| Meric Long – Notes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's a story about developing confusing feelings for one of your best friends, and not knowing whether you're happy or sad about these feelings. The song has a happy opening, the joy and love in friendship, but then a more minor, somber chorus about his true feelings. Finally ending on an upbeat riff, he's finally accepted that he feels this way about his friend,saying how he can see a relationship evolving between them. "Baby you'll make this work..." |
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| José González – Fold Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To truly understand this song, you first have to understand the albums message. Jose is an atheist, and most of the songs (specifically "Abram", which is about Abraham from the bible sacrificing his own son) are about religious beliefs and ideas, and Jose's opinions on them. My idea of the meaning of this song is from the perspective of God, and how he looks at humanity. (Kind of an ironic message, huh?) "Taking time, to walk down all the aisles. Turning over every stone." - God is trying to find out about humanity, by doing everything he can and observing what he can about them. "Building new rulers, but still haven't burnt any old." - While human society and it's leaders have changed, the same flaws in humanity that god sees are still prevalent. "Please don't let me down this time." - He is asking humanity to please him and change the ways that he sees, as the world has already let him down before. "Keep both feet on the ground, while I change the wings." - This line is tricky. I think it could mean that he either want's the few angels left on earth to please stay and try to help the human world, because he will grant them (with new wings?) if they do. I also think it could mean that god wants to go down to the humans and change them, and try to improve them, although he is not sure what is wrong. "I promise one day I'll be coming around from my cloud to see what it's all about." - Again, saying how he will descend from heaven and observe "what it's all about", meaning problems humanity has. "Please hold me back, if I tend to lose it and steer into old tracks." - God is asking that someone stop him if he resorts to what he has in the past, (Noah's flood.)or that humanity changes before he has to take drastic measures. Maybe my interpenetration is a tad too observant, but that's what the song means to me. When I learned that Jose was an atheist and that this album was about human ideas on religion, it really changed the way I listen to his music. |
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