| St. Vincent – Digital Witness Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Media, television, and digital means consume all of your mind. They brainwash you, and suppress your consciousness. I think that all of the songs on St. Vincent's self-titled album are a commentary about the conditioned state of our advanced society. If the media consumes your mind, how can you question anymore? Why sleep if you're already sleeping when you're awake? The TV looks like just like a window- its a prism to view life with, but via synthetic means. It ends up distorting the world around us because we expect it to conform to the false reality we're immersed in. We've been sold so many things at this point- how do we buy ourselves back? You can gnash your teeth at it and sit down quietly because we've all become complacent, therefore we don't revolt against our suppression (which is all-consuming and ever present). You can witness it, but it's not possible to take action against it. Action would have dire consequences, but man must be freed from his prison of zeros and ones. |
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| Grizzly Bear – Deep Blue Sea Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Whether there is a "you" or a "me", we all return to the sea. I believe this song is about the inevitability of death. Every member of the narrator's family ends up receeding into the deep blue sea. But it's beautiful because the song has a serene and peaceful sound to it.... So maybe in death the family becomes reuinited. Who knows? |
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| St. Vincent – Prince Johnny Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It sounds like Prince Johnny is a pretentious, superfluous man preoccupied with his and everyone else's descendents. My guess is he's a wealthy and notable socialite given his life style. There are many illusions to him perceiving himself to be royalty. For example, he "holds court in bathroom stalls" and brags about all of the women or men that he conquered, who are always "sons of someone's". He extorted and then snorted a piece of the Berlin wall, which is ripe with historical significance. The Berlin wall was an important factor of the Cold War, but it didn't mean much to Prince Johnny, who put it up his nose along with the narrator (who has her doubts about him). The fact that Prince Johnny was capable of squandering a piece of the wall shows that he must be in a position of power. However, it seems like the narrator can see right through him. She knows that she has more meaning than what he sees in her. She even has more meaning that what her ex saw in her. This song ends on the note that the narrator is in a position of power over a man who is obsessed with it. However, both parties are desperately praying to be made into real people again, so perhaps wealth and power has gone to the narrators head as well after being with Prince Johnny. |
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