| The Silver Jews – Slow Education Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Another option is that this idea about dying is not thoughts of suicide but just a fear of death and a fear of God's judgement. Are we judged by the omnipotent, benevolent God who brings the rain and makes the wind and the sun, or are we judged by the wrathful, malevolent God who banishes us from the Garden of Eden and strikes lightning down upon us? |
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| The Silver Jews – Slow Education Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've always interpreted this song as being about depression and suicidal ideation, for obvious reasons. The lines 'I'm lightning / I'm rain' seems to me to be indicative of bipolarism. The song has quite an air of misanthropy about it, the 'slow education' possibly being about the imperfection of human beings (as created by God). The lines 'everybody going down on themselves / no pardon mes or fair thee wells in the end' seem to corroborate that. Saying that, it's just my interpretation, and, this being one of my favourite songs, I'm loathe to care too much. |
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| The Deadly Snakes – Gore Veil Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I also think that it's about suicide, 'on the edge of a nice is calm simplicity / in the storm and the strife, there's a moment's clarity'. | |
| The Fall – The Classical Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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2. I think it's the fear and the awe, rather than aura 3. I've always heard 'the wild millennium of conspiracy' 4. 'Form of office' I have no idea about parallax/poleaxe though |
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| Bill Callahan – Baby's Breath Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the subject is either abortion or the break-up of a marriage, neither is particularly satisfying though. Also, although baby's breath is a flower that doesn't preclude abortion being the subject of the song. I was originally going to speculate that it was about abortion: Accepting that it is about abortion makes the last line obvious, 'you must reap what you sow or sing', he is singing, because he didn't reap (harvest) what he sowed i.e. his child. But then it makes the first line much more difficult, 'there grows a weed, looks like a flower' that then becomes 'it was not a weed, it was a flower'. Clearly the last line portrays the abortion as a mistake that the man/groom regrets, the first line, in my opinion, shows that he was never happy with the idea of aborting the baby in the first place; 'I'd cut a clearing in the land' is perhaps him trying to persuade the bride that it is wrong in this situation. but then all this is largely void considering the line 'it was me tearing out the baby's breath'. In any case, I cannot get any grasp at all on what 'how could I run without becoming lean' means. Really fantastic song too. |
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| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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He's singing that he doesn't need religion to find peace (inner-peace), religion being the 'lie'. I would guess that 'damning children' is in reference to children being having their parents' religion foisted upon them, or, more likely, to do with baptism - Christians believing that an unbaptised baby that died in infancy would not be able to enter heaven and would remain in Limbo/Purgatory. Similarly I'd speculate that 'making the ill a little more sick' is about Christian Scientists refusal of medicine. A very beautiful song. |
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