| Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I like the use of seasons as a metaphor representing the relationship between the protagonist and mystery person. The couple experienced a hot and passionate summer ("sunburned hands") and inevitably autumn comes around, extinguishing the longing this couple mustve felt for each other. As she looks out her window the "red and gold leaves", colors evoking feelings of passion?, are in transit to their death. The protagnist glimpses their last futile but graceful fluttering in the air before they land to the ground. Winter will come to cover these and other memories and will symbolize the end of the relationship. I like the the focus on the leaves. Falling autumn leaves are wispy and ephemeral. They drift by her window. I like to imagine this song being about a memory of a person that had a profound effect on the protagonists life; the protagonist has gone on with her life but will always hold a place for that person in her heart and this is just one such inistance in time which gives her pause, where she becomes aware of this longing. I dont see this as being at all lugubrious but a realization at the ephemerality of changing people and changing times. |
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| Lali Puna – Nin-com-pop Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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There appears to be a progression in the song. It begins with "There was no reason to complain it's all been candy cream neatly, smooth and clean forever" The first stanza suggests naivity, purity, and complacency. No reason to complain, shes content with her life. She compares "it" to candy cream-the metaphor- which highlights a childish side (candy) suggesting naivity. She then unpacks the metaphor, neatly smooth. It suggets a pristine condition but then she adds "clean forever" which is a rare defining charecteristic of candy cream. Clean's opposite is dirty; she wants to emphasize a state of being uncorrupt. The juxtoposition with forever is powerful because forever is a strong word. Candy is eventually eaten, it is made for eating, eventually it is "corrupted" but this fate is denied. leading into the second stanza The battle seemed so far away she never felt the pain but then one day it came a little The protagonist is naive(young) "she bever felt the pain". Notice the us of "battle and pain" suggesting that reality is not this candy cream crap. Then the pain (break-up, abuse etc) comes. Yet things happend just that way realize your fate shut it down, increase the pressure “realize your fate”, the protagonist encounters the earlier mentioned “pain” and realizes it was inevitable. She is no longer that candy cream neatly smooth and CLEAN FOREVER. She tries to cope with this trauma by shutting down fate by essentially ignoring it and increasing her pressure or control on her own life and on her own psyche. Up until now the progression has gone from good to bad. She masks this progression by ending with the first stanza. She repeats to herself that she is that candy cream, clean forever and still naïve. No reason to complain because as far as the protagonist is concerned there was no problem in the first place, she blocked it off. The “yet things happened just that way” suggests that pain was predicted almost like the protagonist is used to it. “just that way” suggesting that this progression is on going where the protagonist must continue to convince her self that she is that coveted candy cream. The nature of rape and how it fits so nicely with “clean forever” leads me to believe the song can be about some traumatic event like rape. The words battle, pain, increase the pressure suggest something salient like rape. Suffice it to say, I believe this song is about some sort of trauma and the reluctance to accept it and rather cover it up like it never happened. |
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