| Andy Shauf – Martha Sways Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think the protagonist is an old man that lost his wife years ago and is drifting in and out of lucidity. He remembers his dear Martha as he hears the old lovesong that is playing either through the rest home speakers or just through the soundtrack in his foggy mind. He remembers his love for her and being an old gentleman, his rugged passions she stirred in him as "the devil takes control". He is speaking to his caregiver that reminds him of her as she is simply stabilizing him while getting him ready for another night that he longs for her and his passed life. He drifts into a wonderful night he spent with her, tipsy on drink, dance and love. He had everything he could desire right then, enough to "want to die" in his memory so he didn't face the loss of her he can't contemplate. So he allows himself to fall deeper into his memory as they "Dance dance to the radio While the devil takes control". He falls deeper and deeper into his beautiful Martha's arms until there is nothing left of his aching, frail body so close to death. He feels her so deeply as they spin and he "catches her hand" when "she smiles and laughs bringing me back" as once again she isn't there to hold onto. Aging and death suck, there's nothing good about them. Isaiah 25:8 "He will swallow up death forever, And the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. The reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, For Jehovah himself has spoken it." That's a promise. So is Revelation 21:3,4 |
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| Jim O'Rourke – Halfway to a Threeway Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[atomsplitter:23466] Great job! You got it! It's an amazing song, what an uncomfortably honest set of words. |
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| Lou Reed – The Kids Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Wow, what a song. I think that the point of the crying kids is overlooked. Obviously the mother has a rough history and created a lot of problems for herself, that is very sad and a continuous cycle of bad decisions and terrible circumstances. I feel empathy for her, but she is broken. I have heard the horror stories from these kids with druggy parents (my in-laws are very generous foster parents) and they are crying because their mother is too doped up to respond. We never hear mom replying to them because she is either in a drugged out trance or left them at home to fend for themselves. Maybe they are crying from burning themselves while cooking up meth for their parents (true story) or they are starving and covered in their own filth because their parents are denying them food for crying, or they aren't feeding them because they spent all the money on drugs (another true story). There are children surviving from garbage cans because their craphole parents can't keep off of dope, but keep popping out kids because of their self centered lifestyle. Lou was a genius at observing people and seeing what was tearing them apart, however, from many interviews he admits that he was not supportive of their behavior, he just recognized that they were in it and had feelings too. It is terrible that these parents like the mother in his story can't get out of their problems because of addiction or being abused or whatever, but why do they keep reproducing just to ruin their children's lives? Lou also makes a phenomenal point in the song when they take the sobbing kids away. It goes quiet. She wants to be a good mother, she wants to fix her life, so now maybe taking her kids and protecting them will motivate her to do so. Lou Reed was a genius musician, but even more he was extremely empathetic and saw both sides of the story in peoples live that most people turn away from. Drugs suck! Abusing children sucks worse! At least the children will be given attention, fed and (usually) not neglected as badly as they were. How sad. |
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