| Alice Cooper – Wind-Up Toy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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My speakers are a bit iffy, and sometimes the one dedicated to treble tones dies out. What's freaky though, is that in all the times I've heard the song, I've heard the little boy, but this one time, I heard Alice without. I twiddled the speakers, and lo and behold, a child appears. My speakers have schizophrenia, clearly. But in all seriousness, I love it when you can easily separate two voices when they're of such tonal difference. Adds a really element. |
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| The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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First of all, this song really is about a cat running away. Running and forgetting, forever, which brings me to the metaphor that REALLY sends me into a crying wreck - Virtute is his strength, and anything else that someone has lost, with no chance of getting it back. Her owner, through years of apathy, just lost the strength to carry on - to 'sing the sound that he found for her', so without that effort, it, and she, left him, never to return, but it's also that because of him, he lost her - if that's not lost love, as well, I don't what is. The song works on the simple level for any animal owner that's lost a pet one way or another - this stupid, stupid creature, that barely understands what they are to you, that shits in your garden and pisses on your furniture, that you still inexplicably love like nothing else, is gone; that's a kick in gut. Then there's the lover, gone - basically the same thing; he failed to keep her close, so she left, and she's never coming back; we get the second kick. And then there's the fact that he, himself, beaten down by apathy, has just given up on bothering. The owner isn't dead, but he has simply stopped caring about himself, and that's our third kick. And that's why this song is the saddest one that I know. A simple song about a runaway cat. God. |
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