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CocoRosie – Summer Breeze Lyrics

15 years ago

in what interview Sierra says she was abused? I totally missed it. And anyways it's Bianca who writes the lyrics. And what concerns "People all around the world deal with that situtaion everyday and come out of it still loving the abuser" thing, then why Bianca is keeping accusing their father in their songs over and over again of much "lesser" crimes? In only that Werewolf song she just morally annihilated him, but she never stopped (Lemonade, Fatherhood). If being a bad father is never forgotten, so what treatment can you expect for an abuser? Consequently, B. turns out to be not a kind of person that would tolerate anything like that from any of her kin.

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The Knife – Marble House Lyrics

15 years ago

I really don't know what the song's is initially about, but it seems to extremely relate to the situation I'm involved into now. The relationship, that leads nowhere, and it's better that we'd never met, and never had all those tender soothing/tears-drying/caring feelings, for they have no future, no prospects. What does it got for me? All that results from it, all the "seeds" sown are the prisoners of the circumstances and will never grow. Another kind of love it's easy to forget it is, but the love, the feelings, aren't really wanted to be forgotten. And the things I do for free - this voluntary self-torturing, that won't bring me anywhere. I hide them, I don't want them to be, but I can't help it.

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The Knife – Marble House Lyrics

15 years ago

I really don't know what the song's is initially about, but it seems to extremely relate to the situation I'm involved into now. The relationship, that leads nowhere, and it's better that we'd never met, and never had all those tender soothing/tears-drying/caring feelings, for they have no future, no prospects. What does it got for me? All that results from it, all the "seeds" sown are the prisoners of the circumstances and will never grow. Another kind of love it's easy to forget it is, but the love, the feelings, aren't really wanted to be forgotten. And the things I do for free - this voluntary self-torturing, that won't bring me anywhere. I hide them, I don't want them to be, but I can't help it.

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The Knife – Marble House Lyrics

15 years ago

I really don't know what the song's is initially about, but it seems to extremely relate to the situation I'm involved into now. The relationship, that leads nowhere, and it's better that we'd never met, and never had all those tender soothing/tears-drying/caring feelings, for they have no future, no prospects. What does it got for me? All that results from it, all the "seeds" sown are the prisoners of the circumstances and will never grow. Another kind of love it's easy to forget it is, but the love, the feelings, aren't really wanted to be forgotten. And the things I do for free - this voluntary self-torturing, that won't bring me anywhere. I hide them, I don't want them to be, but I can't help it.

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CocoRosie – Raphael Lyrics

15 years ago

I think the song is about the discrepancy between what the protagonist's mind and heart want. He/she feels a certain scorn for all this 'bloody nose & rose embroidered' stuff called relationships, and even admits his/her incapacity for them for the heart is 'splintered at its core'. And at the same time he/she still longs for and eventually involves into an affair with a girl (yes, it is a girl:'dreams of warm breasts settling n my mouth', 'drowning in your watery thighs' - never ever heard such a sensual description of desiring a woman). But in spite of all exaltation and lyricism the things remain the same, and 'don't speak I can hear you' doesn't mean understanding without words. It is rather 'don't speak, lest I hear you and see who you are, and all my delusive happiness will vanish'

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CocoRosie – Summer Breeze Lyrics

15 years ago

As far as I understand, Simon was their deceased brother's name. 'Brother' is a very frequent character in their lyrics (Rainbow Warriors, Milkman, Werewolf, The Moon Asked the Crow, Fatherhood, not directly in this song, but there are lines like 'but in the end your children die', 'magic doesn't save your kids','watch them walk away' etc) And I'm also really confused because of this name being mentioned in this very song, for it doesn't seem to be autobiographical at all. I watched recently an interview where Bianca says that she speaks in Werewolf 'about rape and incest in a very personal way'. Though the lyrics is very tough, actually I do not see any direct links to the fact of incest, at least what concerns her father, (cf Fatherhood 'You never were a violent type'), but brother was also in the song. And there are as well lines in Here I Come: Surprise me like a monster/My brother liked to scare me/A rape in the meadow/A fornicating fellow. Again, the word 'brother' was used in a very strange context. But on the other hand, there were much more cases of usage of lexis with positive connotations - 'my brother, my only kin', 'angel brother, I miss your hair, careless nature gentle stare'. And what all of this is supposed to mean then? In the end we just get a cocktail of controversial and sometimes mutually exclusive facts. If you ask me, I think that CocoRosie have a sort of so to say mythology of their own in their lyrics, and some facts of their biography just blend into their lyrical universe making inseparable whole. And it is art first of all, not a biography in verse. So if any answer exists, we hardly can find it in the texts.

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