| Fleet Foxes – Montezuma Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is much more personal in drive than trying to express complicated ideas about American ideology. He questions his own romanticism in hoping to find "selfless and true love" which may in fact be unobtainable. He notes that by his age his parents had already started having children and worries that maybe he should be getting on with his life, perhaps he cannot wait for his "true love". Mortality presses upon him and he remembers that once dead everyone is equal, which to me suggests further questioning of his romantic ideas for his own life because in the end maybe none of it will matter. Finally he openly admits his weakness in his fear of death and desire to take what is valuble with him, expressed in the form of gold jewellery, but more than this it is his wife's dowry which he wants to take with him. This returns to the idea that his love for her is not selfless as he had hoped it would be. As for cracks in ceilings or faces and montezuma to tripoli I have no idea. |
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