| The Chameleons – Inside Out Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[uberpsycho:52347] Yeah this is a great one. They had some power pop things that just never caught on to a wide audience. Going to see them at the end of the month. | |
| The Chameleons – Paradiso Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| All i know is that I painted the graffiti, "Paradisio, I know you lie" under a bridge when I was 19. | |
| Pilate – Barely Listening Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[monster36604:52346] IDK about the heroin. A paper tiger is something that seems fierce but is powerless. If they are describing themselves in that scenario it would make sense. I always just took the lyrics, "you don't pay now you have to pay later" as being about doing what you need to do now or else it blows out of controls. |
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| The Chameleons – The Fan and the Bellows Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Mark and Reg did a lot of acid. To me, This song has always about being so high that only the connection of intimacy is capable of easing you into a quasi-normal state of mind, but you don’t trust your relationship enough to give into that and it feeds the fire - the fan and the bellows - of the mania/desperation. | |
| Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song is named Blood Bank deliberately to make you think about blood. But what does that mean? Consanguinity: the blood that ties us to our brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers and more distantly. This is hinted at by the few lines in the beginning, "See look that's yours, stacked on top with your brother's See how they resemble one another." There is some socio-economic stuff here too. People get money for giving blood, and both he and his brother give there so they are not well-off, but that's more of a tone item than anything else. So this is the first time we hear, "I know it well" and this is the refrain that is repeated and becomes the constant by which we measure the changes. The slow march of time, maturity and depth of experience. The crux of the next part is the answer to the question, "Who is keeping the secret?" Contextual clues tell you its the girl, "But you know that its good girl 'Cos its running you with red." She is embarrassed (blushing red) and happy (know its good). So what would "fuck with her honor" but cause her to be blushing with happiness over a secret? Occam's razor would say that she is pregnant out of wedlock and is embarrassed by it but overwhelmed. This fits into the blood/consanguineous theme discussed above. So the next scene is they are stuck in the car, she has told him she is pregnant, and he is/was doing all the heavy lifting trying to get them unstuck and is now back in the car and she is showing her affection for him and they kiss. We know she has told him because the secret has changed from, "that secret you knew" to "that secret that we know." He goes on to say, "I'm in love with your honor" - that he does love her and knows this was not the best way to have a child. But then, the "I'm in love with your cheeks" says that he loves the idea of having a child that looks like her. The song ends with "what's that noise up the stairs babe" - referring to both her, his babe, and babe as a young child. Finally hearkening to memories of his own childhood and images of the future with his child "is that Christmas morning creaks." And I know it well |
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