleeping and in the hallway outside that room. I got the impression she was staying in a hotel room, but I don't know what "prison girls" would be doing there or what they would represent. Along with that, I find there to be noir-ish quality to the a whole thing, like a dark, grey-scale atmosphere. There's an air of danger to it, too: we have "gunpowder eyes" and "humming helicopters through the blades of a fan". So, basically, I have no idea what she is talking about. I just wanted to convey my impressions to stir some discussion. My best guess is that she is referring to this whole darker side of life that she never has and probably will never experience, of "prison girls". Maybe she's haunted by this, which would explain why it's coming through in this dreamlike environment. |
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