| Great Northern – Warning Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about being in a friendship or some relationship, and keeping getting strange signals from the other person. You know something isn't right, and you're thinking more and more about it: "It is really something, I'm confused Saw it out my window in a dream of you" You're certain you know the other person well enough, and that it's nothing... "When you whisper, I can hear What you are thinking, thinking, my dear" But when you implore them to enlighten you ("lift me up"), you only get more bad signs ("this is a warning, calling, calling"). You keep trying to reassure yourself, telling yourself that nothing's there, but some part of you knows that something bad is coming in your relationship. When it does, it will be sudden, and it won't end well. "When you whisper, I'm confused Saw a sound, it came up from the ground" |
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| Great Northern – Snakes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| A very abstract song - I'd think it's probably about dealing with the fragility discovered in the course of "Fingers", emotional turmoil, and the trials of living life. You can endure, but after a while, you come to question why you're just standing still - if everything weren't confusing, perhaps you could finally move on. | |
| Great Northern – Fingers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think it's probably about attempting to transcend the hard feelings and the weight of everyday life that "Story" and "Houses" explored: "Transform our hearts into melody Remove the parts, then the tragedy" In doing so, we try to go beyond the human condition, but soon enough we find that we're bound to this world after all. "We've left our hands with no escape And our hearts are tied, tied to this weight If we let them go, will we break?" The song reaches its climax at the realization that we are small after all, and that our fragile transcendentalism can be destroyed by the merest shrug of the universe. "Come out with your fingers, tear us all down" The thread that unites the song is the whisper of "it's the weight of the world that we're onto, it's the weight of the world". By the end of the song, one realizes that we can't escape the world we live in with just grand thoughts, or even heartfelt melody - it's part of us, tied to our hearts. |
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| Great Northern – Houses Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Spyxed:5119] I think you've got it, it does seem to be about trying to hope in the face of a deteriorating friendship, and the numbness that follows from trying to disconnect. | |
| Great Northern – Story Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The song seems pretty straightforward in its message. In telling stories about our lives, we all want to seem better and more interesting than we really are. But in "tacking on lies", we blind ourselves to our own flaws and feed our egos; when our stories get out of control, we'll only end up wishing we'd "left it all alone". In the end, it's better to be honest than to hide our insecurities behind the stories we tell. | |
| Great Northern – Low Is A Height Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I see it as being about a powerful, influential artist or musician ("we write to millions") who is destroying themself and everyone around them in their excess ("you kill everyone around you"). They eventually choose to withdraw from the world and find their inner peace, to stop the cycle of self-destruction they've fallen into as they sought the edge of creativity ("save yourself from... from the ground you break, and the lives you take"). But after all that, they're uncomfortable with life out of the limelight ("don't like the space of..."), because they still feel its pull and the need to compete ("sit in the dark / still like the sun around you"). And finally the specter of their former excess just leaves them as almost a public joke, a reminder of their failure even as they move beyond it ("and you've just become a word"). |
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