| Joanna Newsom – In California Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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'And if you come and see me you'll upset the order You cannot come and see me for I set myself apart But when you come and see me in California You cross the border of my heart' I always felt this is a reference to fans/paparazzi that want to come find out where she lives and kind of invade her privacy. 'But there is another, who is a little older When I broke my bone, he carried me up from the riverside' I think this is a reference to her very natural childhood (growing up around such natural beauty) And the older one is maybe her brother who cared for her when she was once hurt as a child. |
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| Feist – Anti-Pioneer (When the Month Changes Numbers) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| A very depressed woman who gave up. Pioneers are creators, explorers. She gave up on moving foward and just stayed stagnant. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I don't believe this song is about abortion either. Well, maybe abort an aspect of oneself. I think that Baby Birch is a name the writer has given to an aspect of herself. "I will never know you, and at the back of what we've done, there is that knowledge of you" =not understanding that part of the self or why she has made certain choices. She goes back an forth saying "you" when addressing that part of the self and addressing an old lover. "There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boy...."= Poetic allusion to, what, I'm not sure. "...Skinned her quick. held her there kicking and mewing....And then she ran, as they're liable to do"= Self-sabotage, that aspect of the writer was an emotional runner. Basically my interpretation is: Self-sabotage/ Getting too close to someone emotionally and pulling away in fear/Abandoning that cowardly aspect of self which causes the self sabotage. Hope this made sense. |
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