| MGMT – An Orphan of Fortune Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A lot of people tend to lean towards an interpretation of MGMT's lyrics as a description of a drug induced psychedelic event. If you really look at the direction they've been moving and listen to their descriptions of how they formed their albums and the stresses they were under, viewing these lyrics as a piece of a larger composition becomes a much more viable option for interpretation, and even lends itself to the idea that these boys are legitimate artists. I go the artist route. I love the interpretation of being on a doomed path, suggested earlier. The music dirges by, enveloping the listener with echoes of intersecting voices. A loud whine obscures a simple chord progression, as a melodica rings in the distance. Enveloping waves of sound grow, disorienting the listener. You are inside this worn, chewed and shrieking mind, and it is being subjected to this ringing bell, coming in waves, morning, noon and night. " And I can't get down," is sung as the music changes, and the chord progression that was once obscured moves along to a nice dance beat, and the melodica is given center stage. It's not that he's too high, as if down was implying sobriety. Getting down is a colloquialism for enjoying yourself. He is the melancholic melodica playing sweetly over the dance beat. He ends the song seeming weary about a constant fight for something unachievable, resolving to relinquish his existence, to erode into twilight, if he were to ever disapprove of the life he has chosen as the song slips away... But then it does some funky shit at the end, and it makes me think that the eroded corpse of the narrator kicks back into life a little bit.... Like, stay tuned for LP 4. And I will. |
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| MGMT – There's Plenty of Girls in the Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Girls" is a metaphor for your goals. What you want out of life. It's almost like advice for an artist. Each stanza teaches a little lesson. Surgeons are the one's who seem like they got it together, but never reach perfection. The lifeguard shows that it's not your looks or money or whatever that makes you, it's whatever you want it to be. The painter teaches about accepting mistakes you make and rolling with them and getting over it. And the bartender admits that you shouldn't try to be perfect. Just make it your message short, simple, and sweet. You'll always have another opportunity. Another rainbow. Just around the river bend. It's pretty self explanatory but I explained it anyways. |
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