| The National – Conversation 16 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I like this interpretation very much! Adding on to it - my two cents: Silver city is slang for Hollywood, California (or 'Cinema City'). Hollywood movies are full of false hope and materialistic desires. Therefore 'silver girls' would (figuratively) be Hollywood girls, who the narrator says are welcome ('Leave the silver city to all the silver girls') to have the shallow lifestyles rampant in Los Angeles, etc. [Note: "It's a Hollywood summer" & "We belong in a movie".] The desire to be a part of that make-believe "Hollywood" world is creating a feeling of loss of identity, being replaced by artificial personality traits and becoming a 'zombie'/evil. This conflict puts the subjects of the song into a dark place and the inner conflict gives them 'black dreams'. |
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