| Okkervil River – It Was My Season Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I considered the possibility that this song was written from the female perspective but the fact that this record was billed as an autobiographical one and the fact that the narrator waits until the VERY last line to reveal the gender of the love interest in the song leads me to believe otherwise. Ambiguity in gender is rarely accidental (reference "The Bagman' Gambit" the Decemberists). | |
| Spoon – Advance Cassette Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite Spoon songs and these lyrics have haunted me since the first time I heard them. I agree with those above who suggest that Daniel is creating an extended metaphor tying the narrator with a cassette that's been tossed out on the highway. The title has always seemed to have a double-meaning to me. The first acknowledges a time when musicians might receive versions of their record to listen to before official release. Perhaps this song didn't make it on to the final record which means the "advance cassette" was the only version of it existed and it can never be recreated, not unlike a relationship. It suggests a paradigm shift too, an actual longing for the days of the advance cassette that are now lost to the past. This whole song is about longing for something that can't be retrieved. I think the second meaning, suggested above, uses the word "advance" like a verb instead of an adjective. Advance cassette or it's time to move along to the next track or, in this case, phase of one's life. I also love the desolation suggested by the lyric, "I've been out here for so long that I'm not sure how you ever wound me so tight." All of the original function has been destroyed by neglect. |
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