| Morrissey – Suedehead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Another way to understand the song is as an ironic, sarcastic response to what Morrissey felt were deliberate and sensational misrepresentations of his life and music in magazines and newspapers. The romantic or sexual relationship referenced in the lyrics is a figurative vehicle for the relationship between artist and modern media. (A "lay" is the "good time" that dolts like Piers Morgan presumably had as they relished in making hash over invented and hyperbolic take-downs of Moz.) And it isn't necessarily a faceless, vague notion of "media," as Morrissey relates many stories of dissatisfaction and fallings-out with people at Rough Trade, Sire, and obviously with band-mates, producers, etc, as well as his long-running torment at the hands of music journalists. | |
| Iron & Wine – Tree by the River Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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A very new take on the "we used to be lovers, now we're strangers" song genre. Or the "road not taken" tradition. What SB captures that no one else has is that bemusing set of feelings when you realize, as a parent, that your daughter will soon become one of those ethereal creatures that other kids will seek intimacy with, and that most seekers will fail at this, like he did "when we were seventeen" and Mary Anne was, awkwardly, "happy for me." It's a richly observed irony that in adolescence we expend so much of our soul for intimacy and rarely get it, but to a child you just about automatically "mean the world." |
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| The Replacements – Here Comes A Regular Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is such a fantastic line. It captures more purely or perfectly than any of the others lines what the song is about, or expresses. I like your plot-based reading, which definitely works. But I prefer to read "I used to live at home, now I stay at the house" as a shift in attitude, not in place. It isn't that he's changed residences, but that his life has worsened somehow (can't make a living, can't find enjoyment, drinking too much) and consequently what was his "home" has become merely a "house." |
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