| The Decemberists – Don't Carry It All Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I want to point out a few clever lines: > We are all our hands in holders A pun on the word 'holders'. Hands in other's hands, or hands in grain containers. > But every vessel pitching hard to starboard > Lay it's head on summer's freckled knees Trade laden ships (vessels) returning to be docked on the beaches (summer's freckled knees). Also harvest containers (vessels) tipped (pitching) over onto the laps of those who sort them, > And you must bear your neighbors burden within reason > And your labors will be borne when all is done, and nobody nobody knows Support your neighbor through their hardships, and you will get through them together. Or birth (bear) your neighbor's child, no one will know who's child it is when the childbirth (labor) is over. |
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| Porcupine Tree – How Is Your Life Today? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[lassa:31911] Also the taxi could be a getaway car because he feels that her leaving killed him. | |
| Porcupine Tree – How Is Your Life Today? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[lassa:31910] yeah I agree and I’ve always thought those two lines were talking about the cold kiss of death, and your life flashing before your eyes as you die. | |
| The Decemberists – Don't Carry It All Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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'Here we come to a turning of the season' In an agrarian community, the seasons are changing from spring to summer. That the 'we' is an agrarian community is evident through the description of coming together to harvest in the rest of the refrain. We know it is summer for many reasons, including the talk of the 'brilliant sun', and the fact that harvest season is usually summer, but mainly because the word 'summer' is stated explicitly in the second verse. 'Witness to the arc towards the sun' (They) watch as their crops reach upwards to the light. Crops bend (arc) as they grow, towards areas of light, namely up 'towards the sun'. 'The neighbors blessed burden within reason Becomes a burden borne of all in one' Those in the agrarian community work hard together to harvest the crops. A 'blessed burden' is the difficult work of the harvest that that are thankful to have because it means that the growing was successful. 'And nobody, nobody knows' I don't really know either. 'Let the yoke fall from our shoulders Don't carry it all don't carry it all' No farmer tries to do all the work of the harvest. 'We are all our hands in holders' Everyone holds hands. Also everyone puts their hands in containers, probably because they are putting crops into those containers. A 'holder' is a container. '[Beneath] this bold and brilliant sun' Probably beneath and not but meet. But this I swear to all Hmmm. More coming. |
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