| OK Go – Before The Earth Was Round Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In keeping with the line "War became a job", I think the lines above: "Everything was warm" and "And everyone would love" should read "Everything was war" and "But everyone would love". It might not make sense on first considering it, but war needn't be violent. I think it's about struggle only for the sake of triumph, no other agendas. When war becomes a job, it's struggle out of necessity. Further, to me the line "and heart and head were bent out of tune" is incorrect. I don't suppose to know what it actually is, but it SOUNDS like "and heart and head were rent into tune". There's definitely a "nnn" sound at the end but it could simply be distortion. I'm thinking it was supposed to be "and heart and head were bent into tune". That kinda makes sense to me, so many lyricists/poets say the head gets in the way of heart matters or vice versa, and the implication is that they certainly shouldn't be "in tune" as that's unnatural (echoes of "everything was war"?). This is such a beautiful song. The lyrics have a depth and flow I rarely have the pleasure of hearing. Such a sense of innocence lost and that poor old passive sky becomes a victim and knows regret. How sad. Rare a song makes me weep, but this one got me sniffling. Technically, I hear some interesting similarities to material from the group Air, and not just the vocal distortion (like Portal's Still Alive), and another group called Battles (that time sig change at the end is so Battles). |
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