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| Pavement – Grounded Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Listened again in my car this afternoon. "Foreign" could be "fallen." "Foaled the fallen daughter". Same idea though. |
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| Pavement – Grounded Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Agree with Whit0685... foaled.
"Foaled the foreign daughter." Foreign meaning distant or estranged, and also perhaps bastard/out of wedlock daughter. Soaking up the fauna [smoking pot] doing blotters, I don't know which, which -- "which" can apply to the boys, but I also think it applies to "blotter" - he was so fucked up on acid that he didn't even know which tab he was taking at the time he fathered this estranged daughter. "Blotter" could also be a veiled reference to prescription drugs, and his out of control addiction to them, yet another in this huge list of indictments against the medical industry. |
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| Pavement – Half A Canyon Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"Tied like witches in the night"? Tied to the stake. Keeping his head up while he's burning alive... |
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| Pavement – Frontwards Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think the images might be connected by something as loose as a long drive in LA or Hollywood... they are like snapshots, or flipping through a magazine, or passing billboards... or the images floating through his head at a specific time, things that mattered to him that particular day, and the impact of those images. Probably a lot of people who listen to Pavement are middle class, but his attitude has to be from his own more affluent perspective - that said, I don't think he's making any kind of judgement about class at all, it's more of an observation about the general ennui and malaise of the 90's - or even more specifically, HIS general ennui and malaise at the time this song was written. Perhaps if anything it's about his discomfort with and/or guilt about his own station in life. Regardless, we have a slice from his life in this beautiful song, and context - and my favorite thing about his lyrics is that they can mean so many different things to so many people. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Fight Test Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Don't you all think Wayne Coyne is smart enough to write a song that means many of these things all at once? He's a pretty dimensional thinker. |
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| Pavement – Stop Breathing Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it's about divorce [his own or his parent's] and/or death, or death as divorce, or even divorce/death/tennis as a metaphor for a terrible breakup. He never said his peace, having been beaten down right at the get-go. He is either telling himself to stop breathing, or telling his dad to stop breathing, thus ending the terrible onslaught. Looking through a window down at a tennis court, covered with leaves, remembering, perhaps thinking about the court lines as a division of property. It's so bad that he's even getting off on the burial scene. The deathwish of a broken man. |
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| Pavement – Here Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I saw the Pixies reunion tour in Toronto, and it was great. I had a great time, they played a huge laundry list of their hits, sounded just like their albums [and you can decide yourself whether that's a good thing]. Having been a Pixies fan since 1990, and never having seen them, it was just perfect for me.
Fast forward... just saw the PAVEMENT reunion, also in Toronto, and it was clearly one of the best shows I have ever witnessed. They didn't try to sound exactly like the albums, they just played intensely, in the moment, and were strangely relaxed and even seemed happy to be there. Again, a Pavement fan since 1997 and never saw them in concert back then. But one of my friends had seen them several times back then, and said they were better than he had ever seen them play. I swear to god we're all still glowing from it. At the concert, I just kept thinking "THIS is why... THIS is why... they are legendary."
People, please don't die for a band. But get to the Pavement tour if you can - though it's probably mostly sold out by now. And really, it's ok to like both the Pixies and Pavement. You can even like Coldplay. And if you can like Everclear too, well congratulations on your open mind - but I'll keep them off of my playlist, preferring a much more novel sound, and challenging lyrics. |
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| Pavement – Gold Soundz Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I also think he wanted 'eat' to be confused with 'need'... eating is a necessity after all. He won't eat her and now he's wasting away... |
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| Pavement – Gold Soundz Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it's 'eat'... with multiple meanings, cunnilingus as discussed above but also to be taken metaphorically as cannibalism - this affair was all-consuming, eating each other alive... She is losing so much of herself to him, and he knows it. Underlined ever more heavily by their winter tryst at 'Advent' - the song seems to be written forward of this, sometime the following spring when he's getting drunk, remembering her and fantasizing that she was also remembering him. Advocating wasted as the last word on it - wasted time in the affair, and in remembering it.
When he shows up again in December, it is dramatic for her - but for him it's a boring change, because there's nothing he doesn't like about it; regardless it is essential to both of them to recapture something from their summer affair. This may be mostly horniness and convenience on his part, but there seems to be enough of a simpatico between them in their mutual misanthropic elitism that it makes him miss her. All tempered of course by the fact that this is somehow elicit - it has to remain a secret for both of them, and for whatever that reason is, cannot ever be a legitimate relationship. |
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