| Sufjan Stevens – Pittsfield Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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“Pittsfield is probably the most personal song on The Avalanche. It’s based on a lot of my life growing up in a big family where there were a lot of chores and we were always being asked to contribute to the household. To do work and wash the dishes. Work was an important factor in our life, and now that I’ve grown up I have a different understanding of work. It’s not so much about physical exertion but about applying skills to particular tasks. It can be an abstract task…I don’t want to get too Marxist on you, but that song is kind of a rumination on work in the house, you know and chores - that was really important growing up. I wrote a series of verses for that song and then sort of transplanted them in this little town in Illinois that’s very similar to the small town where I grew up in Michigan, after we moved out of Detroit. It’s still very self-conscious because it’s a song about how much work we had to do and how much I rebelled against that. But then I realized that as an adult and as a songwriter, that I have somehow, in me, the inclination to overwork myself that my father had. And I’m just applying it differently. So he would spend five hours mopping the floor and I spend five hours on a vocal line in the studio.” -Sufjan Stevens |
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| Jenny Lewis – Big Wave Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Living your life in the gray Is the new American way We're spending what we haven't made And we save our money in good faith And we work hard for our living wage But the still the bank's gotta break Because the dream's a lie And the snake, it bit you When you were awake And the books are fried You are bankrupting Because all the loans you take Big wave Big wave Big wave It's going to hit you with a big wave I can't sleep these days And my blues, they won't go away So there are these little pills I been taking And my doctor, she says that they're safe But I been sleepwalking down to the lake And waking up in the water And the feeling's a lie But the snake, it bit me When I wasn't awake And the scripts, they lie I have been poisoned from All the things I take Big wave Big wave Big wave It's going to hit me with a big wave Big wave Big wave Big wave It's going to hit you with a big wave I know you feel deprived (You don't trust me) Our love is still alive (You haven't touched me) It's really just that I don't feel Like it much these days And my love's a lie Because the snake, he visits me When you are away And your dreams don't lie I have been corrupted Because of all the lovers I take Big wave Big wave Big wave You're going to hit me with a big wave Big wave Big wave Big wave It's going to hit you with a big wave Big wave Big wave Big wave It's going to hit you with a big wave |
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