| Animal Collective – Bluish Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"Green" actually often means new. Not good, or even still together. I think that line is about how nervous he was with her at the beginning of their relationship. And the whole song is about how he's still completely enthralled even after all this time. |
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| My Brightest Diamond – I Have Never Loved Someone Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Definitely a mother song. I just imagine her son listening to this when she's passed on. Fudge, my heart. It hurts. | |
| My Brightest Diamond – Be Brave Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song is aimed at her, but it's more specific than just giving herself courage. She sings about how she feels uncomfortable, like she doesn't belong where she is. Based on most of the lyrics I feel like she's singing about depression. It's hard to be hungry and happy, it's easier just to be. She's disconnecting from her emotions, like it hurts or it's a struggle just to feel anything. But she knows she has to, and she knows she has to change if she wants to live her life, so she forces herself to. Puts herself under house arrest, beats herself by being angry. Or being anything really. Maybe donning her mask, dress, and finger bells is a metaphor for writing music? Like, performing helps her cope with the shit she goes through, like it's happening to someone else and not her. At least, that's what I get from the song. |
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| Hot Chip – And I Was A Boy From School Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It seems like a very tragic story about two high school sweethearts who either couldn't conceive a child or lost their first child and it tore them apart. In the first stanza he's describing what they were like when they met. And the last verse he mentions that "nothing could keep her a child", which could be interpreted to mean she grew up too quick or that she literally couldn't keep a child. Though I feel it's the latter, considering he follows that statement saying "Long hours, don't you know we tried". Perhaps referencing the pressure to have children put on them by family and peers. The second stanza talks about how they would meet in secret as teenagers, starting off innocently and lovingly, then turning into a hopeless effort to conceive as they got older. The "nothing" he references could be the child they never had or lost. The "everything" means two things in that case, first the events that lead to them being together, and second the events following the loss of their child. My interpretation could be way off, but it sort of fits. Either way, it's a sad way to look at the song. |
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| Joanna Newsom – This Side of the Blue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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My interpretation: The blue or the sea: Reference to spiritual ideas of home. Considered to be where we come from. Could also reference to the spiritual journey of crossing the sea, seen in fantasies and such. Spirituality in general. Svetlana sucks lemons across from me, (This woman’s sucking the lemons she was dealt) and I am progressing abominably. (And I’m not doing very well either) And I do not know my own way to the sea (And I have no religious guidance) but the saltiest sea knows its own way to me. (But the worst of religions find their way to me.) The city that turns, turns protracted and slow (Even open minded cities change slowly) and I find myself toeing th'embarcadero (And I’m pulling the wharf to the spiritual ocean[Embarcadero could reference San Fran wharf]) and I find myself knowing the things that I knew (I know what I know) which is all that you can know on this side of the blue (And that’s all living beings can know) And Jamie has eyes black and shiny as boots (And this girl has eyes that walk) and they march at you, two-by-two (re-loo, re-loo) (And they come to you, marching) when she looks at you, you know she's nowhere near through: (And when she looks at you, you know she will keep marching.) it's the kindest heart beating this side of the blue. (She has her own way but does not force it on you, making her kind.) And the signified butt heads with the signifiers, (And religious leaders with their fans and help) and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words! (And we eat up their council) While across the sky sheet the impossible birds, (While the birds do what we can’t, fly, above us) in a steady, illiterate movement homewards. (Steady, without words, where they need to go.) And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon. (Gabriel, religious spirit of truth and messenger, stands on earth) See them rattle & boo, see them shake, see them loom. (And watches its natural occurrences) See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus; (And he dons the absurdist words of Camus) see him navigate deftly this side of the blue. (Watch him skillfully travel through the sky) And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue (Our minds will collect memories) when the shape of their goneness will flare up anew. (And when we are close to death we will remember them) Then we do what we have to do (re-loo, re-loo) (And we do what we must, marching on) which is all you can do on this side of the blue. (Which is all mortals can do.) |
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