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| Josh Ritter – Still Beating Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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as a guy in his 40's, i tie the analogy of the dog days of summer to being in the middle of life, where there is regret and a lot of things you wish you'd seen coming. but yet, you have a lot of life to live and a lot of wisdom to be gained from your experiences. beautiful song by josh. |
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| Blind Pilot – The Story I Heard Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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it's very cool that there's this tie in to a homeless person - a guy that is drifting and trying to find himself and is clearly going nowhere - and then there is this religious theme that fits very well into the story line of joseph smith - who heard a story and led people to believe it. it's like he's meeting joseph smith in a day gone by much like he met jojo the homeless guy and he wants to talk to him. israel says that he's heard a story too, and the story that he heard is that people are bored, etc.and you should be careful about the path you lead people down. we're all discontent. we're all messed up. so we try to write our own story. but you're kind of going too far here. he's just saying that the god he believes in treats everyone the same. but he is not sure exactly how - what you say, what your will was. but the truth will come out in the end - he says, one of these mornings will be the loudest you'll here - we'll know the truth and we'll all be home. i really love this song. thanks for all the insight previously. |
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| The Lumineers – Slow It Down Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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i think he's reflecting on a relationship between two people who were young and had different aspirations. he wanted art / music and she wanted the fast lane. he found out she was sleeping around ("i feel her filth in my bones" - you don't "feel" filth, you see it, unless it's moral filth and it impacts you personally.) somehow he saw something in her that he knew he could reach - but she wore her "red high heels" and "locked up her doors with steel" and wouldn't let him in.
at that same time, when things were starting to fall apart in his relationship, they were also falling apart in his career, and he lost everything. the thieves break into his car, but they don't steel his heart - the stereo - his music.
then she moves on and he watches her. she pretends to be someone she isn't as she moves in social circles where she doesn't belong. "act like you've been here before". "smile less and dress up some more". cover up who you really are and bury that part of you that he was drawn to even deeper. but he warns her - "these boys are out for blood tonight."
as she sinks deeper into this scene, he sees her standing tall with pride, but also growing colder. he ends by looking back on their relationship and realizes that it never would have worked.
and as for her, "only love can dig her out of this".
"slow it down, angie come back to bed." that verse is so haunting and it drifts in its meaning from being about what he wants her to do literally to what she needs to do spiritually - in terms of coming back to who she really is.
great song. |
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| Ray LaMontagne – Like Rock & Roll Radio Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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What is meant by the term "pulling faces"? I am not familiar with the term, but I think it might mean that she was tying ribbons in her hair and making funny faces - perhaps in bed with him in happier times or in a silly home video they made. Seems to make sense...
It took me a while, but I like the analogy of their relationship being like Rock and Roll and Radio - just not being on the same page. Rock and Roll has become more about the road - the performances and the grass roots experience of live music, and radio is more and more fragmented. Hard to find a niche. Just like two people trying to live their lives together as though they are singing the same song for an extended period of time.
The line that says "are we strangers now?" is haunting. Even though they are physically apart, she will always be a part of him. Not really knowing where she is or what she's feeling, but it's almost like he can still talk to her. It's like there has not been a formal split. He just hit the road and they drifted apart. |
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| Ryan Adams – Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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And he also feels like her. She moans in ecstasy, faking it... One minute it's Oh My God, the next it's whatever, etc. He was doing a lot of drugs back then, and like the girl next door, the ecstasy fades in a moment. Easy Tiger also has the song "The Sun Also Sets" in which he says - "we are only one moment from death...". But I like the analogy also that he is manning the front desk of the hotel, and puts himself in that role for the song, but also tying it in to where he was as an artist at the time. |
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| Ryan Adams – Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It could also be about his time in NYC. He spent a lot of time in the Chelsea Hotel. Thin walls. "Lady of the Evening" next door. He finds himself alone. Wants to roll himself away like a card table... Plays for tips at night... |
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| The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Yes. This is it! Great job. I do think that she is in total control of her parents, and he is on the outside looking in - like, perhaps they disapprove. I also think that - because of the lines where he says "stop your parents car" "stall your mother" "disregard your father's words" "i wish that you would always stay" - perhaps she and her family are moving away and he wants her to stay with him... |
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| The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The story is definitely one of young love, his girlfriend is moving. He wants to stall it, but can't. Doesn't want to leave, but feels helpless to stop what is happening. He knows that the idea of a long distance romance is hopeless. Perhaps the parents don't approve. He burns the lyrics and moves on. I love how the song ends happily in a bluegrass-tinged jam. Makes me think the relationship was innocent, and ended as her car pulled away. Great song! |
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| The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I have one thing to add and that is the notion that the line "what you were then i am today" might indicate that he is returning to a place of his ancestors b/c brooklyn is such a landing place for immigrants being so close to ellis island. so i am thinking that the break up resulted in him coming back to brooklyn as a place to start over after hitting rock bottom - just so many american immigrants did. and the line "are you aware the shape i'm in?" is a repeating sentiment from a generation past that hit the shores of this country tired and hungry. |
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