| The Horrible Crowes – Cherry Blossoms Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just some speculation: He has been upset about his love leaving him (possibly for someone else) and has been dealing with it by going out to the bars, getting drunk, and then going for a drive to clear his head. This particular time he drifts into thoughts about her and begins to wonder what she would do if he were to drive off a bridge and kill himself. He's obviously bitter in thinking that she would just continue on with her life with a new man and think nothing of it. In the end, however, he drunkenly crashes his car into a cherry tree. He seems to just be injured as a result. This may also be about someone close to him dying (maybe a child) instead of his love leaving him for someone else. Cherry blossoms tend to be a symbol for mortality for how beautiful they are and how quickly they die. Or maybe it's a combination of both. I don't know. |
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| The Horrible Crowes – Blood Loss Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song talks about a past love (or ghost of a past love) that refuses to let go of him. Sirens, in Greek mythology, were (and I'll copy and paste from Wikipedia because it explains better than I care to) "... three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island." As noted in the song "Go Tell Everybody" on this album, 'sirens' represent his past loves. They draw him in and keep his heart and mind a mess any time he tries to move on. "Blood Loss" gives us a more intimate picture of what these 'sirens' do to him. They seem to have complete control of him and sap him of all that he is until he has "cried long enough" and his "blood fills [their] cup." He can't simply move on, for they toy with his emotions every time he strays too far from them. Now, the part at the end ("Sirens they come and sirens they leave") can mean one of two things: 1) Every single love that comes in to his life sooner or later becomes a 'siren', whether one replaces another or they just get added to the rest or 2) the 'sirens' show up only when he is on his way to living life without them to draw him back in and then leave when they got what they wanted, starting the cycle over again. Personally, I think #2 fits better with the rest of the song. The 'sirens' show up and lead him to believe that they want to rekindle their past love and then leave him shipwrecked. For me, this song hits pretty close to home. I had a 'siren' of my own destroy multiple potential relationships after she left me out to dry to begin with. It always seemed that I was on my way to moving on and having a life without her when she would swoop back in and convince me that she was back to be with me. Then, right as I had committed to her return enough that I let go of a potential relationship with another woman, she would disappear and leave me to pick up the pieces. Until you take control of it and not allow the 'siren' to have that power, it is an incredibly helpless feeling. Feels a lot like this: And I'll tell you when it's over I'll tell you when you can leave I'll tell you when you cried long enough Til your blood fills my cup My footsteps, they hung in your hallways enough For you to be truly haunted |
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