| Bon Iver – Flume Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this song is a tribute to his mother for giving him life. A simple song of gratitude for just being alive. (It’s enough, nothings more) sky is womb represents being given life. The imagery of the sky, water, bird, moon is meant to represent awe, a feeling a wonderment. The movement through water represents him moving through life, the flume is life. Life carries us, moves us, like water, the gluey feathers are the things that stick with us... memories, family, nature, love... some beautiful, some just downright painful. (Leaving rope burns, reddish rouge) |
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| Bon Iver – RE: Stacks Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Just my thoughts: This my excavation and to Day is Qumran Everything that happens is from now on This is pouring rain This is paralyzed He’s unearthing himself. Self discovery, trying to understand himself. It’s difficult work, the rain symbolizes a cleansing, but that it’s pouring rain symbolizes the difficulty of the process, he engulfed in it, possibly involves an intense sadness. Paralyzed also gives the feeling of this process as difficult. This has stopped him in his tracks, he is still in it, can’t move in it or away from it. He knows he’s going to unearth something important, and knows it’s going to change everything going forward, but not sure how. I keep throwing it down, two Hundred at a time It's hard to find it when you knew it When your money's gone And you're drunk as hell He’s giving it all he has, but somehow feels that it’s just a gamble. All of this work and he may end up right where he started... at your lowest of lows. You’re putting everything into it, but you it’s possible you only end up right with what you already knew? On your back with your racks as the stacks your load In the back with the racks and the stacks your load In the back with the racks and you're unstacking your load I think this is just symbolizing him working through its whatever it is that burdening him. The weight on his back, or maybe it’s about gaining and losing. back makes me think of a burden, what he’s carrying around, some carry the weight of the world. Sometimes we carry things we don’t really want, but we have to carry them anyway, maybe because when have to, or maybe because we forget that we can just let them go: The heavy stuff, the difficult stuff. If you can keep stacking things on yourself, but at some point you have to lift the weight off or it’ll crush you. I've been twisting to the sun I needed to replace And the fountain in the front yard is rusted out All my love was down In a frozen ground He is for a minute forgetting about his responsibilities (unstacking) and taking time to find solace in nature. Think of how sunflower turns towards the sun for light and nourishment. He realizes that somehow along the way he has lost himself, (his love frozen in the ground) as if he just laid it down and left it there. Maybe he laid it down because of the weight of the stacks. I think believe he finds it there again, in nature. I think it’s self love, love for another, love of nature, love of stillness or all of the above. I tend to think its self love. There's a black crow sitting across from me His wiry legs are crossed He's dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss Whatever could it be That has brought me to this loss? He sees a way out of this process he finds himself in, but realizes as much as he may want to get away from it he needs to stay. Temptation to shut it off and drive away. On your back with your racks as he stacks your load In the back with the racks and he stacks your load In the back with the racks and you're unstacking your loads. This is not the sound of a new man Or a crispy realization It's the sound of me unlocking and the lift away Your love will be Safe with me He’s done a lot work, self discovery, he’s opened himself up, worked through a lot of stuff, he has finally realized that he has allowed weight be lifted away. It’s doesn’t have to be this grand revelation, it can be very simple. He has allowed some things to be lifted away from from him and he has gained some really important things that had he realized he has lost. He is going to keep it safe, so he doesn’t lose it again. Beautiful song. I tend to think that the realizations at the end are just a bit more important than the writer alludes to in the last stanza. He hasn’t changed, he’s found himself again. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[TheCripple:32483] I really enjoyed reading your thoughts about this song. I just wanted to add the line I know I love you and you love the sea always threw me off, doesn’t seem like it fits with the rest of the song. Just thinking about it and I feel like he just pointing that he still can love this other person despite them having differing religious views. | |
| Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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First post for me, and it’s going to be a long one. Interpretation is very subjective, but I’m going to give it a shot with this one because this song has affected me so deeply for some reason tonight. To me this song is about unity, equality, and of course love. There is definitely a spiritual context to the song, But I feel that it is not very specific to any one religion, I do believe the spiritual context is deliberately universal, it provides a spiritual sense (awe of the orange sky) without being very specific. The deliberate universality provides a sense of unity among the people in the song. Let’s break it down. Well I had a dream I Stood beneath an orange sky Yes I had a dream I Stood beneath an orange sky With my brother standing by With my brother standing by I said brother, you know you know It's a long road we've been walking on Yes it is, yes it is, you know, brother it is Such a long road we've been walking on Oh brother, oh brother. And I had a dream I stood beneath an orange sky With my sister standing by With my sister standing by I had a dream could possibly be reference to the MLK I have a dream speech, and I think is the first clue that this song is about unity, equality and of course love. I feel the person is having a vision/dream of standing with his brothers and sisters not only is he seeing this illumination of an orange sky, they all see the same illumination at the same time, standing together, side by side. As they stand in awe you almost get a sense as if time has stands still for a moment, as if everything else is washed away by this glorious orange sky. For this brief moment there is nothing else. Nothing that makes them different, nothing that separates them, nothing that divides them, just this sense of awe from the illumination of light. And then standing in awe, a brief moment of acknowledgement of the other, a moment of compassion, an acknowledgement of the other persons journey and struggles (such a long road we’ve been walking on) The music and the lyric provide such powerful imagery for me and this sense of unity among people. I said, here is what I know now sister Here is what I know now Goes like this In your love, my salvation lies In your love, my salvation lies In your love, my salvation lies In your love, in your love, in your love Pretty simple here, your love has the power to save another, the power to redeem another. And then, Oh, but you know I am so weary And you know my heart My hearts been broken now Sometimes, sometimes My mind is too strong to carry on Too strong, too strong to carry on When I am alone When I've thrown off the weight of this crazy stone When I've lost all care for the things I own That's when I miss you, that's when I miss you You who are my home You who are my home now This just explains the ways in which your love provides salvation, a sanctuary for others. We are distracted by many other things though, things we own, our burdens, our heartbreaks. He is making a commitment to himself and others to love and be loved (to make a home there) Ah, The power of love, SO needed by SO many, so much so.... that a person might just curl up into a little ball and seek the shelter of a home in it. Ah such a beautiful song, too bad it was just a dream ;) |
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