| Animal Collective – I Remember Learning How to Dive Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[nowhereman1980:9407] Yeah, I completely agree -- I heard it as "I remember learning how to die" for ages, which makes it a much more somber song. I think that it is definitely a metaphor. But I also long the "wheee" in the song, that Vashti sings with Animal Collective, which makes it so childlike and sweet. I love this idea that maybe even as we lay dying we can have this sensation that reminds us of learning how to dive as a child. But the metaphor could be for anything -- in a similar vein to David Lynch's "catching the big fish", it could be about following your passion, overcoming fears, and just diving in. |
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| Animal Collective – Taste Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Huh. I come from a yogic background and always appreciated the lines "Am I really all the things that are outside of me?/Would I complete myself without the things I like around?" from a sort of meditative and mindful perspective. I like the idea that we draw inward and inward and inward until...there's nothing more to latch onto, and thoughts are no longer born. And from there awareness can start broadening outward again and there is this sense of being unified with and connected to "all of the things that are outside of me." I agree with other commenters, though, that this song is more about being authentic and oneself. I also really like the second line, though, because it (for me) elicits a sense of detachment -- "Would I complete myself without the things I like around?" Am I able to still fill my own presence and find happiness without attachment to the things that I "like" and keeping them closeby. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Considering the fact that this was a song I sing to my lover, I was very surprised by all of the interpretations that reference the grotesque, embryos in jars, and the Holocaust. I really do feel that this is a love song. I think that it could be him (the two headed boy) fighting to love himself or to love another. Here is my scripting of the song: First verse -- "I am listening to hear where you are." -- I want to find someone who understands how trapped I feel, inside this glass. Chorus - "In the dark, we take off our clothes...placing fingers through the notches in your spine" -- I find "notches in my spine" a particularly strong phrase, as it indicates letting someone place fingers through a very vulnerable part (notches) of someone's skeleton that should provide support (the spine). I personally find this image to conjure something extremely intimate, like, "I will let you in. I will let you grace my weakest points with love." Everything that this boy could keep inside does not need to be kept inside anymore. "Now your eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their cloud" -- Okay, so if we take the metaphor of the two-headed boy...this is probably someone who is very self-conscious and thinks a lot (two heads/minds/brains). This person probably has a hard time getting out of their own head without being judgmental, and probably has a heard time calming the mind and dealing with incessant mental chatter. So this line to me indicates that when the two-headed boy is loved and embraced, his mind can be still and at peace. "With the needle that sings in your heart, Catching signals that sound in the dark" -- The sun is blacker than black, he is in glass, feeling trapped, he just wants to be loved through the darkness. Despite everything, he listens to accordion music and dances and it resonates with this person (it sings in their heart and she catches the signal). "Made for his lover who's floating and choking with her hands across her face" - this line actually does stand out and is a clear reference for the siamese twin embryo image and metaphor. But what does this mean, as a metaphor? You are so close to someone that they can feel your pain too. Look what this does to the lover. The last line is my favorite, and is what I like to sing to my lover: Two headed boy There is no reason to grieve The world that you need is wrapped in gold silver sleeves Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow And I will take you and leave you alone Watching spirals of white softly flow Over your eyelids and all you did Will wait until the point when you let go I think this means that the two-headed boy just needs to love himself. The lover cannot make this possible. So she/he will take the two-headed boy to a place that is soft and beautiful with Christmas trees and presents. I think this means that the cold, the winter, the rough parts of life do not have to be so scary all the time. The spirals of snow can softly flow in this beautiful trance-evoking way. So the lover leaves the two-headed boy alone but only for his own sake...he/she (the lover) will wait until the point when he lets go. In a Buddhist sense, I think this refers generally to letting go of attachments. Calm the mind. Slow down. Love yourself. Realize how much of your suffering is self-induced. And the true lover will guide you to a place where your mind can be still so that you can get to that point. |
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| The Beatles – Long, Long, Long Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I would like to offer a somewhat odd interpretation of the song. I know that Harrison himself has said that the song was about his love for God, but taking a very spiritual interpretation...this song could kind of mean the acceptance of one's true self (beyond the singular "ego", of course). That is what the song reminds me of, personally. It is the idea that you search for something outside of yourself to guide you along, and then find that is within you as your deepest essence. I think lines like "Now I can see you, be you" are indicative of this type of interpretation, but I confess the view is biased by my own experiences with spirituality. | |
| The Beatles – Long, Long, Long Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I completely agree. This song used to make me cry every time I heard it, and it was such a deep and sincere cry...I really liked it. It still brings out a really powerful emotional response for me. It really is a powerful and beautiful song. Even the opening guitar notes make me stop and pause and feel everything that I have in my person to feel at the moment I hear the song. | |
| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is about loneliness and self-doubt, which are perfectly natural things for anyone to contemplate and fear. He is looking into his past, wishing that all of his lovers could be beside him and that they could enjoy a journey all together. He is looking at where he has been in his life and how scared he is to admit that he keeps moving on, losing lovers and drifting into the unknown. It could be a reflection on death, too, but I think it is more about loneliness and giving up the previous ideas of who might have thought he was to account for all the places he has been in his life. | |
| The Knack – My Sharona Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| The Knack – My Sharona Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Is anyone else deeply disturbed by the line "Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"?! I could not believe it when I heard that lyric! I'm surprised the song aired as much as it did, considering. I mean, sure, it's a catchy song...but, holy crap! Pedophilia in song form. | |
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