| Vienna Teng – Recessional Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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("Debuting in 2005- first known performace 11Mar05. Vienna calls it a "reverse strip-tease song" - putting the clothes back on, if you will, starting from the end of the relationship going back to the beginning, before the relationship happened. The "reverse strip-tease" idea was how Sam Phillips described one of her own songs at a concert Vienna attended. During a Dec '06 Q&A session, Vienna said: There are about six different stories about how this song came about, and I think I've told them all at different shows... I started writing it after seeing Sam Phillips, who introduced one of her songs that night as a "reverse striptease." Around that time I was also infatuated with the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the way Michel Gondry played around with timelines and the selectiveness of memory. I also wanted to try writing a poem to set to music later --- something whose words might stand on their own if read on paper. And as always there's something of my own life in there, albeit distorted beyond recognition. ") |
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| Glass Animals – Youth Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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“Youth” "The idea for this one came from a story someone told me once. They were telling me about their child, and something awful had happened to them. She was crying—but at the same time the memories that they had from that previous life made her so happy—so she was also smiling. That combination of emotions kind of made me feel like my heart was being ripped apart but also optimistic in a weird way. She had found a way to see happiness in this awful thing that had happened to her. That combination of emotions is what this song is getting at. Have a look at this character’s website (http://dizzyoncaffeine.com/) , too." |
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