| Indigo Girls – Dirt and Dead Ends Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song definitely paints the pros and cons of living in a trailer park. The artist opens with talking about a longtime friend getting busted for meth abuse when she had no idea what he was going through. She appears to have known about the wife though, and she took care of his dog for him. He used to do light work for her and she'd pay him for it. She wonders how he went dark, because she thought they were both fine and fighting a war against the world together. They were keeping urbanization away from their neighborhood and proudly so, and then he folds underneath her and she's fighting alone. They lose that fight in the end, likely because of this. "We went into hibernation" I believe is when the meth thing all goes down and he's in jail and she's trying to pull things together for him, and they were in hibernation from the urbanization fight. And when the dust settles and she "comes up for air," the fight is over. |
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| Indigo Girls – Deconstruction Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song opens up with an image of a fight between a couple that instead of ending in pain, just quietness. They lay in silence, listening to the garbage truck and thinking about picking and choosing in their own lives. This leads into the next verse of thinking, where she thinks everyone picks and chooses what their beliefs and values are, and those interpretations of life gives them ammunition against others "quiver and arrows." She talks about that ammunition keeping the divide between people wide because of it closes, we will see the "smallness of our deconstruction of love," where we basically squabble over what we all agree on, which is how to love one another. |
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| Indigo Girls – Dairy Queen Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The artist is in a pretty negative relationship and appears to excuse some pretty bad behavior on account of the badness she sees in herself. The song takes place after this has been going on for a while, and everything she's excusing is starting to take its toll. She only expected it to be a short while, and suddenly years and years have passed "Funny how you lose one day"/"And a lifetime slips away". "I take it in stride, I know I had mine" is the artist acknowledging her own bad behavior. She's "had her moments" as well. And the end, she's talking about how the bond endures, despite the both of them. She sees their faith to one another as what sets them free from their pride, "Having everything to prove." |
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| Indigo Girls – All the Way Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song always hit close to home to me! It's definitely one of their most straight-forward and easy to understand lyrics, but it paints such a vivid and accurate visual for the situation. Even at the end, when you see the passion has simmered down into a warm, rich love, you can still see how much they want one another and how much they've bonded. It's a very sweet song about the rare situation of explosive passion not ending badly. |
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| Indigo Girls – All That We Let In Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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First, thanks for correcting the lyrics! To me, the title of the song means "We are better/richer people by letting ourselves hurt for our own pain and for others." All that we let bother us, make us more present in the world around us. The rest of the song is fairly straightforward, talking about how death is significant and inevitable, and it's okay to hurt for them. It's okay to be soft. "Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up" is talking about hurting ourselves along the way, and it's okay to hurt and grieve for yourself too. The artist disagrees that all this rushing and progress is really forward-progress and doesn't see evidence of it. She points to parts of our world that she thinks are still regressive, like our political and religious powers. In the end, it's the love in our lives and the pain in our lives that makes those lives rich. |
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| Indigo Girls – Come On Home Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is all just my opinion, I don't know the official artists' interpretation. The first paragraph, using analogies of war and speaking of "disarming" the singer while arming her partner, makes it clear the artist considers this to be a battle for her partner and not for her. But the next paragraph starts in about what she brings to the battle, which appears to be tidiness and resolve. The Last Supper in the Bible was an emotional affair but in the end, the decision could not be moved and Jesus' disciples stopped arguing and just supported Jesus. "The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own" is a metaphor for her partner having no control over their life and direction, and then the artist points out what actually controls her partner: "It's just the forces of your past you've fought before." "Come back here and shut the door"/"Don't you recognize them anymore?" Are cries for help from the artist for her partner to get out of that wagon and regain control, but the rest of the song paints an image of that desire ultimately being useless. "I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles" is another thing the artist lends to her partner for the fight, but shows later in the song that the action is not helping. In the second verse, she moves on to wonder whether this is all worth it. "A bag of silver for a box of nails" is another allusion to the Bible, when Judas trades in Jesus for silver and Jesus is subsequently nailed to the cross. It also ties into the general self-sacrificial nature of the song. "There is fire, there is lust"/"Some would trade it all for someone they could trust" is talking about cashing in passion for someone who is stable, who they can rely on. I could take that two ways. Either that's what the artist has done, traded in what she wants for someone she can predict. Or it's what her partner has done, trading in an equal passion for her for someone who will fight for him. In the end ("I realize that some things never are made right") the artist is resigned to her fate. She talks about stringing time together to illustrate time just mindlessly passing, and she's worried--or knows!--that it will amount to nothing. She gives her plea one more try, but it is calm as it fades into instrumentals and the song itself fades away, and we the listener knows that she was right. |
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