| Fever Ray – Dry and Dusty Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song I think is about two old married people who have walked together through life and stayed together the whole time> They have walked together through time, and they seem to be telling each other... They are.... Dry and Dusty but full of Love! Never leave me Walk close beside me Your hand my hand Fits so easy By the time when you have been married for 50 years all the major kinks have been worked through it become easy to walk together through life... No tomorrow Let us stop here We did some great things Didn't we? ... As they remember their time together they realize that even if there is no tomorrow... They had, and did some great things together. Dry and dusty I am a capsule of energy You speak softly We are capsules of energy Work as I've been told In return I get money ... he went to work.... Small feet in the hall .... she raised the kids.... And I long for every moment And they both long to go make and relive every moment of what they lived together... especially now that they realize that soon it will all end. So even though they are dry and dusty they lived and loved and walked hand in hand and enjoyed every moment and they will continue until one of them stops breathing..... With so much sadness in Karin's music this is like a beautiful look on the sunset of true Love. |
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| Fever Ray – Seven Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I so like this interpretation thanks | |
| Fever Ray – Stranger Than Kindness (Nick Cave cover) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think a step closer would reveal it's about prostitution... Lets just call a spade a spade... here is why I think so... "The gaunt fruit of passion Dies in the light Stranger than kindness Your sleeping hands journey They loiter Stranger than kindness You hold me so carelessly close Tell me I'm dirty I'm a stranger I'm a stranger I'm a stranger to kindness " If that isn't the epitome of the relationship of a prostitute and her john I do not know what is>>> and with that said I think this stanza is very telling..... You caress yourself And grind my soft cold bones below Your map of desire Burned in your flesh Even a fool can come A strange lit stair And find a rope hanging there Stranger than kindness This prostitute is so down and out she wishes she were dead! |
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| Fever Ray – Concrete Walls Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Again I am Native American so this may have a skewed my perception on the song. I live between concrete walls When I took her up she was so warm I live between concrete walls In my arms she was so warm The singer is going crazy in the city..... All he wants is to get out of the urban setting but if he leaves the city he will starve to death .. the city is like a bad relationship, it's hurting you but you just can not leave it cause in the Hummm Sex is good!... Eyes are open the mouth cries Haven't slept since summer Eyes are open the mouth cries Haven't slept since summer ... the singer can't sleep well, and the noise of the City is deafening, and so it feels like ages since the singer has slept... I live between concrete walls When I took her up she was so warm I live between concrete walls In my arms she was so warm Oh, how I try I leave the TV on and the radio Oh, how I try I leave the TV on and the radio I live between concrete walls When I took her up she was so warm I live between concrete walls In my arms she was so warm An Indian in the city most certainly will become a insomniac |
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| Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Maybe it's just because I saw the video first but I interpret it this way... Memory comes when memory's old I am never the first to know Following this stream up north Where do people like us float I think she feels forgotten.. will people even see her pain... There is room in my lap For bruises, asses, hand claps I will never disappear For forever I'll be here ...She been beaten and abused.. but it hasn't made her disappear... street people never disappear... Whispering Morning keep the streets empty For me ...The regulars can have the city all the want during the day... but night time the streets a empty and they belong to her and the street people!.... I'm lying down and eating snow ... sometimes that all a street person might have to eat... My fur is hot, my tongue is cold .. when it's hot there is no place to cool down, and when it's cold there is no place to warm up you are always uncomfortable.... On a bed of spider web I think of how to change myself ..... the place to sleep is as flimsy as a spider web, and it's at those times you actually begin to think about how to change and yet the more you try to think o a way out... the more trapped you feel yourself becomef... A lot of hope in one maintains There's no room for innocence So take me home before the storm Velvet walls will keep us warm ...The only hope she can find is in prostitution, and so out to the corner she goes. Whispering Morning keep the streets empty For me .... and silently she hopes that no one shows up.. no johns come to call... Uncover our heads and reveal our souls We were hungry before we were born .... so go ahead she says uncover my shame wag your finger is you want, reveal our darken bitter soul if you want... but remember..... we were hunger before we were ever born and not much has changed for the street person. |
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| Fever Ray – When I Grow Up Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Just my thoughts... When I grow up I want to be a forester Run through the moss on high heels That's what I'll do Throwing out boomerang Waiting for it to come back to me In the video you see Karin on a diving board with her back to the water to the pool and her father(shown looking disapproving later in the video) who is disapproving of her wild way(she is unkept and painted on and generally wild looking in the video), her hair hides her face demonstrating her shame of his disapproval. When I grow up I want to live near the sea Crab claws and bottles of rum That's what I'll have Staring at the seashell Waiting for it to embrace me Even in all that she is still moving closer towards him(though backwards) and closer to this pool (could she be talking about taking a plunge with the pool? Who knows why she put a pool in the video really, but I suspect it is about falling into despair and feeling like she is drowning)... I put my soul in what I do Last night I drew a funny man With dark eyes and a hanging tongue It goes way bad I never liked a sad look From someone who wants to be loved by you ... She turns back and tries to dance but it’s awkward and disjointed.... (is it because she is trying to march to the beat of her father’s drum no matter how awkward and uncomfortable it may feel. But it all turns bad... and she feels so sad because all she wants is to be loved by her father. And then she feels so sad that the look on her face is heartbreaking. I'm very good with plants When my friends are away They let me keep the soil moist On the seventh day I rest For a minute or two Then back on my feet and cry for you This part is the saddest for me..... she actually wipes tears from her eyes and it falls in a pool (did she cry the whole pool full? You've got cucumbers on your eyes Too much time spent on nothing Waiting for a moment to arise The face in the ceiling And arms too long I wait for him to catch me Waiting for you to embrace me .... then the sea of Pain and tears begins to boil and churn... and even then she is trying to dance to the beat of his drum to gain his approval.... but he still looks on with his disapproval and condemnation.... Through it all she is still waiting for him to embrace her... and he just lets her stand there all alone. |
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| Fever Ray – When I Grow Up Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I would love to see an interview with her on the meaning of her songs! | |
| Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ok here is my Interpretation of this song... Mind you I am Native American and my interpretation is based on the Video as well..... This will never end 'Cause I want more More, give me more Give me more This will never end Cause I want more More, give me more Give me more This reminds me so much or the European conquest of the Americas. The reality is the more we gave them... the more they asked from us. If I had a heart I could love you If I had a voice I would sing After the night when I wake up I'll see what tomorrow brings If I had a voice, I would sing We Cherokee's did everything we could to sue for peace we were peaceful to many of my people the Europeans seemed heartless, cold... and thoughtless about what the future could be if we all lived in peace. This is how we saw the Europeans... Dangling feet from window frame Will I ever ever reach the floor? More, give me more, give me more They were like children who never grew up. Crushed and filled with all I found Underneath and inside Just to come around More, give me more, give me more If I had a voice, I would sing This was how Europeaners tried to leave us. They wanted us totally dead like ghosts wiped out existence. But we are not dead... we are still here. We are survivors! |
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| Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I know the poem's influences are there... but I really believe this is talking more about a fear of entering the church or feeling like you can not come back to the church because mercy is not there for you. For me the velvet box sounds so much like a confessional. I think the father she speaks of is Her heavenly Father. |
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