| Cake – Comanche Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think this could POSSIBLY be from the mouth of Cake, it seems to holier-than-thou.. Like most of Cake's songs, to me it is a comment from a character's mind. So it's more like to say that the "settlers" came and just twisted the whole laidback cycle the Natives were living in. It's not JUST Natives though, as usual there's an allegory there; it's also a comment on native instincts (as in, that anyone and everyone has) and how society forces us to suppress them and, to some extent conform. Don't relax, get with the program and don't stray far from that or you won't go far. With us or against us baby. |
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| Cake – Jolene Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| LMAO | |
| Cake – Jolene Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It has to be her dad she wants out of her life, trying to rinse away the stink of tediously caring for the old fuck. I think you're pretty close but it wasn't cool to trash on Bright Eyes, "Jolene" isn't exactly a common name so who's to say there isn't some relation? To me, no one has any right to affirm or dismiss that but the artists themselves. | |
| Cake – You Part The Waters Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree that the song is about government and politicians. We're footing the bill! I love that it is also beautifully interpreted in its obvious theme, where it's about two people, one who seems to just walk through life valiant without pause to be thankful while this other guy struggles to help everyone out, he's an "everyman". But primarily a governmental allegory. Great song! |
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| Cake – Mr. Mastodon Farm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A song about a guy who reads way too much into life, and is entirely dependent on this "construct in his mind" to show him that things will turn out okay for him in the end. He is searching for optimism that may or may not exist, but he's basing his belief in this bright and shiny world on nonsense. There is no way that the singer is referring to himself or any other band member.... You can tell that by the way he disseminates "Mr. Mastadon Farm"'s method of thought. The singer/writer clearly holds a great distaste for Mr. Mastadon Farm, based on the fact that he is dependent on external stimuli to push him on rather than turning inward and getting some self-respect. Some people caught on to "mastadon" but missed the farm part... He is manufacturing these things, he "cuts swatches" from every thing that he sees, then stretches the fabric out to represent something it does not truly represent. I can occasionally be a bit of a Mr. Mastadon Farm myself, but never so dependent as he. I think when you listen to a Cake song it's important to note that they never seem to say anything "randomly", there are no "filler" lines, just music. Which I LIKE! IDK too much about them, just really getting into them, but I kindof have a feeling the singer is an existentialist... just an inkling. I'm Christian but I like his spirit. |
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| Cake – Mr. Mastodon Farm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| yes. I will expand on this belerrrr | |
| Cake – Mr. Mastodon Farm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| no | |
| Cake – I Bombed Korea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Cake may be pretty sarcastic, but I don't think that they would make such a light-hearted, ridiculous song about people getting killed, particularly considering (as it was mentioned) that none of them has seen combat. To me, it was a desperately clear allegory referring to juvenile sexual experience, including both sex and masturbation "I bombed Korea every night." Explosions=Ejaculations... come on it isn't "every night" randomly, in a song this short nothing can be random "Red flowers bursting down below us." maybe the experience of popping a girl's hymen (or the bleeding that keeps happening when girls are inexperienced, if you're throwing anything worth tossing that is) but I think just as much the joyous feelings you get during sex at certain points "Those people didn't even know us." The feeling that the full intimacy wasn't there, and that numbed the experience to a kind of carnal pleasure, desperate to feel that connection but really not feeling it. (we all been there, right?) "We didn't know if we would live or die. We didn't know if it was wrong or right." Statements about their frustration with the futility of their purely sexual bond, wether it's a man with himself or a man with another young woman, and multiple women. It refers not to just one experience but the ENTIRE juvenile sexual experience. I bombed Korea every night. And so I sit here at this bar. I'm not a hero. I'm not a movie star. I've got my beer. I've got my stories to tell, But they won't tell you what it's like in hell. Every man got his sex stories. I think this was the band taking their experience of a particular man, and applying his story and situation to what was something that they themselves could relate to-- awkward teenage sex. |
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