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Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics 11 years ago
This interpretation literally is the best i think anyone could hope for! So well written that it really affected me and helped me to understand more of what the song already did to bring me here :P Someone in 2010 sat inside Elliott Smiths head......

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Big Star – Holocaust Lyrics 15 years ago
Okay, i was thinking the meaning to this song was quite simple.......I thought it was literally someone talking about the death of their mother and how they almost feel like they have died too....

"Your mother's dead, she said
Don't be afraid

Your mother's dead, you're on your own
She's in her bed"

From my point of view he is describing how his mother looks in death and talking about how it mirrors his own emotional state, as in the first lines....

"Your eyes are almost dead, can't get out of bed
And you can't sleep

You're sitting down to dress, and you're a mess
You look in the mirror

You look in your eyes
Say you realize

Everybody goes, leaving those
Who fall behind

Everybody goes, as far as they can
They don't just care"

a kind of shock this is why the song is so empty and why he references the holocaust....emaciated....mindless....he's also referencing how he understands that death is necessary and how perhaps he is trying to learn that love existed....i don't know i think its difficult because some of the lines could suggest it is the feelings of someone else, or himself....?

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