| Fleet Foxes – Isles Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is so beautiful. A lovely song about a man pining for lost love. | |
| A Weather – Spiders, Snakes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is so soothing... While I am religiously neutral, I definitely get the impression that the underlying theme of the song is God. I think it tells the story of - or rather it is a dialogue between - a man and his friend. It seems the singer is watching his friend lose (or perhaps has already lost) his faith in God and he's hoping that he can help him find his way back. In the beginning, if you look at it from a religious point of view, when referencing reading before bed, it could easily be the common practice of reading the bible before one goes to sleep. At the end of the second stanza, the narrator is telling his friend that he understands his feelings of disillusionment and emptiness, but if he could only accept God's love again, then those feelings can be cured. The whole third stanza is an interjection from his friend expressing his cynicism. He says that everything he did was by his own hands and God never helped him. It has almost a dreary feeling in that he doesn't seem to even want to try working hard because there's nothing to work for. The fourth stanza, is perhaps a reference to a faith-breaking incident, though I'm not sure. I am almost entirely sure, though, that the end when it talks about the footprints in the sand is a direct allusion to the poem "Footprints in the Sand" by Mary Stevenson which is a religious poem about God in times of hardship. The lines in the fifth stanza, "I hated none of you/I loved you all at the time" I can see as lines said from the point of view of God. He is saying that whatever happened to cause the loss of faith doesn't matter because He loved the friend, and will continue to do so no matter what. Finally, the last stanza is a huge metaphor about the faith of the narrator and his friend. The nest (faith) supported them when they were helpless and needed security, but now the friend is deciding fly away from the nest. Still, the narrator comments that maybe things have not changed; his friend is out exploring something different, but he may come back to that nest in time, back to where his faith was first hatched. |
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