| Joanna Newsom – No Provenance Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think that the song is about the narrator(who is not necessarily Joanna Newsom) being shielded from the outside world( which would explain why the lyric "in your arms" is repeated so many times). The song starts out with "I have died happy and lived to tell the tail to you" which could mean I lived a good life (by being protected from danger) and am ready to share it (the "tail" is the song). They(the narrator and someone else, possibly the one who is protecting her) start out by "spinning gold clear out of straw" which I'm not quite sure the meaning for is. Then it says "and when our bales of bullion were stored you burned me like a barn, I burned safe and warm in your arms" like I said, the line "in your arms" could be him protecting her. Later on she mentions the "Big return". This could be wrong but I've always thought of this as being her returning to the outside world without anyone to help or protect her when she is faced with danger. This would make sense because it says she is afraid of it. Next it says "there is a certain conversation lost, and that loss has incurred" this "conversation" could be Him telling her that it's time for her to be on her own. She ignores it and it becomes lost but as it is brought up again she has trouble pushing it away. As for the horse I think that instead of it being an "actual horse" I think it was meant to be a part of her that she had forgotten about. "Poor old dirty little dog sized horse" this could mean that since this part of her was forgotten for so long that it had started to become weak and fade away. Although at one point I think she has suddenly remembered the part of her and doesn't know why. "Anyhow she did not neigh, I do not know what drew our eyes to hers" the "horse" did not "neigh" meaning that she did not express this side of herself and is confused about why she's thinking about it. I'm not sure about the rest of the song but that's my interpretation for the first part. Hope it made some sense. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Sprout and the Bean Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've always thought that the "sprout and the bean" was the difference between a friendship and a relationship. "I slept all day I woke distaste And I railed And I raved At the difference; Between, the sprout and the bean" I've always underestimated the difference between a friendship and relationship. "It is a golden ring; It is a twisted string And you can ask the counselor; And you can ask the king; And they'll say the same thing, And it's a funny thing" I think the golden ring goes with the king because every king has a gold ring that is just a piece of and is not that significant, or something they don't think about much. I think this relates to how you don't think about friendship being anything more, until there's an opportunity for that friendship to become a relationship. "Should we go outside; Should we go outside Should we brake some bread Are y'interested" I think this is her asking if he want to it to be a relationship |
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