| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I think communist in this song represents the idea of sharing everything. In combination with songs like "Oh, Comely", you get the idea of a girl being used, and used by many people. She's passed between people, like a prostitute, as if she is one of the possessions the communists' share. The idea that the mountain tops are her breasts continues this...she's used and then left, and she has to see if she's still alive in the only way she knows to be alive--as a sexual object. That's my take on it, anyway. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Interesting analysis. I'd always placed a narrative on the entire album...a man looking back on his life before his death ("And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea"...and the album's title is "The Aeroplane Over the Sea") but I had never associated it with any actual historical figures. Very interesting. Regardless, the song is great, the album is great, the band is great...it's just a masterpiece. | |
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