| Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think the importance of this song is that (correct me if im wrong) but it is the only instrumental song by sparklehorse. Mark would often strip a song to a few instruments when trying to express a point or say something very heart-felt so the fact that this is a stand alone song without any lyrics says to me that this is a very important to Mark, as if he cannot put it into words, which is rare for such a talented artist. Anyway, the song itself is very classic sparklehorse style fading in and out to represent the passing of life just like time, every breath like the tic of a clock. Mark used this a lot as he would often spend time alone or laying in fields enjoying the sun and nature and all its gifts. The title of the song suggests to me some sort of coma like state, being trapped in the mountain miles away perhaps, or being away from civilization, either way i think the point of hibernation or a coma is expressed. I believe this is the point of the song as that would explain why the song fades in and out as the next breath or second of the song is not guaranteed, on hearing this song for the first time there is no knowing when the song will stop, again much like a patient in a coma heartbeat. A beautiful song, truly a gem and a masterpiece that could only be made by Mark, RIP and thanks for the journey. |
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| Sparklehorse – Sunshine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Mm, too right there brother, Mark's music is magical in an inspring and depressing manour, Daniel johnston and Mark both managed to achive it. Hope you are still listening as your post was a good few years ago. | |
| Sparklehorse – Saturday Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Saturday being an indefinate amount of time, (like tomorow). I find this song absolutley amazing and a true representation of Marks personality as it is like a joke. Lots of little sad but true jokes in Mark's music, for instance, "I knew this must of been a dream cause your mother would never let me in her house" It really puts a smile on my face and this is an absolute sparklehorse classic. | |
| Sparklehorse – Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Hmm, I think this song is different to all the rest, and judging by other comments you may want to read this all the way through cause its completly different to what you may think. I believe that this song is meant to be interprited as how Mark was feeling at the time of reccording. I think as with alot of his music the actual effects make up more of a picture than the lyrics. For instance, the changing of a old style reccord, the fading in and out of clarity i think is his way of depicting his "meh" mood towards rock style music on that day. By this I mean he couldent decide what he wanted to listen to/ make. Which he then manages to transmit that into a song. Which is where the beauty of this song is, he takes a feeling many artists find to prevent their work, known as writers block sometimes. And he manages to cover it so well using a familiar thing such as a radio which everyone can relate to, maybe not in the modern day but back before the current crap you would browse the airwaves deciding what to put on. Anyway im slightly digressing here. The lyrics are meant to be very simple as the focus is in the other features that compose the music. If you think about it as a film or if you where watching mark toying with a radio slumped on one arm it would look like this. Bored, (repetative drone in distance at start) Fed up, wants to do something (picks up guitar and starts playing) Dosent forfill what he wants (Not the same, not as interested, Its the in and out part on the radio) Decides, fuck it lets go whole hog. (radio picks up correctly, song plays fine for 2 min, gets louder) Enjoying it, but it ends, and he falls back into his prior bored/depressive state. (the drone back in at the end of the song again.) Now I believe this is what is really intended despite it maybe going to deep as it can be seen with other songs mark has made while he was with us. For example, "A ballad of a cold lost marble" This song is what i beleive to be Marks depiction of him trying to force a song out of his mind aggressivly to put on the album, aggresive, repetative, stuburn as it wont work and annoying. As all of these describe the sound in the song, it also works to a heart beat, or a raging pulse. This song then leads into Someday i will treat you good, once again we can hear the same style as this song and with the radio effects, but i beleive he may of been more fond of this song so he kept with it, and the lyrics are more descriptive so i think Mark felt it was important to elaberate on this song more than chaos of the galaxy/happy man. My final point is that the title gives it away, he has all the stress of the galaxy and he just wants to drop it all, rock out and get a lil crazy, as he does but it cant live forever and he is back into his previous problems again, but he was happy while it lasted. Thank you so much if you have read this far and i would very much appriciate some replys to this, maybe i went to deep but its all my interpritation. Thanks -Ben. NB: I'm 16 and I have dyslexia so sorry for any spelling mistakes. |
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| Sparklehorse – Morning Hollow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Anyone know why this song is not the last on the album. I feel it would of been perfect to end the album with, especialy with the long pause before the song. It's a wonderful life just dosent feel as good after it, this song is so great it cannot be folowed for quite some time after. Cant help but think Mark would of known this when producing the album considering the care he puts into the track listings. Any suggestions/Oppinions? Thanks. TL;DR : Why is this not the last track? |
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