| Bright Eyes – Landlocked Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I completely agree. It's about life. It's inescapable; you're landlocked. You can never truly walk away from the ultimate pains of life - no matter how much you try to avoid them - until the day you die. Throughout life, people walk away. Sometimes they do it to hurt, sometimes they do it because they are hurt, sometimes it's an acknowledgement of weakness, sometimes it's and understanding of one's mistakes, and sometimes it's completely unintentional. This song really does reference everything. Love and loss, life and death, war and peace...and there are so many incredible juxtapositions too. Probably the most powerful (to me) is the verse "We made love on the living room floor With the noise in the background of a televised war And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say If we walk away they'll walk away". That image just gets me every time - an act that represents the greatest culmination of love for a person contrasted with an act that represents the greatest culmination of hatred towards a person. It’s just…profound. The entire song is. The whole song is so heart breaking and yet so beautiful at the same time because it's honest - it stares the imperfections and pains of life right in the face and then goes even further to bring them out into the light for all to see. There's just something powerful and empowering about truth. |
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| Bright Eyes – Landlocked Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I really prefer this version of the song to the one that's on SC50. I just feel like there's so much more emotion in both the lead vocals and in the harmony. The feelings conveyed in the lyrics are definitely more clearly conveyed in the vocal stylings of this song than in that of One Foot in Front of the Other. Landlocked Blues is just so much more raw and beautifully imperfect than One Foot in Front of the Other, and that, to me, was exactly what the song needed to really drive the message home - the raw emotions and the imperfection. It's what makes the song what it is. Don't get me wrong, the one on SC50 is great, but it didn't do anything for me personally. The first time I heard One Foot in Front of the Other I was slightly depressed and I thought to myself "oh, what a sad song". The first time I heard Landlocked Blues, I cried like a baby. There was just so much more there to me - this version is just so much more open and honest. It doesn't need to be "perfect" in order to be...perfect. When I heard the trumpet solo, Taps, I got major goose bumps - and they didn't go away for the rest of the song. And Emmylou's voice?...gah, I can't take it. There's just too much that is deliciously wonderful in this song. I love it. |
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