| Bright Eyes – The Invisible Gardener Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| It's a cute wee song...I love Collecton. It's a fabby album. | |
| Bright Eyes – We Are Free Men Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| This is, of course, of one the greatest BE songs. I love the way the voices blend, especially at the end. I'm a sucker for Saddle Creek-style choirs. It's one of the few hopeful Bright Eyes songs, too. It gives hope for the end of all this stuff. | |
| From Autumn to Ashes – Mercury Rising Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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*shows off name* Where do you think I got that? Mwa ha ha. I love this song, and I really listened to it when I really needed it... It captures the raw nakedness of someone who has failed themself. I love it. |
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| Bright Eyes – Pull My Hair Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I see this as a song about a washed-up relationship that uses sex to stay "alive," because nothing else can save it. "More like a song and less like it's math..." The sex makes it seem less calculated and take their minds of the problem that thier failing love presents, losing themselves in lust. All deep-thinking thoughts aside...yeah, sexy song, though. Very horny. |
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| Bright Eyes – Trees Get Wheeled Away Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Ah, yes. Another brilliant Conor song. "The Next James Taylor..." He's better than Taylor could ever aspire to be...far more raw and realistic. There are a few BE songs that have form similar to this one's, and in their randomosity they are simply beautiful. Small verses all connected in theme, but unique and different in the same thing at the same time...beautiful. Simply beautiful. |
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| Bright Eyes – No Lies, Just Love Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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First of all, Richie (aka iidefinitionii), no. Just...no. I'm telling your sister on you, you little 'un. It's not about babies, or Chris, or proving that life's not garbage. Congratulations to LuckyMonkey for nailing this song and actually thinking about it. This is, undoubtedly, a song about suicide..."those things I thought I would need," "I wrote a letter to my family," "lately I've been feeling like I don't belong"...yeah, that's all screaming suicide in a beautiful Conorian way. The line about the flower capture the utter brilliant ways in which Oberst works in a few words...his lyrics are so pure and naked. If you really feel like committing suicide, yes, a simple thing like a flower parting from the earth could move you so deeply and make you contemplate deep yet simple things, and is beautifully symbolic of a graceful, sorrowful death. The "refrain," though simple, is also full of naked truths that send you scrambling for a shoulder to cry on. Though Conor's symbolism is not at all cloaked in webs of intoxicating words as it usually is, it tells what it needs to with an air of imperfect perfection...forgive my act because I am leaving. Sometime, one is so brought down by the redundancy of life that there's no better solution than to end it all. The Justin part, as I see it, has absolutely nothing to do with anyone's sexual orientation. As LuckyMonkey said, Justin's his brother. As Spring came (More symbolism, moving from "winter"-depression- to "spring"-a transitional period into happiness, a realization that there is some warmth and goodness in the world) his brother said that if he did decide to kill himself, while it was Conor's decision alone, he would be so deeply hurt and saddened that he, too, would follow him in his death. That, after the "Spring" of realization, finally turned him around and let him see the light in life. Now this is where I kind of differ in opinion from LuckyMonkey (gee, it would be nice if I knew your real name and didn't feel so foolish with all this monkey business) in small ways. I actually didn't see it as a parallel to Conor. I saw it in that light a little, I suppose, but I took it more as Conor saying that as soon as you enter the world, the "cold" starts getting to you, as it got to Conor, and that you can see it in the people who surround you, which would cause Conor's idea of purifying himself. Yes, so that's my take on it. Now that I am done with all my soon-to-be-English-Major-esque rant about it, I'd just like to say that my favourite part is the end, when there's the overlay of "Like snow, like gold"s and "So please forgive what I have done"s. That's simply beautiful. Oh yes, and I would also like to state that most probably, this is not about Conor all of the way. Even he himself has said that he takes the liberty all lyricists do...using your experiences and thoughts and combining them with those of the people around you and their thoughts. That is the bit that is more hard to explain, I think, but if you write at all, you'll know what I am talking about. And no, I am not referring to the track on Fevers and Mirrors...that interview track. That's not Conor. My understanding is that it's one of the guys from the Faint pretending to be Conor. Or something. [/rant] |
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