| The Mountain Goats – Never Quite Free Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It took me quite a few listens to notice "solid sky and slate blue earth" is deliberately mixed up. Just to emphasize the dreaming, I guess. | |
| Dawes – Bear Witness Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't get a wedding or funeral vibe. I see it as an elderly man being visited in a nursing home (or similar) by his grown child. The child brought flowers and now the father wants to talk about the grandkids and missing his wife, the child's mother. He has nothing else happening in his life, so he watches the dog down the street and empathizes, because he too is just waiting around for the people he cares about to come visit. | |
| Okkervil River – Pop Lie Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I hear this as being about the superficial, oversimplified view of the world and particularly love that is presented in pop songs. This stuff is pushed on kids and teens, and only leads to bad life choices. Specifically, I point to the lines "So, here's the car seat, so cruelly weighted And here's the faces already faded At the end of the day When they just threw away the only good thing that they owned." The car seats are weighted with children, and it's cruel because the parents weren't ready. Their faces are faded at a young age. They threw away their childhood because they wanted to experience what was in the pop songs. But this is likely just me seeing my own views in the song. |
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| Okkervil River – Lido Pier Suicide Car Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Seems like it's one of those songs about record companies (every band/artist seems to have one eventually). The band was with Jagjaguwar ("We watched it shrink, that Jag, that Jaguar.") and this album was the first with ATO. The "crocodile" guy mistaken for a god, the one described in the last verse? Probably a record executive. Though I'm not sure which company. | |
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