| Joni Mitchell – Song For Sharon Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Joni was in her thirties when she wrote this song. It is her finest work, a beautiful reflection on love and marriage and why she doesn't have either. Stunning. | |
| Everything Everything – Leave the Engine Room Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have to say that their songs are about the human condition generally it seems to me, using specific things to be sure but there's an eye on human frailty human history, who we are and what we're doing. This is 'about guilt' according to Jonathan, inherited guilt, the absurdity of being born guilty which occurs in any conflict which goes on longer than a generation (Israel, northern Ireland, Yugoslavia etc) The engine room = the womb ? |
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| Everything Everything – MY KZ. UR BF Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The A4 paper taking over the guillotine is a similie - an image of the weak taking over the strong, or the victim taking over the perpetrator. | |
| Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's a fantastic piece of work on what is for me the finest album of the 21st century to date. All the above comments are vlid and welcomed. I also feel it's partly about reincarnation, that we've gone too far into inauthentic behaviour and lost touch with what is wild and real (foxhound on the abbattoir floor) we eat meat but we don't kill it. The inauthentic is illustrated by the Photoshop pic of his dad, who died in the war ? If you believe in reincarnation, "come back as something organic" is a plea for a simpler, shorter (?) life, perhaps a smaller brain (less scholar, less time) but - "more dollar" ?? It's a plea for connection, like the punch in the face which finishes the video. I love it |
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