| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Posted five years ago, I know, but...yes - this, exactly. | |
| The New Pornographers – Entering White Cecilia Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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That reading makes sense. The only line I can't make fit this interpretation is "cruising the magnetic strip." Hmm...o.k, what if the "magnetic strip" is cassette tape? They played albums in the movie (and the book too, I think), but "cruising the magnetic strip" is undeniably more evocative than, say, "cruising the vinyl groove." Nifty. I had just ignored that line till now because I couldn't make sense of it thinking it referred to credit/debit cards or ID cards - that sort of thing. So, thanks. |
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| The New Pornographers – Entering White Cecilia Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I feel strongly that it's probably "sight unseen" not "site unseen." The first is a common expression (especially among older people) that means much the same thing as "(buying) a pig in a poke" or "(getting sold) a bill of goods." To buy something "sight unseen" is to buy it having never laid eyes on it. There are a few other things I just hear differently: "I fell to the floor just to see what was down there" vs. "I fell to the floor just to see if it was down there" "Howling, “What gives?” and/“Hey, what is with you?” vs. "Howling, "What gives in?/Hey, what is with you?" "Just look around at how the other half lives/So you did/They appeared undecided" vs. "Just look around at how the other half lives/So you did/But you couldn't decide it" "(You) had a feeling about what was down there" vs. "You had a view and the ballroom was down there" Absent printed lyrics it's hard to say for certain. One other little thing: I think it might be important to include the Las since they comprise the chorus and the lines "So what if you saw one of them go" and "So what if you had one of them go" both appear to be endjambed. |
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| Catherine Wheel – Fripp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I heard this as written about Robert Fripp, not a woman. It reminds me of Frank Black's "I Heard Ramona Sing." It could just as easily be referential in nature though. | |
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