| TV on the Radio – Keep Your Heart Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| God, that was a trainwreck of words. I'm not even going to try and fix it. | |
| TV on the Radio – Keep Your Heart Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't intend this to be so much what I actually think this song is about as much as this is just me sharing a weird observation I made just now. As it happens, I just happened to be watching a clip from the interview with Dahmer the other day, and in it he was discussing the nature of his compulsions. And, as is fairly well known, he stated that, for some reason, he felt that somehow he felt that preserving the bits of the people he was murdering he could preserve the peak of their relationship. And this made me realize, though the reality of the acts which he committed were horrifyingly reprehensible, that revelation in a light makes him into a very tragic character. Maybe Tunde was taking some influence from Dahmer's story, I don't know, but the imagery of "kneeling above this playful body" conjures up images of a loving couple's foreplay, but at the same time the specific use of 'body', which could have been equally replaced with a word such as 'person' or 'woman', while 'body' has the inherent possible connotation of 'corpse', especially in combination with the equally potentially double-entendric line 'Dropped all your clothes and life'. And a heart can be a soul. Or it can be a heart. Dropping the somewhat wild premise of the psychotically misguided lover-turned-killer, this song is most certainly about the deeper underlying theme of such a premise, which is the deep-seated fear of the impending dissolution of a relationship which many of us have, and the resultant unrequited urge to somehow preserve the emotional glory of its peak. But it's totally about a psychotic murderer. |
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| Maps And Atlases – The Most Trustworthy Tin Cans Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love Maps and Atlases' briliant and unconventional lyrics, especially in the case of this track. I agree with all of your observations, sam, but I have a diferent take on the "tin cans". I feel that this is yet another instance of airplane imagery -- coming from the slang usage of "tin can" to refer to an airplane. And perhaps the caravan of picketeers refers to the rebellious nature of the person who's leaving's departure. I percieve it to be punctuated as "This is my best friend's locker without. Hooks still catching metal," as well. In this case the first sentence uses "without" to tell us that the locker is without any contents. And the only thing on the coat hooks is their own metal. And then, of course, we have the imagery, in the block starting at "you were never mine" (which itself is fairly blatant), where Dave tells us of all the good times spent with this last person. The song is so crushingly sad, though, because instead of being angry at the person who left for leaving when dave is finished describing the concrete circumstances at hand, he sings defeatedly about how the entire thing is his fault in the end. "Dear diary, I've become part of the problem now." Still very curious to know what "milking fangs into baby food jars" is all about. Perhaps a metaphor using the imagery of the defeated and 'used' predator, but I have no idea how that relates, exactly. |
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