| Brand New – 1996 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song seems to be about a girl who has a pretty much incurable disease, but is still fighting for her life. While her friends and family see the whole situation as pretty much hopeless, she has lasted longer than anyone thought possible... because of that, everyone is kinda living like she's already dead. Her fiance doesn't want to leave her on her deathbed, but he's fooling around with someone else, and Jesse (the narrator) already knows what prayers and song he's going to sing at her funeral. They've already been in mourning for so long they're emotionally exhausted and her friends just have to fake their sorrow. This makes Jesse feel incredibly guilty and believe that he doesn't deserve to go to heaven. It kind of reminds me of Pet Semetary, the part where the wife/mother is haunted by her sister who suffered from meningitis and how she prayed for her to finally die. |
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| Kings of Leon – Holy Roller Novocaine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I could never tell whether this song was seductive or threatening, it kind of toes the line between the two... Like when he tells her to submit to him and they make a joyful sound. But then the moon goes red... I thought maybe it was about a drug dealer and a female junkie. Maybe they're trading drugs for sex? |
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| Brand New – Luca Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this is another religious song, in keeping with the entire album, where Jesse is considering how his actions will be viewed in the eyes of God. First of all, the lyrics posted here are all wrong. [When I disappear, do you fear for the sister I took? When I disappear, it is clear I am up to no good I am drearily blunt, letting this bed wetting cosmonaut "Son, the last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got"] I this verse, Jesse is speaking to God. He is thinking of all the frivolous, meaningless sex he has had with women and how it must disappoint God. Then God responds that all this pointless sex will never fill the desire that is in his heart... probably suggesting only the love of God or a woman can fill that. (Of course, "sister" is not used in the familial sense, but the religious... as we are all brothers and sisters in God's eyes) ["So touch me or don't Just let me know Where you've been"] Here God is asking Jesse where he has been after having sex. This mirrors the questions he asks Adam and Eve after their original Sin of eating the fruit of knowledge before they were banished from Eden. Jesse refuses to "touch" Him because he feels ashamed in His presence (the same way Adam feels ashamed of his nakedness in God's eyes). ["So drop me a line with a hook and some raw bleeding bait (one, two, three, four) For I am uncaught and still swimming alone in the lake (five, six, seven, eight) Shimmering under a moon made in anger and angst Shimmering like a penny out of reach in the subway grate (Shimmering like a coin kept safe away, you'll never listen to anything)"] Jesse views himself as a hopeless case, living out of touch with God ("swimming alone in a lake"). He pleads with God to help him to return to the righteous path, though Jesse sees little hope in his redemption, because he "never listens to anything." ["We could leave it alone, I'm sure there's someone who knows Where you've been"] Obviously, in God's omnipotence knows the truth of every sin we all commit. He is someone who always knows "where you've been." ["You never worked well with our group Not with the faults we found So we fixed you with cement galoshes No one can save you now Unless you have friends among fish There'll still be no air to breathe You could drink up the entire ocean I'll still find someone to be everything we know that you'll never be"] In this line Jesse imagines his judgement at the gates of Heaven. His life of Sin is dissected and he is found unworthy. He is cast out of heaven down into the hopelessness of Hell. He uses the metaphor of Luca Brasi in the Godfather. In the book he is found to be a spy of sorts working for the Corleone family, and when Sollozzo finds out, Sollozzo murders Luca. Luca's body is dropped into the ocean with a pair of cement boots so he will sink. Then a dead fish is sent to the Corleone's as a message that he "sleeps with the fishes." This connection can also be drawn that perhaps Jesse views himself a monster of sorts. Luca is most certainly one: in the book, it is explained that Luca once impregnated an Irish whore and he killed the woman and had their newborn child thrown into a furnace. He is also the only man that Don Vito Corleone truly feared. He was believed by some to be a demon. |
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| Brand New – Fork and Knife Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that this song is about Jesse and his view's on the Second Coming of Christ. "We'll take it easy, tigers in a cage We're pacing on our pads, and waiting For the time to come in reverie Our lazy bones ache for our dowry" It sounds like it Jesse is talking urgently to Christ. He is telling him that while people are trying to be patient and await his return, people have grown tired and restless. "You can't hold on to the thrill So I hope you find your will to follow through What we invented, I am now ending Hold on to who you love We are dry and blown like dust since we were young What we invented, I am now ending" Here Jesse is saying that has been so long since Christ's first coming that many have begun to lose faith in Him. Many have fallen off the Christian path, so Jesse is hoping that Christ still intends to return and save us. When he says we are "blown like dust", he is saying the heart of man is weak and that, without a sign of His presence or guidance, people will lose faith and continue to fall away from Him. He will eventually pass into myth in our eyes, something that "we invented" in order to help comfort ourselves from the fear of our own mortality. "The closest thing we had to royalty A chance to break our parents' pattern We chose to keep our teenage tragedy In lieu of their romantic palette Play tender like a newborn baby would Play tender 'til the night is over I'm leaving you to nurture cherished wounds And care for it just like your lover, yeah" I'm not sure if I know what Jesse is saying in this verse... it would seem to me that acceptance into The Kingdom of Christ is "closest thing we have to royalty"... Their "parent's pattern" might mean their devout religious lifestyle... because it seems that Jesse and a girl ("We") decide to have sex ("teenage trajedy") instead of waiting for marriage like their parents did ("their romantic palette")... and each lose their virginity to each other ("playing tender like a newborn baby")... then Jesse leaves her the next day, with her praying and considering the consequences of their actions in the eyes of God ("nurse your cherished wounds"). "I know you're busy, but please won't you come visit me? You are an aimless ghost, you haunt your bag of bones The wolf messed with your vision, he is sitting in your kitchen while you sleep tonight He will eat your young and you will act surprised" Here it seems Jesse is speaking rather bitterly to Christ. He wonders, in a sarcastic tone, if He is just too busy to return to his children. It seems Jesse tries to insult Him into action by saying that His procrastination is due to "aimlessness" or some Devil ("The Wolf") trickery. Then Jesse wonders, if Christ waits much longer to return, how can He be surprised when He finds that His flock have abandoned Him? |
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