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| Andrew Bird – Anonanimal Lyrics
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Oh, and also the amazing double meaning of the song title A non-animal and Anon animal (as in anonymous). Brilliant. |
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| Andrew Bird – Anonanimal Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I deliberately didn't read any posts before me so this would be a completely honest interpretation. I think what he's saying is that all forms of life are basically the same. When he dies he will become a "Non-animal" just as all other life will become. "See a sea anemone the enemy" Is saying that there really is no enemy, just the ones that we humans create for ourselves or each other. Most of this song is Andrew Bird using language beautifully and artistically to illustrate a fairly simple point. I think most of his songs are like that. The verse that is "Hold on just a second" etc. Is illustrating an urge for a concrete feeling that is exclusively human. (That may be why it is in an unorthodox time signature). It is only us humans that feel emotions that we want to hang on to and look back on. But then he goes back to the (I will become this, etc.) A Non-animal. |
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| St. Vincent – What Me Worry? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song is about death, but approached in such a delicate and charming way that you wouldn't realize it if you didn't really think about it. "Sans le fear of impending doom. Life is like banquet food: pleasure to peruse"= Without fear of death, life is something to be enjoyed without regret. Disappear=death. "I'm out of here", etc. "Stir the dust underneath the thrust of my clicking heals"= Out of my love and lust for life, I will make my mark, no matter how fleeting it is. She is both a lyrical and musical genius. |
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