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| Yeasayer – Blue Paper Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"Blue paper" - some exams, college essay tests, etc., are written out in blue paper booklets. Maybe he's criticizing this person's inability to make a decision... she has to treat everything like a school assignment, overthinking and overanalyzing? |
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| Yeasayer – Devil and the Deed Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I have a hunch this one is about marriage; the singer alludes to some inter-racial or inter-cultural relationship that's not going to end in marriage because the male suitor is too xenophobic to commit to someone outside of his culture (won't speak the language, can't be mistaken for his whole clan). The singer defends his own decision to marry his lover - he could be accused of being from a backwards county, of living like it's years ago in the past (not realizing how it's harder to commit now than it was 40 years ago) but he doesn't care because he loves his beloved too much to "let her get out of his hands". The song title, "Devil and the Deed", this is a bit of a longshot - but marriage is a way of putting some kind of commitment between the Devil (loss of the loved one) and the deed (sex?) This whole interpretation feels like a bit of a longshot and maybe is more religious / moralistic than what the song intends. But if it's true, I have to say I have never heard a funkier defense of marriage. |
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| Yeasayer – No Bones Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song sounds to me like it's about the fear, and realization, of one's mortality (which makes the pun in the chorus so awesome - make no bones, as in, speaking plainly about something; and defleshing, skeletonizing, decomposing, etc.) The kind of opaque verses allude to feeling uncomfortable in one's body; and "Suppose it's the right time" sounds like kind of a tossed-off, nonchalant, but underneath it all quite frightened and confused acknowledgment that there's no choosing the right time for death. The tone of the music kind of suits such a morbid interpretation though doesn't confirm it. |
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