| WILD FLAG – Boom Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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When I first heard the song I thought the lyrics and the way Carrie sang sounded very *sexual* but after reading through the lyrics a couple of times it kind of feels like it's from the perspective of an audience member watching someone performing music on stage and just owning it. Carrie writes a bit in her memoir about being captivated by performers on stage when she was younger and wanting to be able to do that herself. So now the song kind of reminds me of someone watching a performer get completely into it on stage, dancing and moving to the music in a captivating way and the audience member getting drawn into it, watching and feeling everyone movement and wanting to move along to the song with them, and just admiring the performance so much??? "Move a little closer Don't be afraid If you want a pretty picture You better look away" This kind of reminds me of her being drawn into a messy chaotic performance - or perhaps addressing the audience as the performer. "Would you be an engine? I'd like to see you climb If you need help with your motor You can borrow mine" This verse could be interpreted as the audience member and performer sort of sharing the same high-energy and losing themselves in the music "It's getting so pathetic I'm so restrained I need it to be hectic And rearranged" This could relate back to Carrie as a teen and her strong desire to be over-the-top, admired, and losing herself in these hectic songs/performances |
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| Tegan and Sara – Like O, Like H Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I also think the song is about the difficulties Sara faced coming out to her mother. At first, she was 8 (growing nerves, growing pains) She always knew she was different to most girls but could have just been discovering how different she really was and coming to accept the fact that she was attracted to girls. She grew up in a very conservative neighbourhood so likely feared the reaction of the people around her, causing a lot of the anxiety she faced in her younger years. I watched an interview where Sara was talking about her first girlfriend which would have been around the "four plus a ten" mark and her mum thought she was only a friend but eventually caught on and confronted her (insensitively) so after this Sara was really angry, "swinging fists like nails in a board." I think the whole "S.O.S to my mother" could either be a literal cry for help and/or acceptance from her mother, or an ironic 'save our souls' plea as her mum originally didn't accept who she was and may have thought Sara needed her soul to be 'saved'. I think the "take the hinges off the door" could be referring to the way her mum initially reacted, like not trusting her to have any friends over without leaving the bedroom door open..I also think like O, like H in your gut could be referring again to her mums reaction, like an "oh", of surprise or disappointment and the reference to her gut describes how Sara felt unaccepted to the point of feeling sick, she felt it in her gut. "Six years till I'll be through", she's looking forward to adulthood where she feels she can finally be free to live her life the way she wants to. When she says "I was swinging back like a race to be sure" she refers to the hope she found in knowing that she couldn't help who she was, and she was probably started to embrace and accept who she really was after the whole experience. |
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