| Joanna Newsom – Occident Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The capitalization and punctuation are interesting. Each time "Long-life" and "Slow-heart" are referenced, they are capitalized and hyphenated, as if they are the proper names of the two people in the relationship. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Occident Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Long life, show your face Slow heart, curb your taste Smoke me out of my hiding place Long life, state your case This song, and particularly this stanza, seems to be a meditation on (and conversation about) long-term relationships: finding reasons to stick it out through tough or negative times, taking a long-view of the relationship in the context of a whole life, fighting against the impulse towards change, movement and newness. |
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