| Grateful Dead – Brokedown Palace Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Yeah, death for sure but as much about being in a better place and trying to describe the beauty in Living Nature or God's universe (either preferences of yours is fine with me) and I might add might be a hidden suicide note for Jeff Buckley. | |
| The National – Hard to Find Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Just gives me the feeling like he is staring at the stars and pondering lost friendship or love in denial about some things and feeling regret. He wonders if she has looked at the same sky as her and when and where she was and how she felt and if she was think along similar terms or whether she was only stringing him along during all the great times they had together. | |
| The National – Slipping Husband Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| One last thought: "Dear we better get a drink in you before you start to bore us" it doesn't seem right that he goes from being introspective about himself the entire time to someone else and so my other guess is that the voice is in the third person of his wife somehow insisting or suggesting that he drink as they have guests over and he is wrapped up in his own mind and absent in front of all of "her?" guests? *shrug* | |
| The National – Slipping Husband Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| So to tie it all together, Matt is tired but his head won't stop, he is projecting his own thoughts into hypothetical ghosts of men (all of the most important people in new york) who are all attracted to his love, instead of recording their words to her, he records his projected motive into them, "Dear we better get a drink in you, before we start to bore us!" | |
| The National – Slipping Husband Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the following almost goes without saying and makes a good prelude to my previous thoughts. My thoughts on all of Matt's lyrics are that he was lying when he said he makes them all up in fairy tales, even though he gives an incredible introspective visual analog on how they were evoked. He is obviously cursed with having a big heart, or more precisely a heavy heart, or in scientific terms way too much emotionally enhanced memories bordering on what would seem obsessions of love, but are, rather, introspective processing of the pain found in a creative heart, constantly wanting to do joins on events that won't even be related next week so as to form the perfectly symmetrical and projected self and environment. Especially those few female ghosts he's emotionally responsible for! One of the side effects of all of this insidious and yet perfectly innocent thought evokes the universally conceptual congruency in all of the beautiful analogs woven throughout the most beautiful interpretations we all end up arriving at while listening but also being emotionally receptive to words of song while watching our own memories roll on by. |
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| The National – Slipping Husband Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Matt is known for being a great lyricist more than even his signature baritone voice. Many of his songs (IMHO) have introspection woven into the heart of the song, like this one, or Lucky You (for starters) where he's having the parenthetical thought conversation with his other half in the mirror. We all say, "How can you look at yourself in the mirror?!" That's because for many people it brings about the introspective conscious talking to the thoughtless mechanical selfish part in us all, and being critical, beating yourself up so to speak. I have been accused of being introspective to a fault spending days inside my head with the ghosts of the woman I love. I think the ghost he loves to summon is just this: a phenomena created in love without as much trust as the introspective mind would like, or generalized fear and depression nagging at the seems of your conscious, where you have a tendency to project your fears into a hypothetical characteristic of her action, or words or even how she looked at you. Beautiful women are infamous for having issues bordering pathological, hot cold, magic thoughts and looks, Matt realizes having a beautiful woman means he has to do more orbiting around her and less around her ghost, she is apparently a reserved and not outgoing person (quiet love, good company) like him and apparently much of his relationship is a direct reflection exclusively of his ongoing engagement in it to the point of almost feeling pathological. IMHO Matt is probably a great dad, he is tough on himself and while he's always in his head running simulations built on projected outcomes of his (ghost) daughter based on their interactions and lack thereof brought about by the same paradox of being emotionally absent, introspectively building cognitive capital for oneself and those loved. *shrug* |
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