| Vampire Weekend – One (Blake's Got a New Face) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think with the 'new face' thing it's about how this guy, Blake, 'put on a new face' (or acted totally differently/put up a facade) in order to impress a girl. If that's the case, then "The precedent's already set now/You spend a week in old San Juan" is about either how he needed to take her on a fancy trip to keep up his facade, or that now since the relationship is lasting longer/getting more serious, he still needs to keep up the act because "the precedent's already set now". I'm not sure about the "Majesty's not overheard/Cryptographs can't stand the word" verse, though. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Giant Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's about how very privileged people can make a big deal out of their small problems. This is what I think of the chorus: Many people think that they're doing well in life because god likes them or whatever, or they've been blessed and all that; But then when it comes time to wonder why poor people are poor, they say that they're lazy and are just begging for money from the government. Not exactly sure on the 80% still agree. maybe it's just saying not many are on the side of the poor? Maybe thats the percentage of religious people who say that they do well because of god. I'm not sure, but there's more there. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Everlasting Arms Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm gonna go line by line for this one. I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself (He tried to accept religion and look to it for guidance, but it only made things worse) Oh I was made to live without you But I'm never going to understand, never understand Oh I was born to live without you But I'm never going to understand, never understand (he isn't the type to be religious, he doesn't understand the complexities of the world, even as explained by religion.) Hold me in your everlasting arms Looked up full of fear Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down (even though he doesn't believe, he shows that people sometimes just want there to be something protecting them) I thought it over and drew the curtain Leave me to my cell, leave me to my cell (using logic and reason, he couldn't believe) I hummed the Dies Irae, you played the Hallelujah Leave me to my cell, don't leave me in my cell (he feels that everyone else is calling god wonderful but him. He is wondering why any god would have the world so miserable, and how anyone could worship that god. (by the way, that means 'anger of the gods' in latin, for those who isn't know). but at the end, he doesn't want to be left all alone (without the community that religion provides, maybe?)) If you'd been made to serve a master, You'd be frightened by the open hand, Frightened by the hand Could I've been made to serve a master? Well I'm never going to understand, never understand (it's what a lot of religious people say, that people are frightened by the open hand. well, he's saying that it may be true, but he just can't get behind religion, and he knows he will probably never understand life or the meaning of it, anyways, and accepts it) Hold me in your everlasting arms Looked up full of fears Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down (he still sometimes feels a yearning for protection. Maybe life would be easier if he believed he was going to be saved someday) |
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| Vampire Weekend – Run Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think letsrun has it spot on. It always reminds me of that scene in The Catcher in the Rye where Holden asks Sally to run away with him and live in the forest and all that stuff. I think there are a lot of parallels between the motivation for that scene and for this song. |
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