| Iron & Wine – Fever Dream Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[leelinm25:43466] Love this interpretation. Every line makes sense when you look at it this way. Only thing is I'm still hung up on this line "like babies want God's love." I can't get that line to click in my head. Is it that a baby has no concept of God and so can't want it, yet still needs it? Or maybe that God's love is somehow perfect in a way a human mother could never be? I feel like I'm missing something here. |
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| Iron & Wine – Teeth in the Grass Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I had thought of the teeth as the aftermath of a fistfight, but be they that or tombstones I think the meaning of each verse is the same: no matter how perfect things get, things will never be perfect. | |
| Iron & Wine – Sodom, South Georgia Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[enough5:43456] So after some digging I'm like 98% onboard with this interpretation. Considering that the song "Free Until They Cut Me Down" from two tracks earlier in the album is about the lynching of a black man and that Sam Beam grew up and/or lives in South Carolina where racism is apparently still very real and in the open, it's not a stretch to imagine this song is also mostly about racism. To add to your take on the line "White tongues hang out/ God is good," I think this is meant to mean that the dead white boys carelessly, even ignorantly declare that god is good without considering what others have gone through. The phrase "flapping your gums" comes to mind. If their tongues are hanging out they're just always lazily saying it. |
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