| Middle Brother – Million Dollar Bill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is a pretty poor attempt at transcribing lyrics. All three sing considerably slowly and you still made many mistakes in the lyrics. | |
| Freelance Whales – Broken Horse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The entire album is a love story between a man and a femme ghost; a ghost of the past- one whom he knew in his human life. The love story also takes place between shallow reality and a deep-sleep dream. The first half of the song is reminiscing about their love together Bundle up and come with me now / Down the road where to the burnt down barn / We could make a blanket of coats / And breathe our souls into the neighbours front lawn But as said in the beginning of the song, they never broke 'that horse' which I think represents the fact that they never made it as a couple. The second half is the 'break up;' whether due to her death (which I personally think) or that they just faded away. We're sorry for the iron shoes / We nailed to you / And stuck you in the rain **And then you sprinted away **Sprinted away to where I don't know **God's moving in your bloodstream I think this sequence represents the man driving his love (embodied by the horse) away, to the point of death. I think 'to where I don't know' means that the horse is forever gone -- in a place where 'God's moving in [her] bloodstream,' representing Heaven. I think this is the recount of how his love was transformed into the ghost, in which he is obsessed with throughout the album. I think this song is his story of regret. |
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| Freelance Whales – Broken Horse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think you're on the right path with the sexual and pregnancy inferences. I think that this song is creating an allegory representing the love of a young man for a girl, ghost, dream, or in this case; a horse embodying all of the above. The entire album is seemingly a phantasmagoria of nostalgic feeling with roots of regret, emotional oppression and everlasting will-o'-the-wisp. It seems as though the imagery used to describe the horse provides proof that his love actually did exist at one point in time, as he is apologetic for stealing her hair (taking advantage of her?), nailing her feet (grounding her?), leaving her out in the rain (neglect?) and ultimately leading her to some sort of literal or metaphorical death-- where, God is moving through her bloodstream and the cross beats aren't as slow. Perhaps this is representational of her ascension to heaven- a good transition for her, but ultimately transforming her into a ghost in which the man can no longer humanly attain. BRILLIANT SONG! Also, I love the dialogue on this website -- especially discussing the brilliance of this album! |
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