| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Gates to the Garden Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it is a very good interpertation by budolino. Thanks! |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Sweetheart Come Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I actually also agree that "No more shall we part" is Cave's best album. it is my personal favorite anyway. It is not as violent or "juvenile" as some of the earlier cave and the piano+violin parts throughout the album are sublime. Of course that is not to say the rest of Cave & the seeds' work isn't incredible by it's one right. It's just that NMSWP is that good! |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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My interpertation is somewhat different from the common approach here. I you don't mind I would like to share it with you and would love to hear your opinion of it. I usually regard Cavessongs from a universal POV ie disregarding the person who wrote them and his circumstances and thats why drug use never came to mind for me. I always took this as a semi-fantastical ode of a recently deceased man to his grieving: "sorrowful" wife. "Our friends awarded her courage with gifts" So in that culture marriyingon the day of the eclipse is a bad omen and challenging fate as a short while after the wedding "as the nights grow longer and the season shifts I look to my sorrowful wife Who is quietly tending her flowers " the wife is already sorrowful and tending flowers which to me bring up cemeteries and funeral bouques. Since the narrator has an outside view of the scene I assume he in not physically present " Who is shifting the furniture around Who is shifting the furniture around " Since he is no more, and more time has passed, now the widdow is re-arranging the house "Who is counting the days on her fingers" again referencing to the time he has been gone. Notice that the narrator only observes the entire song, and all the active actions are performed by the wife. "Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew And the bluebells bob around our shoes The task of remembering the telltale clues Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife" addmitedly this part doesn't fit completely into my plot. still the one who is alive, who needs to remember, is the wife. now about the tree and type of flowers, i am neither american, australian, or natively english speaking so there may be some symbolism I am missing there, if someone could shed some light on that I'd be very grateful. "The grass here grows long and high Twists right up to the sky White clouds roll on by... ...Black trees bent to the ground Their blossoms made such a sound That I could not hear myself think babe" "here"-the narrator is not in the same place as the wife and the growing grass + the fact the black (color of death) trees kneel to the ground give the feeling of being close to the ground-even six feet under. the rustling of the leaves above is so loud it even gets to the coffin "Come on now and help me babe I was blind I was a fool babe I was blind Come on now" Now the narrator is repenting, but he cannot be helped anymore. This is basicaly my way of understanding this song, and I find it both Beautiful and haunting and immensly sad. Nick Cave is amazing |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Lyre of Orpheus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if he came up with this ppun first and the wrote an entire song around it :) Best track on that album IMHO |
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