| Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[shortbus123abc:33632] I am 10 years late to this song, but I am currently in love with it. I was listening in the car for the fifth time and was suddenly like "...I think...this is..actually about a closeted gay affair?" Then I wondered if I was crazy. And bam, here's your comment. Thanks for posting. I feel less crazy. | |
| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[sarahn:19722] It's 2017. I'm hearing this song for the first time and thought the EXACT same thing. I don't believe it's necessarily what the writers were going for, but I'm glad someone else's brain went there! Also, @[szilvia102:19723], what the hell (I don't mean to offend, but you're quite rude, explanatorily, referentially, and anthropologically too). |
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| Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is, as many have said, about the hard times ("dog days") being over, but I think the bits where she says "she hid under beds" and "run fast for..." and especially "you can't carry it with you if you want to survive," all kind of indicate, for me, a sense that the happiness was RESISTED at first, ("from it she fled") Obviously it came on very suddenly (with all the images of horses and bullets and trains), but have you ever been in a situation where happiness is beckoning to you, but because of everything in your past, and bad experiences and memories, and fear of the situation going south, you resist going forward into it? I definitely have, and that's why I love this song so much. Florence nailed it. I think she has fallen in love very quickly, and is afraid to get too far into it because of her past negative experiences, but, "you can't carry [those] with you if you want to survive." In fact, she's sort of accepted it already, as she says "from someone who should have known better" and "can you hear the horses? Because here they come." This song is like the moment the dawn breaks. |
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