| On An On – The Hunter Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is about the beckoning urge to let everything go and succumb to your life, for which "The hunter" is a metaphor. It's about the need we all feel to put our stale lives, flooded with lost love and forgotten dreams, behind, and fearlessly hit the open road, careless of where it would take us. And yet we all fear it - we are attached to our lives, we fear letting go. Chasing our dreams is not an easy task. But once one does it, it is then when one is truly free. And they'll never come back. |
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| Volcano Choir – Byegone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is about the end of a long relationship and the bitter realization that it's beyond resuscitation. Whilst some of the symbolism and allegory escapes me, I do see a recurring pattern of melancholy and nostalgia. The North is a big symbol of the end of something, but not a nice end - a northern end, one filled with coldness, loneliness and forlorn lodges. "The north end of monogamy" - the bitter end of a relationship. We also see allegories for frustration (screaming for others' hearts), emotional pain (ache inn; drinking) and bitterness over impossible yearnings (...hold the keys to a Cuban flight that you won't ever ride...) These lyrics are a bit tricky, but still not devoid of meaning to the thinking listener. |
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