| Foster the People – Houdini Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| if they were played on the same key, yes they would share similar chords but not the same progression. Don't try and insult the intelligence of someone who is familiar with music and don't try and try and take advantage of the ignorance of people who aren't. Ain't nobody got time for a know-it-all who doesn't actually know-it-all. | |
| James Vincent McMorrow – Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song is about a relationship that is always ending and beginning...and ending, sung from the perspective of the lover who is always being hurt by their partner leaving. The first stanza sets the foreground of the song. The imagery about snow, and being "stuck out here for days" suggests the setting is in a remote cabin. This symbolises, to me, the desperate desire of the singer to keep their relationship intact, or more like a misery type situation where no-one can escape. He desperately wants her to stay, even to the point of forcing her her stay through the harsh nature of the wilderness around them. The first chorus suggests she always remains aloof, even when they're together. She lies Sleeping in the sun, she gives chase and so they run: obviously meaning she is always leaving him, him chasing her and thereafter continue a recurring "on-off" theme. The singer noting how taxing this recurring theme is, "nothing breaks your stride like what's become". the piling up high of wood, the time resting on the stairs represents to me the intention of preparing to make it through the winter season, and staying it out. However the window out symbolises her escape from the cabin, from the relationship, allowing his pain, allowing the "cool air" to seap in. "And so we go" signals the whole beginning of the cycle again. The second chorus begins with the line "my one (my only one), lied twice to keep me on", outlines how she tells him she loves him [first[ to begin their relationship again, and that she won't leave him this time [second]. But then the end half of that chorus changes in tone, it's almost as if he knows this pattern will keep repeating, yet he he still alows it. He knows she will keep leaving, "[giving] chase", and that they will both stick to their patterns [still we sung]. To me, in the end, he realises that he's got to stop trying to hold on to their relationship and keep returning to their cabin and sticking out the winter. The slow realisation that he has to leave and move onto warmer climates and greener pastures "the slow migration south, it's not to be denied". I think in the end he knows he's got to move on, and that eventually he will...maybe this time he will break it off, maybe he won't. |
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