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| Silversun Pickups – The Royal We Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Oh God, stop thinking so much. take what IS in the song stop piling shit on to it. Now keep writing devices such as METAPHORS in mind and perhaps this will make sense to you. God i'd hate to hear your interpretation of songs that actually use advanced literary techniques to express emotions. |
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| Silversun Pickups – The Royal We Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Advice- when interpreting someone's work, try not to attach everything you are feeling into their words. To understand art one must suspend preconceived judgments and suspend their desire to relate. Art isn't about relating it's about creating. Don't get hooked on a phrase or two and attach meaning that is central to your feelings so you can attempt to relate to the work. Take it in as a whole and remove yourself from the equation. Only through detachment can one truly see, hear, feel art. Perhaps this why so many of you struggled to find the meaning of the song, or had interpretations that were just absolutely off. |
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| Silversun Pickups – The Royal We Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Come on boy's it's really not that mysterious of a song. The lyrics are very good, but it's not like he is being obscure or writing in the abstract here. One comment said 'it feels like the most important song on the album' but he was at a lose when it came to lyrical comprehension, important is a broad term though it is clearly the most urgent song on the album. Musically orchestrated to summon a cosmic energy that wraps around the lyrics beautifully and highlights the fight of the authors life, as well as his lovers. Look guys it's not about war, don't just look at words like siege or royal we and attach bureaucratic thoughts of conquest to it. I guess because of terms like friendly fire if one just glanced at that phrase and didn't see the poem as a whole, that conclusion could be drawn. Fact of the matter is that the scope of this song is not universal or even interpersonal, it is merely the authors struggle with drug use (heroin probably) and his fighting struggle (war) to remove the drugs influence over his life. He is also expressing guilt and speaking of a struggle to come to terms with the fact that he involved his lover in the abuse of the heroine. references to being 'armed for the fight' are shown throughout the peice, and withdrawal is a major theme as well. Not a super deep song, it was written from a very tonal level of perception. Though the beauty of it lies in the pure sincerity are intensity of his desire and awareness to overcome. Perhaps ssp best song |
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| Mike Doughty – More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Most of you people on this site terribly misinterpret his lyrics, i mean there really not that open or obscure. Doughty is a descent writer but let's not give him too much credit here, if i hear the term brilliant or even genius in reference to his song writing I will have lost faith in the intelligence of my fellow humans. He is a clever and somewhat humorous writer, and this is a great example of that. This song is about the submission of a man to his woman's exotic sexual desires. Basically he's talking about being cuckolded by his woman and a black man. He is coming to terms with the situation and is realizing his powerlessness. So many clever clues in the lyrics, and finally "better the devil you know" guess he thinks it's better to watch |
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