| Sonic Youth – Hoarfrost Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I have a bit different understanding. Its a couple in love/harmony that makes a peaceful car roadtrip on a snowy day. This feels, to me, like an allegory of life itself and they both know all along the way how it'll end (we both know we would). Life goes on, goes on and they see (glimpse?) a couple "in" the snow, like lying, then "standing". Its a premonition of what comes next. The break happens with the word "suddenly" while everything before was smooth as steady snow falling sound. Car headlights flashed trees, fast reflecting clouds really sounds like car losing control then crashing/rotating. The fact that then, its total silence except the wind sound seems to confirm that. They then lie on the ground, actually melting with the soil (turned into frozen meadow). I like to think that the premonition of a couple standing in the snow and the sentence "you'll know where when we get there" that concludes, means that the trip goes on, at another level of consciousness. A very beautiful song were music, voice and lyrics are so well balanced, that the final result is more than music: images, poetry, meaning. |
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