| Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (Black Sheep Boy Appendix) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I identify with this song a lot. I often take drives when i feel depressed and sleep in the backseat of my car in rest stops along the freeway. And yeah, I have a beat up '66 mustang too. | |
| Shearwater – My Good Deed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've been listening to this song a lot and i know it's a little far-fetched but i think it makes a lot more sense if all the "us" and "we" means himself and his evil intentions. So every time it comes around I just let it die inside me You said, "I only come around Because I just need you to hide me" in this part his evil intentions are basically saying "i only exist so you can hide my existence" because that's what the first two lines of that part make him feel like he's doing. when he says "we knelt in those dead weeds" he is again talking about himself and his evil self. I'm not going to make you take the pills Though you should really think about it The fire by which we both were almost killed Glowed so beautiful, don't doubt it In this part maybe his pills are suppressants so he tries to convince his evil side to take the pills. the second half might be his evil part talking back "There's a space I tried to fill But I'm seeing now I never will You fly around while I stand still Until I slowly just get smaller and smaller" Here he could be seeing his evil part become the dominant one "we both found out that I was dreaming Of the day I thoroughly could hurt her" Here it's both of himselves finding out, which I think makes more sense than him and her. "I once felt a feeling fully through Though I knew I shouldn't feel it" This "full" feeling is obviously bad. Probably something evil he wanted to do to the girl. "Feeling the fullest moment of my life Slowly shrink away from me " And I think in this part he actually did it, and as he walks away he's loosing his adrenaline rush, that's why it "shrinks away" This is completely different from what your first impressions might tell you but if you listened to the other songs sung by Will Sheff like "For Real" or "Westfall" in his current band Okkervil River, this seems much more true. |
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