| Songs of Green Pheasant – Nightfall (For Boris P.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i love his music so much, one of my favorites, it's just so difficult to decipher. | |
| Songs of Green Pheasant – Fires P.G.R. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i'm not sure but i hear "don't lose sight of beauty in the ordinary light" instead of lives. i might not be listening too well though. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Soft as Chalk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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well, when i first heard this song and when it got into the faster-paced piano it automatically reminded me of 'Martha My Dear'-esque Beatles. i think joanna derives her style from so many different sorts of music and is influenced by a lot of old stuff-- so it just seems familiar. i know a lot of songs i first hear and i'm like "oh i think i've heard this before...somewhere." but i think it's just such a simple and chirpy tune that it appears familiar. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Go Long Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| the way she says "BURN" makes me BURN | |
| Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| this song is amazing, but so painful to listen to. it's clearly a heartbreak, because after i hear it i cringe and feel heartbroken. yet, it feels hopeful in a sense- so the contrast of sadness and being full of promise makes it even harder. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| well, no argument, sir. NO ONE knows. a majority of people interpreting the song would agree and say some variation of that, anyways... at least of what i've read on forums. it may or may not be entirely personal, it may or may not be entirely metaphorical- or stated obvious. who knows! | |
| Joanna Newsom – Soft as Chalk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| in the last week of last yeeeeeeeeeariiiiiiiiiiiiii was awaaaaare | |
| Joanna Newsom – Soft as Chalk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| the piano on this makes me die | |
| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i don't believe this is about abortion whatsoever. it's most likely her "closing the door" on childbirth: "i wish we could take every path, because i hated to close the door on you". joanna is a very traditional woman, i mean, i don't know her, but it well seems so. she hasn't had that stable relationship- and being 28 might not able her to use the time of marrying, having children, etc. (i don't think her and andy date anymore?) anyways, motherhood is something she's wanted and the theme occurs in many of her songs. it's a really sad thing to leave be. "your eyes are green, your hair is gold your hair is black, and your eyes are blue well, i close the rig and double back don't you know, i hated to close the dog-gone door on you" -she's imagining the appearence of her child, and that she will never know. "it's been a long, long time; how are you?" -long time is her whole life. all girls imagine having a husband and bearing children, but the opportunity never seemed stable for joanna. (i really don't know anything, i'm just giving my two cents). she's revisiting the subject, giving her "what could have been" child a last hello before a goodbye: "how are you?" "be at peace, baby and be gone " |
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| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| she also talks about in MANY interviews that people probably miss the point- that there probably isn't as much "hidden" in her lyrics as you might think, but rather that it's straightforward, but poetic. i highly doubt this song is about her harp. actually, i know it's not about her harp, or anything pushing the imagery too far. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think this song is the story of death, or at least one of the major parts of joanna's life concerning loss. i don't remember where i read, but one of these songs on ys regards death. and this is a solo song so it's much more personal than the rest. "from the top of the flight of the wide, white stairs through the rest of my life do you wait for me there?" -could represent heaven, "wide white stairs" and if she'll meet whoever is there when she dies? "darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and mine appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes" -like love is being taken from the two, "gibbering wave" could represent death "love, you ought not" -seems like a way of grief over death, or a "why?". confusion of since there's a life full of love, why must there be seperation and suffering? "I will take to the grave your precious long face and though our bones they may break, and our souls separate" |
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