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| The Decemberists – Cutting Stone Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I'm not sure that there is regret there. "And when I saw my labours through" - it sounds to me more like the narrator saw it as his duty. When the job would done, he could move on. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Old College Try Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I have a bootleg of a concert where John introduces this song and tells us all its meaning:
"This is a song about two people who love eachother very much, but accept their lot in life to torture eachother to death". |
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| The Mountain Goats – Moon Over Goldsboro Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Like everyone else I originally thought that this song was about a finished relationship, though for my part I thought that perhaps the woman had died, rather than left. The more I listen to it, the mnore I think that perhaps he is singing about a relationship with someone who has an illness such as Alzheimers disease, especially the last verse. I know that John worked as a phsychiatric nurse, and maybe there is some onfluence of that in this song. |
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