| TV on the Radio – Wash the Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this sounds like a coda for the 2000s and a sort of snapshot description of the current state of modern humanity. We suffer heinous attacks and wage wars over our desire to consume while simultaneously that consumption is killing us by harming our environment. Gorgeous and brilliant. | |
| TV on the Radio – Province Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not sure if this is mentioned above and I know this thread is several years old so no one will read it anyway. That said I pretty sure this song is about opening yourself up to love even though you know you most likely will end up hurt. I feel like the specific situation might be about a relationship between a couple unraveling but that might just be colored by y personal experience since that's what I'm going through today. It could also be a wider view about the love of a parent for a child a person for a pet. Or just one of us for the rest of mankind. With pets you enter into this love knowing that chances are you'll have to put your pet down. Parents have to ultimately let their children make their own mistakes whether they learn from them or end up dead or in jail. Children as infants love uncondtionally but they grow and may grow apart from their parents only to one day care for them at the end of their lives. Gandhi, MLK or Jesus (if you believe) loved mankind even at the point of losing their lives. I think Louis CK said even in the best case scenarior, two people meet, fall in love, marry, raise a family have a life together, grow old and one of them dies before the other. Ultimately however a love ends doesn't matter its all the love that you felt for someone and from them that matters. It's the reason you have to keep loving. ...so this quote from above is apt: ""A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~Mohandas Gandhi "Suddenly, all your history's ablaze Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change Holding tenderly to what remains And all your memories, are as precious as gold And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole Have you running through all your red-cheeked days Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space Hold your heart courageously As we walk into this dark place Stand steadfast erect and see That love is the province of the brave" |
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| Electrelane – The Valleys Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The song and the poem it is based on are one soldier's dream of another who died in battle and a dedication to his friend's memory. | |
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