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| Lord Huron – Until the Night Turns Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I liked the song at first for its rare positivity towards doom, about savoring the short night left for the song's persona. Rather fun. However, re-listening to it I noticed the lyric that "time was bending." The rest of the song focuses of the linear night ending in the sunrise. But if "time was bending," whether it means the future or past happening with the present night, the idea of the linear night "turning into the day" kind of... breaks. Going out on a limb here, but one idea this gave me (assuming the time-contradiction was intentional at all?) is that this 'final night' is what the rest of one's lifetime feels like. If time is bending, from now until your death is the same as your last few hours until your death. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Longest Wave Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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The Helena story seems to be the source of this track, but I feel that the song communicates the broader message even when you don't know about their relationship.
The gorgeous musical style of the refrain and the "just another," "time to call it a day," "last love," and the past-tense of "we came" all convey a feeling of finality, certainly felt by Keidis about the end of the relationship. However, there's also a prominent and somber awareness of the continuation of life into the future. Both sides of "maybe wrong/right" and "maybe last/first" have been felt by someone who has lived a long time and has a long time left to live. The "just another" can also be taken as a flag of continuity. That's why I really see this song by its release title and the recurring mention of the "wave." AK has felt this finality years before, but life cycles onward and once again he finds himself at just the same peak or trough as he felt before. The wave is life, and the song is, broadly, about the emotion of connecting with the feelings of your past and future selves. |
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[HammerFloyd:9486] I have a very different interpretation of the song, but yours is deep and excellent. Fantastic thoughts! |
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| Pink Floyd – One of These Days Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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While I realize that the lyric was aimed at the BBC reporter, I get a different message from the song. The violent, energetic groove of the music is life continuing, ever difficult and rough. The short lyric is said by either society or the album's persona, to the album's persona, as this difficult life does cut all living people down on one of their days (death). Roger's quote about the song poignantly representing society doesn't contradict this, though chances are he meant something else when he said it :P The song feels like a TL,DR for the whole album, expertly perched at the beginning of the story so the listener doesn't realize that the first time through. |
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