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| Tori Amos – Code Red Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It sounds like its about the jadedness that comes with being romantically sexually experienced to me. Maybe mediating that with alcohol? Given, it doesn't so much explain the first stanza, but "what you stole I would have given freely" has always sounded like a rape refence. |
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| Hem – Half Acre Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think its about home... how, sometimes, we may resent our touchstones for the hurt they've caused us along the way, but in the end they bring us the most comfort and THAT is "what we remember". |
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| Iron & Wine – House by the Sea Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The imagery really harkens back to older trad music. There's also some interesting parallels with the Audrey Niffenegger story, "Three Incestuous Sisters" in which a set of sisters who live by the sea take in this man who two of them fall in love with him... its worth checking out. |
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