| Miike Snow – God Help This Divorce Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A man still in love with his wife, ruefully cooperating in their divorce and feeling bad for himself, blaming himself. "She was a beauty queen but I held her down" meaning he held her back from enjoying the life she could have had without him. This is only his own interpretation, the tone of the song makes me think he is being too hard on himself but is not self-aware enough to see it. His self confidence is too low to fight back, he blames himself, he sees "beautiful faces" and takes it for granted that they are not interested in him because he has no self-worth. A very sad song with a beautiful melody, a nice, bittersweet juxtaposition. |
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| Miike Snow – Archipelago Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song evokes the feelings of disillusionment and futility of Heller's Catch-22. Literally, I think the song is from the point of a view of a Air Force bomber who was injured during one of the many air raids in WW2, and is now confined to a bed in a hospital, ruminating about the transience of life. "I feel it coming on a sense of welling grief, and though they're serving samovar I think I'd rather be up in an airplane" He's out of the action and recuperating, but after his experiences he is no longer able to enjoy civilian life, he's seen how fragile it is. Perhaps he has PTSD. "The leaves the gardener rakes are articles of faith" suggests that people going about their normal chores are unaware or unwilling to believe how meaningless they are in the face of the destructive forces of war. "I see where you grew up and the murderer in me" He simultaneously connects with his targets and with his remorse at his role in the war. |
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| Stateless – I'm On Fire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Lyrics should be: whatever you've done, just bury it and swim back down to the ocean bed and find the secret place where we buried those bones while we explore our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones I don't care where you've been tonight, It is of no consequence my dear, just stay here in my arms awhile, my love The rest of the world could disappear and I wouldn't care cause I'm on fire I guess I should open another bottle of wine light another cigarette and turn the record over And play the songs we sang when we buried those bones while we explored our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones |
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