| Aldous Harding – The Barrel Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[disco_nnect:36562] thanks so much for this offering. It matches closely with my first impression of the song after really listening to the lyrics. That being said, my interpretation has changed over multiple listenings and so offer a slightly different take: i don't see this as a song at the end of a relationship...i see it as a luke-warm re-affirmation of a love that was feeling stale and distant. It's a love between people who have children, but are avoiding the heavy commitment of marriage (you shook before the ivory mantle/as a poet i knew to be gentle). The song seems to be about the need to escape from this nut/barrel on the wave of love, which is, by its nature, transient but also concedes that the peaches are out of reach. The line "it's already dead" seems to me to point to an acknowledgement that the time for other peaches has passed because "i know you have the dove" i.e. you possess that which symbolizes home and dry ground after the flood. As for "show the ferret to the egg" i am not entirely sure but your thoughtful analysis has led me to think it could be about the prospect of another child to continue the "braiding" of the union within the nut (totally encased) or the barrel (hollow and open to the outside). I am not entirely sure that there is just one clear message but i just want to offer up a new way to think about the poetry of the lyrics. Thanks again for helping me think it through | |
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