| Death Cab for Cutie – Broken Yolk in Western Sky Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Pilots use a yoke to steer and control an airplane. A broken yoke would only mean the plane's imminent doom. Turbulence, a crash, and an end; as musicforlife! pointed out, it's a falling and failing relationship. Like a plane. |
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| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Does anyone else think that instead of: Wake from your sleep The drying of your tears Today we escape, we escape ...it's actually: Wake from your sleep You're drying on your tears Today we escape, we escape ? |
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| Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just my interpretation: "I'm gonna take a stab at this / Surely we'll be alright" Based on the context of subsequent lyrics, I feel that the narrator (I'm going to address the narrator as a male because I don't want to deal with having to type his/her constantly. In no way am I a misogynist.) is currently in the presence of his mistress. Whenever someone says they're going to "take a stab" at something, it's usually about a concept that's tough to understand or convey. He seems to be confessing his love for his mistress, and possibly future plans. He reassures her WE'll be alright. "Make a decision with a kiss / Maybe I have frostbite" I noticed that the use of the word "make" is imperative, a command. I think he's proposing his love up to his mistress, and telling her to just kiss him if she wishes to be with him. The next lyrics are a bit more open to interpretation. I came up with two ideas: 1. Frostbite is an experience that progresses in feeling, depending on the degree of the frostbite. You can be so cold it hurts. Or you can be so cold you're numb. When he says, "Maybe I have frostbite", I think he may be justifying the pain or numbness (lack of feeling, warmth, passion) that he feels when he kisses his mistress. The kiss didn't do anything for him. 2. When a male is cold, there are certain body parts that don't quite function as well as desired. I'm guessing his tool isn't working as he tries to sexually advance this lover's meeting. He seems to be trying to justify or trivialize this dysfunction by saying it may be frostbite. This one is a stretch. "And when I shuffled on back home / I made sure all my tracks in the snow were gone" His little tryst didn't seem to work out as he thought in his head (I'd say stick with the first interpretation of frostbite). He leaves the mistress' place and goes home, covering his tracks. Initially reading these lines, the narrator seems a bit devious. However, I think that covering his tracks was more of an act of regret. He shuffles home, almost moping. "Tissue and bones it was a tryst / This isn’t a gunfight" It was a meeting of secret lovers, physically and somewhat emotionally. Bones upon bones is a common expression involving sexual interaction. When the narrator says "This isn't a gunfight", I feel that he's spiting his wife/girlfriend, thinking how great sex is as opposed to the arguments he would get into with his wife/girlfriend. "Checking it off of my list / Unable to rewrite" When he says "checking it off", I feel that he is taking it off his mind. He felt that it was something he had to do, worthy of being on his list. It wasn't something positive or good, but necessary. His inability to rewrite this act on his list shows his regret and reflects his sincere pain in doing such a thing. "Five years, countless months and a loan / Hope I’m ready, able to make my own, good home" Five years and countless months sounds like the length of his relationship with his wife/girlfriend. I see the loan as a metaphor for what we give to our significant other in a relationship. We loan our time, our body, our mind and most importantly, our hearts. It is in their hands to take care of, or in this case, neglect. In his guilt and remorse, he realizes all that he's taken for granted and comes back to his wife/girlfriend, hoping that he's able to stay true to her. "They go, we go / I want you to know what I did" I have no idea what "They go, we go" could mean. Two guesses: 1. When people cheat, they split. When I lie in that circumstance, we can split. The parallel structure implies that "they" are no different that "we". 2. "They go, we go" as in "They say, we say". Whenever anyone finds themselves as a causer or victim of infidelity, "I want you to know what I did" seems like a generic response. The cheater always seems to come to grips after doing the dirty deed, and in his guilt and newly found appreciation for his wife/girlfriend, feels that he should confess. Just a guess. |
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