| My Brightest Diamond – We Added It Up Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"we added it up to ZERO" "Flying NEUTRINOS fly through my hair, my feet, what a pair of exhausting inexhaustables" |
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| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Does anyone else pick up on all the nabokov tendencies newsom has? i feel like she has read all of his books and absorbed them, especially lolita, and it's very fun for me (as a fan of both artists) to think about them together and draw connections. both use some pretty vivid language and emotional intensity with their words. in nabokov's lolita, humbert humbert recalls a song that lolita loves, and it's about a lost love of some type. i hear this song echoed in baby birch. it goes: O my Carmen, my Carmen! Something, something those something nights, And the stars, and the cars, and the bars and the barmen-- And, O my charmin', our dreadful fights. And the something town where so gaily, arm in Arm, we went, and our final row, And the gun I killed you with, O my Carmen, The gun I am holding now. the lost love, the guilt of having killed it, the stars, the cars, the rhyme scheme---all very similar. any thoughts? |
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