| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's very ironic that the blood is described as being "red as strawberries in the summertime." This contrasts with the themes of winter and death that are present in the song. And "I turned round and there you go" implies that the singer is partly to blame for his friend's death. He was being negligent by turning his back on the pack and wasn't there for his friend when he needed him most badly. |
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| Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "Lighting up" can refer to lighting a cigarette. Robin Pecknold is a former smoker, so maybe the beginning references a time when he was considerably younger that he and someone else were smoking covertly ("tell nobody"). It sets the tone of the song as being nostalgic. Then again, maybe the lyrics are actually "lie down." | |
| Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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My interpretation of this part: "Dear shadow alive and well How can the body die? You tell me everything Anything true" is that the singer's shadow represents life ("alive and well" emphasizes this). When a body is cremated or interred in a coffin, it no longer casts a shadow, either because there's no light underground or because it just consists of ashes. The fact that he's asking his shadow indicates that he can only look to his own life experiences if he wants to grasp what death is like or what it means. In fact, our life experiences tell us "everything" we know to be true. I also think "how can the body die" has a different connotation than "why does the body die?"; he's not looking for some reason, he literally finds death incomprehensible and has no way of understanding what completely losing consciousness is like. The wanderers the singer refers to may refer to dead people, especially considering they'll be "following" the dead guy. When the singer asks where they go, he's asking what the "final destination" of living beings is. Also, maybe the singer is turning himself into a demon, i.e. tormenting himself, by living a solitary life with no one "dear to [him]." Nobody in the town knows him, and he realizes that one day he will have lost his chance to ever be known; Jesse (the dead guy, presumably) has been completely forgotten by everyone but the singer and represents this fact. Anyway, it's interesting that everything in this song takes place in the mornings. Mornings represent beginnings, whereas death represents an ending. The words "morning" and "die/death" each appear three times, so at face value the song is no more about endings than it is about beginnings (maybe I'm looking too far into the song, though…). |
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