| Mark Kozelek – Find me, Ruben Olivares Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I first came across this on the Shanti Project benefit disc back in the late 90s. At the time I think it was that Mark couldn't release new music due to contractual disputes, and it has always struck me as a lament for a friend who jas passed, one you knew when you were young and still not fully formed. It reminds me so vividly of my friend Paul who died young as the result of an accidental overdose. In the months and years since his passing I have found the world coldly still goes on, as big and expansive as it ever was- and yet I have also found the love I had for him undiminished, if anything, it has grown and keeps up with that growth of the world. That's what this song says to me and until the day I finally have the words to write the song he deserves, there is this one. Simple, yet big as a mountain. | |
| Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I love this song. It forever changed how I think about music and sound, and it was presented to me as a radio only promo disc by a dear friend who passed suddenly several years ago and I still think about daily. The time we have with one another is precious. I think there's a lot of truth in these comments or at least in the few pages I read, but I want to mention something. It *is* from the female perspective, but also alludes to men being in similar straits('not alone on the diamond sea'), and likewise, both are mentioned as having mirrors, which I see as presenting the reflection of the other that we show them, claiming it as our self in order to gain acceptance. Except if both are doing it, what we show each other migrates further and further away from who we truly are in endless repetition until we are so far removed we no longer remember. So the mirror steals your soul. You nearly knew yourself before you engaged in this, and will never understand how close you came until you realize it's lost to you forever. But the danger is not just in the maze of endless reflections that is a relationship built this way, but that eventually, as we try to further understand each other, the mirrors will crack, and then shatter. The diamond sea is the wasteland of countless shards of mirrors, which will never be the same, and while those wandering the diamond sea can finally see each other for who they really are, they no longer have any connection to those they came with and have no idea how to relate to them or to anyone else, and so out on the diamond sea, no longer able to manage what they show to others, they 'fall in love' over and over again with anyone they momentarily seem to connect with. I didn't hit each lyric, but I hope that's clear enough- it's only my impression after all. |
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| The Front Bottoms – Au Revoir Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I dunno about rock tour, but I think this is cleverer(and less literal) than it seems at first read and the key is the rock and roll section. Essentially, he says au revoir, I bet you don't even know what that means, and she mistakes him thinking he's saying she doesn't understand the language and then makes fun of him, mimicing what she thinks he was doing, saying adios, I bet you think I don't know what that means. Then he launches into the key, rock and roll etc etc. Which to me says there is a fundamental thing that music means to me that you don't understand. By the same token, she doesn't understand that saying au revoir is about the pain of leaving, the gulf of lack of understanding and not the difference in language. Perhaps I think this because there are people in my life where my relationships with them have fit this perfectly. They don't now and never will understand what I mean, no matter how I shout it. These relationships could be saved in theory, but the assumptions of the others that my lamentations are instead snarky jokes at their expense indicates exactly how they see the world, and why they are unable to sustain any relationship, with me or otherwise. |
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