| Jason Isbell – Something to Love Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| notice how it's some "thing" and not some "one". find a strong bedrock to base your life on, like Jason did with music, or you'll be a slave to a desperate pursuit of heaven for your whole life | |
| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics | 2 years ago |
|
Mr. Tambourine Man is a personification of art. The song's character is mysterious, demanding and even fantastical, just like art. Life without art is shallow, boring, unbearable. It wearies the narrator to a point which amazes him. The line "My senses have been stripped" accuses the numbing consumerist culture (and its schools) the narrator found himself living in. He fights it by engaging with art. Art brings him to an elevated state, he laughs, spins, swings madly across the sun without hurting anyone (It's not aimed for anyone) but still the ragged clown ("society" and those who don't "get it") chases him. But he's in such an elevated state that their jeers sound to him like lines of poetry, and all they are chasing is a shadow. They can't catch him, and he'll go to that place far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Art calms the overthinking and distracted mind, brings it to a place where time is in ruins, and memory and fate (past and future) is driven deep beneath the waves. |
|
| Arctic Monkeys – D Is for Dangerous Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I pretty sure this song is about post nut clarity | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.