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| The Weepies – Orbiting Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I found the 2015 interview with Deb Talan referenced in my earlier comment. Here\'s an excerpt about "Orbiting":\r\n\r\n[I]t’s the band’s downhearted numbers that offer the most fodder for interpretation. One such song is “Orbiting” from 2008’s Hideaway, in which the song’s narrator confronts an anonymous subject: “You named me judge/the day that I was born/You asked too much/to fix what you had torn.” More than any other song in the band’s catalog, it will haunt you. When asked what it’s about, Deb starts to answer then freezes. After talking with her husband, she summons the courage to continue. “So, I’m a double-survivor now,” she says. “I survived cancer, and before that, I survived sexual abuse in my family.” She explains that a number of the songs she’s written throughout her career — including “Orbiting,” written for her mother — have contemplated this dark period in her life, one that all but destroyed her relationship with her family. (She hasn’t been in contact with them for 10 years.) |
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| The Weepies – Orbiting Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Seven years after @[truemidge:40852] offered this interpretation, Deb Talan confirmed the essence of it. In a 2021 piece on Deb (and the dissolution of The Weepies) in *Saratoga Living*, journalist Will Levith wrote, "Two years later [in 2015], during an interview I conducted with her for a *Refinery29* story about her band The Weepies’ latest album and her bout with cancer, she revealed for the first time publicly that she had been a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and for that reason, had been estranged from her family for a decade. All of that was captured in her song \'Orbiting.\'" |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Tiny Vessels Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Chalz:29349] (Coming late to this, I know!): I agree with your take. In particular, the opening two lines: "This is the moment that you know/That you told you loved her but you don't," suggest that before "this moment" he really thought he meant what he'd said. Also, "Wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking" pretty strongly indicates he wasn't just lying for sex. Finally, the "Tiny vessels..." verse talks about him "fading"—something was changing; he wasn't just lying from the start (except perhaps to the extent he was also lying to himself). |
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