| Johnny Flynn – Einstein's Idea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Laura Marling – Pray For Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this is one of her best songs yet. This, along with the other fourth album songs we've heard so far, show that she just keeps getting better. It's heartbreaking, true and beautiful. | |
| Laura Marling – I Am A Master Hunter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is such a beautiful song - I relate to it so much and it's really empowering! I guess she's been hurt by the person she loved so she's decided she won't let anyone else in (a reccurring theme in her recent songs, it seems) and this is her declaring her independence and that she doesn't need anyone. I'm guessing there was a pretty dark spell after the break up (the bit about water - like the part about dogs in Pray For Me). She's also slept around a bit, though is proud that the men don't know the real her and cannot truly access her, so she hasn't let them in. |
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| Laura Marling – Hope In The Air Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure this is about King Lear, from the view of Cordelia. Cordelia is his youngest daughter, she has 2 evil elder sisters. Lear asks his 3 daughters to say who loves him most. The elder two give long-winded and false speeches and their undying love, much to Lear's approval. When Cordelia is asked, she replies 'Nothing.'This sends Lear into a rage and he banishes her from the Kingdom. The word 'nothing' appears a lot in the play as a bad omen. The only people on her side are Kent and the Fool. The fool encourages Kent to leave Lear because he is clearly mad, but Kent refuses. 'No hope in the air No hope in the water Not even for me Your last-serving daughter' -This refers to the recurring belief in the play that they are all doomed and there is no hope. Cordelia is Lear's last-serving daughter in that she is the only one who remains loyal to him. 'From there no more ever I spoke.' -She says 'nothing' 'A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never,' -Just as Kent never leaves the King 'But you've never been south of what grows off your mouth You will never understand ever' -In his rages Lear uses brutal, monstrous language. He does not understand the effect it has on those he attacks, like he did to Cordelia. 'The angels that dance at your will Will mask your scrambling youth' -His false daughters and courtiers dance around him, sucking up to him and flattering him. Disguising his age. 'I forgave you your shortcomings And ignored your childish behaviour Laid a kiss on your head and before i left said stay away from fleeting favour' -Though he had wronged her, Cordelia forgave him and always loved him. Ignoring his childish tantrums and flaws. Before she left court, her last words were to warn him against the falseness of her sisters. Cordelia is hung at the end of the play, and Lear dies of broken heart. |
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| The Smiths – Reel Around the Fountain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Good to see that others view this as about Wilde too. I first listened to this song years ago and adored it, but only this morning it struck me how much it seems to be about Wilde. 'It's time the tale were told...' Wilde was a kind of playful, childish character. Until his imprisonment in 1895, after which he emerged a broken man. They took a child and they made him old. It's all about the injustice done to Wilde during his life for his sexuality, hence the mentioning of gay terms like 'reel around the fountain'. it's mirroring the vague illusions to gay love that got wilde arrested, such as those in the picture of dorian gray. Wilde declared the purest and most beautiful love to be the affection of an older man for a younger. Morrissey longs to be this younger man. Wilde's apprentice in the Greek tradition. 'Too lumps please' definitely referring to their conversations over tea. |
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| Laura Marling – Blackberry Stone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Something in this song seems to say suicide to me. He has turned his back on the world, and left it. She can't because of what she "lacks", perhaps the nerve to go through with the act. I think she left him before he died, hence "I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered", I think the reference to NATW is perhaps a thanks in sorts to Charlie Fink for their time together, maybe? In this song, she still loves the man "But I'd understand that I'd never let it go," "I whisper that I love this man..." The relationship was turbulent and there is criticism of him "You never did learn to let the little things go..." and he criticised her similarly. |
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| The Field Mice – Sensitive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"We all need to feel safe then that's taken away sometimes I want to return return to before the trouble began that time of no fear" I think this is about wanting to return to childhood when things were fairly easy and they didn't have to deal with deep, painful feelings. When you reach adolescence the safety is taken away and you have to figure out life for yourself, sometimes not liking what you find. "By showing you I'm sensitive you do risk being crucified crucified by those you are unlike" Rather than being about literally being sensitive. I think it's more about the world being divided essentially into 2 kinds of people. People who think about their life, feel the pain and the beauty of it with a primacy and passion. And people who just go along with their life, without questioning it, and are how they are. It tends to be the case, especially in adolescents, that the more "sensitive" people are ridiculed and "crucified" by the nastier of the others. He is saying that if he is more open with his friend about his way of thinking, they will be mocked by the thoughtless, offensive beings he fears. These beings are the "they" described in the chorus. |
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| The Field Mice – An Earlier Autumn Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Reminiscing about a summer romance. It's "to the night that was our last". "I cannot cry you said And I like you no less Than at any time before Now a memory we are" This is all about the night they split up. They still felt as much for each other as ever but summer was over and for whatever reason it was impractical for them to be together. |
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| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – This Love Is Fucking Right! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I reckon a tribute to This Love Is Not Wrong by the Field Mice (bloody good band) and follows the same theme of supporting homosexuality, specifically lesbianism here. "can you go home, look your best friend in the eye? No you can't go home after where you slept last night" Their friends and family would disapprove of the relationship. Love this song so much. This love is fucking right! |
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| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The singer is losing his virginity in a library "I never thought I would come of age...", the girl is trying to get over her ex "taking toffee with your Vicodin..." He accepts that she doesn't feel anything for him and will probably "go her own way" and they'll "never speak of it again. "dark winters wear you down up again to see the dawn" I think this is again regarding the ex the girl is trying to get over. She has had a dark winter grieving for their relationship, and her sleeping with the singer is her beginning to see the dawn. |
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| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – A Teenager in Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Now you go unseen, perfect youll stay hidden and i can dream of things youll never see" Simple, Alli has died. Hence, is unseen. The speaker talks of the glory of dying young as "perfect, you'll stay hidden." But the benefits of life that he "can dream of things you'll never see" "when youd finally gone he tells me "you were dead all along" he was wrong, he hadnt lived a day the way you lived your final days a teenager in love with christ and heroin" When she has died, her boyfriend tells the speaker that because of her addiction and the state she was in, she was dead all along really. The singer disagrees, commenting on the intensity of feeling and the passion of being alive when "a teenager in love with christ and heaven." "now you feel ashamed but he feels nothing of the kind he talks of things he wouldnt mind to try sometime," I think this is sexual rather than to do with the drugs. This boyfriend has seduced her and she is ashamed, while he thinks about the things he'd like to try with her, backed up by the line "his touch is not a thing you'll ever miss" I think the song is generally about this arrogant boyfriend taking advantage of her and not seeing the pain and beauty in her desperate position. The singer offers his help and understanding "If you made a stand..." but she rebukes it, choosing her love for Christ and heroin, and ultimately death. The singer does not disapprove of her lifestyle, and always has seen the romance and tragedy to it. |
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