| Okkervil River – For the Enemy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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We all have the same inevitable fate. Friends, foes, lovers, enemies. They're watching over me, as each town you pass fades as it folds. We are all linked. We all feel the same things. We all get lost in our fright at night sometimes. Enemies will always be linked together as humans, as will friends. |
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| Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Everyone is completely over thinking the simple meaning of this song, but some previous reviewers have analyzed it completely right. Its not about some deranged soap opera with brothers having affairs with brothers' girlfriends, nor does it have anything to do with pregnancy. You can't literally interpret the word "brother" in this song, it just means brother, like human brother, we are all "brothers", we all have blood that looks the same. The simple conversation in the first verse is just a simple conversation that started a relationship, and the narrator reminisces about the simplicity and innocence of human interaction. This song is quite clearly about past, present, and future. Two people meet at a blood bank, a simple unassuming random location, and soon realize that presently, they are falling in love with each other. Neither of them expected to fall in love, it just happened. The present just showed up. And in that moment, it was cold and day turned to night, and the moon became visible. At defining moments in your life, small details are everything, You can't forget them, and this is a description of them. The last lines of the song clearly depict a view of the future, but it is not a concrete view, but its obviously a reference to a future together with children. To completely refute anything involving affairs and pregnancy, the secret that we know, that we don't know how to tell, is love. If you're having an affair, its easy to know how to say it, just say it. Love is random and beautiful and undefinable. Sometimes you literally don't even know how to say it or how to describe it. Plus, the secret is a good one, as its making them "red", or blush or become excited. The song is undyingly uplifting and hopeful and simplistically beautiful. Don't ruin it with overanalyzing and literal translations. |
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