| The Dead Weather – Old Mary Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Thanks to the fact of my being a failed Catholic, for quite some time I thought the phrase "mother to the world" was part of Hail Mary, when in reality I was just remembering it from this song. And now I'm mad that it isn't in the actual prayer, because it's an awesome title that she ought to have. Someone call the Pope. (Meanwhile, want to hear something really creepy? Listen to this in reverse.) |
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| Neko Case – Ghost Wiring Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can't make out the first part, except maybe an "I" and an "h", but I definitely hear something like "haughst" followed by two compressed syllables that sound something like "ptl". I've slowed down and enhanced the clip using my meager audio editing skills, if anyone's interested: http://wooshck.org/Audio%20Files/ghostwiringevp.mp3 This makes me wonder: do you think that she used a real EVP sample for this? Because it's freaking me out in ways that man-made creepyvoices usually don't. |
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| I Monster – Daydream in Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The very first time I heard this song was in a commercial featuring various glamourous, done-up women in trees, working in a field, etc. I really wish I could find it, because my memory on it is hazy. All I know is that despite (because?) of the very sunny (blazingly, even) environment, something in this commercial hit a note that said "There is something very, very wrong here." The first thing that came to mind was that is was a cult, and that the women were all brainwashed. And THEN I listened to the lyrics, and, well. It got worse. Now I can't possibly purge my mind of the idea that this is the fantasy of a Gary Heidnik-style serial killer, interspersed with the barely-realized (to the narrator) reality of the women he kept captive. Hence, the back and forth between the airy, dreamy segments and the coarse, raw, nigh-unintelligible segments. It terrifies me. I love it. |
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| Neko Case – Red Tide Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For some reason, this always reminds me of the movie "The Mist"; weird monsters invading, wetness and debris everywhere, probably all sorts of smells. Someone needs to make a perfume out of these smells. I'd wear it. @,@ |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think this is either pro- or anti- god and/or god, e.g. "Laugh now, but just you wait..." or "Look at these religious hypocrites!" It just doesn't seem judgemental like that. I think it's just an observation of how some people will act in a given situation. Also: I don't think it's about atheists who mock god one minute but completely give up their beliefs as soon as something bad happens-- nothing that extreme. More like theists who don't really pay attention to their god/religion most of the time or make light of it-- tho' still declaring themselves believers-- who will turn to to it only when they feel desperate. But unlike what others are saying, I don't think it's mocking these people or calling them hypocritical; it's just observing. As for the "crazies", they definitely seem to be of the "Westboro variety". Because if they were crazy atheists, why would their rantings make _god_ seem funny? They're on their own. Where, meanwhile, a religious person ranting about how god hates you/everyone makes god look stupid, too. And on another note, the verses and the chorus don't necessarily need to be polar opposites ("you'll laugh at god, but then..."); they could just be describing different human interprtations of god. For example, there's the god that will give you material things if you stand at just the right angle... and/or the god that'll rain hellfire upon you if you don't. Or there's the protector/parental god that people turn to, the kind outside of popular interpretation, belonging more to the self... if that makes sense? Kind of how people will cry out for their mother when something horrible happens to them, almost like a reflex? Maybe something like... you'll laugh at god-as-viewed-by-others, but not _your_ god? Still not sure about the at/with difference. Is it sincere "laughing with", or is it the "oh, I'm not really making fun of you (I am)"? The way she says it, I'm leaning towards the former. Almost like... you have to go with the flow (god, the universe, and everything)and laugh with the things that happen in life, because what else can you do? Sadness coma is no fun. Where am I again? |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wait. How is _cancer_ our fault*? Or, for that matter, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc? How do you have full control over your life when you don't live alone in the void? When you live in a world that has other people who will do things _to_ you-- and so will the world, for that matter? Unless you want to bring karma up in here, tho' that doesn't seem to be the god you're talking about. (*Not counting, of course, when its caused by something you yourself do-- e.g. smoking, etc.) |
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