| Blind Pilot – Poor Boy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I actually interpret this more as being about the baby dying rather than the wife. "The rhythm you know" reminds me of watching the heartbeat on the monitor of the image of the baby in utero. Thinking back a year would be to thinking back before the pregnancy started. And "go buy the flowers you'll leave on its grave" would make sense if they chose not to know the gender ahead of time. Actually just had an epiphany moment. The song makes some sense if read from the perspective of the dying baby, asking the husband, aka the poor boy, the guy who would have been the father, to let him/her go. Just a thought... |
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| Blind Pilot – Three Rounds And A Sound Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[yellowbird86:10253] The one thing I didn't understand about this song is what "3 rounds and a sound" meant, which is the TITLE, so that's awesome to have it explained. | |
| Blind Pilot – Two Towns From Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think "the world living in the half you cannot see" could refer both to the ocean (as opposed to the land) and the world of sleep/dreams (as opposed to waking life). Lovely little metaphor, gives context to all the ocean imagery. | |
| Bob Dylan – It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I'm always surprised how complicated people's interpretations get - bringing in Dylan's life, his place in the music scene, or grand philosophical implications of particular phrases - when I think the basics of this song are really simple and straightforward. The imagery is there largely to set the mood (Dylan was a master at this) but I think it's clear that the song is addressed to someone who just went through a major break-up, encouraging her to move on with her life: "it's all over now, baby blue." The give-away lines for me are: "the lover who just walked out your door / has taken all his blankets from the floor." He slept on the floor last night (not in her bed) and he just now left for good, leaving her with a sense of vertigo at the sudden changes. "The carpet, too, is moving under you" means to communicate this feeling that her life is changing too, whether she likes it or not. (feels like she's staying still and the world is moving around her rather than her moving through it) I also interpret the vagabond to be herself, or more specifically her immediate future self - rapping at her door, wearing the same clothes, but now homeless. This is why it's relevant that the highway is for gamblers and she better use her sense, and needs to grab whatever she needs to take with her. "Orphan with his gun" conveys a sense of irreplaceable loss and implies responsibility for it as well, fitting for a break-up. I like what another commenter said about "like a fire in the sun" being like "like a drop in the ocean"; i.e., insignificant, but also conveying the intensity of the emotion. Pretty brilliant. Less clear about the empty-handed painter drawing crazy patterns on the sheets, but I think it sets the scene in her bedroom, after the lover has left, staring at sheets like canvas, imagining directions her life could go in, and coming up with nothing that makes sense - totally at loss about what comes next. "The sky folding under you" is also just another beautiful image to convey how the world is upside down and collapsing. The seasick sailors and reindeer armies are also give a vague sense of great effort expended with no result, giving up and packing it in. Hope that makes sense. I guess I should also mention that it doesn't have to be a woman that the song is addressed to, that's just my assumption. I think it's basically a break-up song, but a really good, powerfully written break-up song, and written from the perspective of a compassionate friend, giving hard but much needed advice to the person involved. |
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