| Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I must say I have just seen this comment and it reflexes the way I feel it much more that what I actually wrote jaja... I agree, The meaning of this song is quite clear if you have lived it.. | |
| Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree with many of the things you thought! excellent man! | |
| Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I am convinced that this song talks about the evolution of a person's mind. He could hardly care about communism, capitalism, or any other ism... he is talking about the fact that life is happiness, happiness comes with little things. Of course, he goes through questions like "who am I?" or "what should I do?", but he ends up realizing that he can be happy working in an orchard, getting his food there, seeking for Innisfree, the land where everything is happiness, where everything is perfect. Just an Orchard, and himself, and a woman, who can work in a store and long to run it, as they both grow old, giving to each other just what they need. This is definitely a love song. "I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that will do such injustice to you. Or bow down and be grateful, and say: "Sure, take all that you see!" to the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me" He's showing that he feels his love is much purer than the armies of night, who do such an injustice to such a beautiful and incredible thing (remember that in Montezuma he says "Oh, how could I dream of such a selfless and true love?". I believe that to understand this song, you have to pay attention to every single song in this album). On the other hand, he is showing his disapproval of this society, which intends to take what doesn't belong to them, the men who move only in dimly-lit halls (men who do not want their faces to be seen, You think why...) and determine his future, cause they are in power, they HAVE to control our future, and they have no right to do that. Apart from that, you have moments in life in which you don't know what's important, you might think: I must be part of something greater than me. or maybe: I must be unique, perfect in each way, I must be myself and live my life as I wish. But what he is sure about, is that he'll get back to his love someday soon. "If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?" Here, he is showing how inlove he is with the world, how much it dazzles him to see all the perfection around him, all the great things of life... He realizes that he shouldn't wait for anyone else, he should live his life, but once again, his love for that special person keeps bringing him back to this world, "I'll get back to you someday soon, myself" So, he has to live his life, but his feelings tell him to go back to her, because in her he sees everything he longs for, the perfection, the happiness, Innisfree... He keeps having crossed feelings about what he has to do, what he wants to do, and what he does, but in the end, perfection, art (showing the love for the beautiful things in this world) and love keep showing up. This is all he needs to keep living: "Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn... If I had an orchard, I'd work till im sore... Someday I'll be like the man on the screen..." Well, that is my conclusion about this song after listening to this album and this song repeatedly for many months... I hope you enjoy it and I strongly recommend that you listen to the full album all the way, reading the lyrics and feeling the songs. By the way, the song and the whole album seem to have a connection to drugs, and the state in which you are completely happy... |
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| Supertramp – Travelled Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Travelled the world a million ways, catching upon a familiar gaze. everyone lives by do or die" I'm quite sure that's what he says... |
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| Supertramp – Two of Us Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I actually thought that "Look at me I'm a speck of sand, And I'm building dreams in a strangers land Tell me why do I care" meant that he is doing something for someone else, he's not doing what he believes he should do. He's building dreams in someone else's land, not in his own, he's living someone else's life and is not quite sure why he does on with the lies... but as long as there's two of us, it doesnt matter, cause that person makes it worth all the shit... probably thought it that way for my personal situation, but it's a possibility, right? |
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| Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Actually, I think he got it quite right... this would fit perfectly with the idea of Innisfree, which is mentioned throughout the whole album. | |
| Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I strongly believe that the songs in this album MUST be analized in the context of the album. The whole album is telling a story, everything is related. Therefore, I find it necessary to take a look at the previous song in the album, "Sim Sala Bim" (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858864342/). There, we find that this "fictional" character is suddenly the same one as in Montezuma, Bedouin Dress and the rest of the album. In Sim Sala Bim, he left his wife, the woman who is singing the song. "He was so kind, such a gentleman tied to the oceanside Lighting a match on the suitcase's latch in the fading of night Ruffle the fur of the collie 'neath the table Ran out the door through the dark Carved out his initials in the bark Then the Earth shook, that was all that it took for the dream to break All the loose ends would surround me again, in the shape of your face" (Sim Sala Bim) He left her, he went around reciting incantations, etc etc etc... He might or might not have found another woman. But now, he woke up one morning, realizing that his fingers are rotting, he's lost the life he used to have. He came to look for this woman(the narrator in Sim Sala Bim), but she was with someone else. The "Wide-eyed walker" line may have something to do with being surprised, amazed... the thing is that the line will be used again in "Grown Ocean", the strongest song in the album, if you ask me. The meaning of that phrase is still to be worked out throughout the album. This song is a key song, cause he might refer to this person in other songs ("Someone YOU'd Admire", for example). |
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