| The For Carnation – Grace Beneath the Pines Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I don't know the real meaning of this song, but this song is both incredibly haunting and beautiful. Hasn't lost its magic since I first heard it in the mid-'90s. It feels like it tells a story about someone being very depressed that someone is leaving and the song starts off recalling the past, which was happy and dreamy and heavenly, but then the second part of the song switches back to the present where the other person sounds like they are leaving for a big ("dangerous") city like New York, and maybe leaving a relationship with the person telling the story, making them very lonely and heartbroken. Big juxtaposition from te starting of the song. Plus I love how they put "millionaire's sons" on the list of horrible things. I also can't belive the song is over seven minutes long, feels like three minutes... |
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| Ween – Hey There Fancypants Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song's super-super-happy sound is brilliantly juxtaposed by its lyrics, which are in fact very crushingly depressing. This song is about being a performer on stage, and being sick of performing for the crowd, and feeling like a 'dancing monkey' of sorts, you know? Like, "Hey there fancy pants, entertain us! We're broken parts, we need to be fixed by you!" ...But what about how the performer feels or what he/she is going through? So sounds like Gene was really depressed and probably had a hard time being in the band at this time. He was being super snarky with this song, laying it all out, telling everyone that he is feeling like a dancing spectacle and is very lonely/hollow inside, drinking alone after the performance, etc. |
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