| Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i was going to analyze the song, but you hit it on the head | |
| Sleater-Kinney – One Beat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| After reading my last post, i realized I made some mistake in my last post but you guys get the point. My dad was blasting an old Traveler bootleg in here and my girlfriend was annoying the shit out of me. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – One Beat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Man has been searching for the eternal truth as far back as our history extends. He wants to know whence he came and where he is going and has attempted to substitute scientific pursuit for spiritual enlightenment. If we look at spiritual enlightenment as "the great unknown" or the sacred knowledge that "everything is the same even though it is different," then we sen in the first that despite all of his scientific pursuits, this eternal truth has had to enlighten everyone. The second verse asks "if you think like thomas edison could you invent a world for me?" rhetorically showing that man cannot use science to create a better world. Progress is regression. The earth was made with enough to sustain human life in balance with the rest of the world, it doesn't need man to act like gods and throw things off balance. Because mankind has tried to act like gods, we are now left with "bloody arms and oil fields." The line "could i turn this place upside down and shake you and your fossils out? oh oh" is an emotional cry to return to the past, a more natural, harmonious life with nature. The next line begs "take me to the source of chaos let me be the butterfly" which is perhaps a desire to go back in time and try to ensure that humanity doesn't mess up this time. To express that the untainted world is perfect, although nature might not appear as perfect to our distorted minds as our current way of life is the line "imperfect symmetry has underlying poetry and rhyme" A tree branch may not be straight but it is perfect. The next verse "you can't predict everything with newton like certainty why? 'cause it floats around all we see with oscillating energy on high and you soothe yourself with a sound you know you tune out the hypnotic dance perfect hexagon of the honeycomb and you soothe yourself with the shapes you know" is really just a different way of saying everything Ive explained above. The last verse starts with "your word for me is fusion but is real change an illusion?" which asks if what we are doing is really even making anything any better. To sum up my point I will use the last few lines. "if i'm to run the future you've got to let the old world go could you invent a world for me i need to hear a symphony oh oh " She is saying that, at this rate, the future of humans and many other species is not very safe and we need to stop with out "old world" ways and become truly progressive by paying more attention to what nature tells us. The last two lines are a rhetorical call for us to stop being gods. Beauty is in nature. |
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| Blues Traveler – Whoops Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Phish – Stash Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm pulling the pavement from under my nails I brush past a garden, dependent on whales The sloping companion I cast down the ash Yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash The premise of the song is that the protagonist and his buddies are on hallucinogenic drugs, hence "the stash." The first lines are told from the perspective of a hallucinating protagonist. He's pulling dirt that appears to be pavement out from under his nails. Whether real or imagined, someone of relative authority is in pursuit of them. They run through some green scenery, and see whales. Then they ash a joint or a cigarette and the protagonist dangles his stash. Zipping through the forest with the curdling fleas To grow with them spindles, the mutant I seize I capture the dread beast who falls to his knees And cries to his cohorts, asleep in the trees When youre hallucinating, anything green looks like a "forest" and i can assure you that a bag of shrooms looks like a bag of "curdling fleas." The next lines represent the protagonist calming himself down and having a good time. We all know what its like to feel that bad trip creeping up and having to "capture that dread beast" who, tells his "cohorts" not to bother because youre having a good time, no matter what crazy shit is going on around you. Smegma, dogmatagram, fishmarket stew Police in a corner, gunnin' for you Appletoast, bedheated, furblanket rat Laugh when they shoot you, say "Please don't do that" Lines 1 and 3 of this verse are words you would repeatedly say when you were high to laugh and enjoy yourself with your buddies. The "police in the corner gunnin for you" dont actually shoot you but its symbolic that despite the fact that youre getting arrested or pursued or whatever, you are still having a good time. You laugh because its funny that they are on such a lower level of consciousness that they believe they really have any authority over you. Control for smilers can't be bought The solar garlic starts to rot Was it for this my life I sought? Maybe so and maybe not (Maybe so and maybe not) [4x] In reference to "Control for smilers can't be bought," no matter how hard they try, the authorities cannot make someone full of love have a bad time. The solar garlic starting to rot represent the sun going down. The last two lines represent the high person being asked some obnoxious question by the authority figure who catches him and his smartass response is "maybe so maybe not" My other take on the last line is that perhaps the trip finally does go bad, and once that happens youre on a slippery slope and your your smiles cant be brought back fro anything. The solar garlic starts to rot represent the source of the higher consciousness is turning into something ugly and "was it for this my life i sought" is a feeling of "I just wanted to get high and find my inner self and now THIS?!" The answer to this question is "maybe so, maybe not" because while this can be interpreted as something going wrong, perhaps it was neccessary fro the spiritual journey of the individual. |
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