| Modest Mouse – Alone Down There Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I feel like this song is about somebody's inner struggle and conversations with themselves. The eerie atmosphere and way Isaac sings at the beginning, to me, seem like someone hearing voices or talking to themselves. I view it as a person's relationship between their mind and body. Sometimes our minds feel so detached it's like we're watching ourselves from outside our body. As the "flies gather" around this person-suggesting he is dying or being slowly broken- the mind is helpless to watch as the body decays and dies. Our bodies are always slowly getting older and wearing away, and there is nothing we can do to intervene. The mind pities the body and wishes it had the capabilities to help out, saying "I don't want you to be alone down there". Some people are so desperate to stop this process that they wish they could make a pact with the devil for eternal life or something of the sort. I may be looking a little deep in to this, but that's my two cents. |
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| Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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For me, I've always related this song to my own personal feelings of being stuck in a town and situation I hate. I think that the "deepest ocean/bottom of the sea" is this inescapable place that seems impossible to leave. It's the bottom of the ocean, where there is no sunlight or any outside influences to set you free. The "Your eyes, they turn me" is some person or some thing finally giving the person a wake up call and hope for a life outside of the ocean floor. For me, I always picture it as a woman who comes from "the surface" or lives at the bottom and tells him stories of life outside. He contemplates "Why should I stay here?", realizing that these people and this location will never fulfill his desires in life. He gives all his trust to her and decides to "follow where you lead". I think that the "phantoms" that she is "turning him on to" are the abandoned dreams that he once had hoped to achieve, but was held back by his own inhibitions. Her arrival has reawakened his determination and he is ready to "follow to the edge of the earth". "Everybody leaves, if they get the chance, and this is my chance" - I think that all of this person's past friends have already escaped long ago, while he has been left behind at the "bottom of the sea". This girl, whose eyes have reminded him of everything he lacks, is his last chance at escaping/being happy. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and he misses his last chance. Somebody outside force, or perhaps his personal fears, keeps him from making that jump to the other side. He lets her get away while he gets "eaten by the worms and weird fishes", which are the people who reside at the bottom of the sea. He now knows that it is only downhill from here, and that the only thing that will free him is the day when he finally loses everything and realizes how much time he has been wasting. "I'll hit the bottom and escape" tl;dr - It's about being trapped and then seeing a way out, only to let the opportunity slide by. |
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