| Foo Fighters – But, Honestly Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i have the album, and the lyrics sheet. he says "i don't want one thing that i gave to you". also, it's "don't take what i don't need" anyways... i think this may have to do with marriage. the "something borrowed something blue" gives that away, since it's in that rhyme "something old something new, something borrowed, something blue." this might be to his wife. the "i don't want one thing that i gave to you" could be like saying "i don't want it, because it's yours, and i'm happy I've given it to you." also, the "don't take what i don't need" could be like saying "i know this is important to me, and that's why i want you to have it." the "something borrowed something blue if you want them back, i'll give it to you" part is probably because the rhyme is about giving the married couple good luck charms and (this is a stretch) it might mean he doesn't need the good luck, which is probably wrong, but probably true all the same (Dave seems like he would be a good husband). i interpret the first verse as her being anxious about the wedding and him calming her down. then second verse is similar, anxious about getting married, but this is about him asking her and her thinking he's joking, and him saying "yeah yeah, but honestly, do you want to?" the "tonight i thank my lucky stars as i count my lucky scars for everything you've given me, and for every word I gave to you" is about how he is thankful for everything she has given him and everything he gave up for her. the "lucky scars" are basically the bad things that happened between them that he is lucky that they have, probably because they made them stronger as a couple. changingdirection: your ex is dumb, because he thought it was a breakup song. take solace in that he is stupid and shouldn't be listening to songs he doesn't have the mental capacity to understand on a more than superficial level |
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| Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| oh, and the reitterating of certain words or phrases, along with the steady slow rhythm gives a hypnotic, drowsy mood to the song. A lot of poets use this method when they want to convey a sense of solemnity or a darker mood. | |
| Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Based on his life, and the song before it, I know what the song is about. it's about his mother after his father died. the song previous to this one on the album, "Sodom south Georgia", was about when his father died. This song preludes it, talking about what happened to his mother afterwards. the flower seeds are her children, who moved away as they got older, and also probably because of his fathers death. she misplaced (lost) them, just like her wedding ring (husband). The seasons are a metaphor for life, summer the beginning of the marriage, spring being the birth of her children (spring a rep. of new life, like in common romanticism poetry) and winter being death, in this case, of her husband ("winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls". this line meaning winter (death) takes everyone, tucking into bed uses sleep as a metaphor for death.) there are more than one references to thing fading away, such as "endless numbered days" this is a very important line in the song, it's an oxymoron stating that though we commonly live as if our days are endless, in reality they are not. this is a reference to his mother coming to that realization at the death of her husband. the quilt being blown off of the perfectly made bed is another example of Sam's amazing imagery and use of metaphor. He sums up what she is going through with one moment from her life. It signifies the sense of futility everything has now that he is gone, and how difficult it is to live without him. Think of it as one of those moments where things are going horrible, then something small like burnt toast of a glass breaking sends you into crying fits. It gives you a look into an actual, pivotal moment during her grieving time, as well as a metaphorical look at the situation over all, the perfectly made bed being destroyed by nature, just as her husband died by (assumability) natural causes (in Sodom south Georgia, his father dies with a smile on his face, indicating that it wasn't an accident, it was natural, like cancer or old age). around the end of the song he talks about his hands remembering hers, as they obviously held hands a lot, being mother and son, and he gives a nostalgic memory of his mother during happier times, working her in her garden. then he leads into his mother at present she sits at a window and thinks of the son that has moved away, and mends her husbands old clothes "they kiss as if they know a baby sleeps in all our bones" is a personification meaning that the clothes remind her of him (kiss as if they know) and the part about knowing is that they "kiss" her in such a way that they seem to deliberately bring back a flow of emotions. the "baby inside out bones" is a metaphor suggesting that inside us all there is still a part of us that is very weak and fragile, like a child i love Sam Beam, he's one of the few people in the modern day who still write poetry worth reading or hearing. This song is probably my favorite one, although i usually have to listen to it right after Sodom south Georgia |
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| Iron & Wine – Teeth in the Grass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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he might be complaining "by the time you love me, we'll be dead" "by the time we all love eachother, we'll be dead" "by the time we've got nothing to worry about, we'll be dead" plus, when you think about it, it makes the last statement a bit more ironic than the others |
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