| DIIV – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To me, it means that I won't find my own place in society until I leave everything that I've ever known: my parents, friends, my home. This is one home, but there is another that exists, that I must go and find. | |
| The Antlers – I Don't Want Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To understand the song I Don't Want Love, you need to have context from The Antler's previous album Hospice. In Hospice, Peter Silberman relates a narrative of a hospice worker who falls in love with one of his patients: a woman dying of cancer. The woman, who is unable to accept her early death, and feels that her life has been unjustly and infinitely more difficult than others, throws all her hatred and negative emotion upon him. The hospice worker, loving her, willingly acts as her emotional punching bag until her death. In his interviews, Peter Silberman essentially revealed that the narrative was autiobiographical: he was the hospice worker. So now, if you look at this album as the follow-up to Hospice, you'll realize that after his previous emotionally abusive relationship, he naturally fears entering another one: and so the song "I Don't Want Love" I see song as cute, and having a playful tone. This woman is obviously attracted to Peter, but he's resistant to falling in love. One night, there's a hangover and he ends up sleeping with her "We wake up with pounding heads/Bruised down below", and his immediate response is to once again become resistant "I should have built better walls/Or slept in my own clothes". For those of you who haven't listened to Hospice, please do. It has such strong negative emotion, that it will, without a doubt bring you to tears. I initially hated the extent of negative emotion, but I've come to see it as beautiful because it teaches of the reality of life, and has phenomenal poetry. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Hannah Hunt Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Beyond the relationship, I think the lyrics seem to indicate a distrust for things that are strictly American. Like the U.S. dollar and the New York Times. Maybe the song has something to do with living independently from the mainstream of things, and creating a path independent from a culture. | |
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