| Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Andrew Bird is pretty obviously a little autistic himself. And has a tic of jerking his head to the left. Often times (presumably because this would interfere with playing the violin) you can see him transfer it down his body as a little wave of tension that ends in him shaking his left foot. | |
| Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Huh. So many complex interpretations. I think Andrew Bird is just a but mystified by the goth and kink scenes and is expressing that. Most of the time I don't think his songs have narrative meanings much. He is obviously a little autistic and is stringing words together in a pretty autistic way. They create an interesting taste in the mouth. |
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| Devotchka – Queen of the Surface Streets Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Eeh, not riding the subway, or working in a rock quarry, but working BUILDING the subway. He's a tunnel-worker, he goes underground and works all day in the dark while thinking of this woman: "...when the lids come down, you're all I see." "...cast my pearls at the unpaved street..." isn't about giving his 'pearls' (money) to her, but about how he's spending his life (his pearls) doing this backbreaking and boring work. She's The Queen of All The Surface Streets because she's what his life is about when he's not working underground. And the surface is, while he's down underground, a sort of fairyland, another realm. I think it's presumptuous to suppose that she's a prostitute, rather than that he simply loves her and wants to give her things and appreciates her attention. This song has, I think, a strong subtext. It follows the Spanish (Arabic influenced) tradition of a love song that is ostensibly about romantic love between a man and a woman but is also about a man's love and longing for God -- the day of labouring being the work and pain of living, followed by "I emerge from the darkness and there You stand." |
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