| U2 – Get On Your Boots Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love Big Girls are Best. It is one of my motivating songs. I think this one can be included in that mix. | |
| U2 – Stand Up Comedy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Historybuff, I really like your comment. I think it is spot on. I especially like the line in the song "But while I'm getting over certainty/Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady." I guess the song is pretty clear in its meaning. "God is love and love is evolution's very best day" This is one of my favorite songs from the new album. |
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| Andrew Bird – Why? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I know. It is amazing to watch it live. It it almost erotic. I know that sounds weird, but that's how I felt when I saw him perform it live. It was just completely sexy. | |
| Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I like your theory. But I also think the first part about the guy stretched out on the tarmac six miles south of North Platte isn't necessarily about substance abuse or someone regretting years of substance abuse. | |
| Andrew Bird – Anonanimal Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is also my favorite song off of the album. I listen to it over and over and it has thankfully knocked What if God Was One of Us?" out of permanent rotation in my head when my mind wanders. I love the alliteration and the imagery. I can imagine a sea anemone under the sea, its tentacles stretched out like an exotic flower waiting to sting some unsuspecting fish for its meal. Beautiful and dangerous at the same time. When I walk around the office I sometimes wonder what animal best suits my office mates and the way they move. |
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| The Frames – People Get Ready Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jesus didn't destroy the temple, but he turned over the tables of the money changers and drove the merchants out of the temple. Saying: My Father's house is to be a house of prayer. But you have turned it into a den of thieves. I love this song, especially the drums in it. During Lollapalooza, Glen at one point just sort of shouted an incomprehensible chant during the chorus that reminded me of some native American singers. I think they might have been inspired by Native American drumming when they did the percussion for this song, and I think Glen was sort of channeling that (although, Native American singers are actually singing in a recognizable language and not just sort of chanting nonsense like Glen does.) |
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| Aqualung – Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it is about unrequited love. I really like this song, because it hits home. I think the narrator is so in love with this person and that person is first in their heart and mind and what they think they want and need. But, when they don't get that person, with time they realize that that person was not what they needed. It could also be the narrator wishing to put that sort of spell on the other person---that that person doesn't realize that what they seek and desire isn't what they me be focused on, but is actually them, the last person they'd seek. | |
| Nick Drake – Man In A Shed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This reminds me of the story in "The Science of Sleep." About someone being afraid to get emotionally involved with a person who seems to be depressed or otherwise mentally ill. This is just a beautiful song through and through. | |
| M. Ward – From A Pirate Radio Sermon, 1989 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song too. It almost sounds as if he is waiting for the second coming of Christ (or at least the narrator in the song). The lines "I am waiting for the dy when I will finally know surrender," "I don't know the day or hour/ But I can sense the final power" lead me to think of that. There is a line about the second coming of Christ in the Bible that says he will come like a theif in the night and that no man will know the day or the hour. (1Thessalonians 5:2; Matthew 24:36). However, those verses speak of the second coming and the apocolypse. While the song speaks of renewal and peace. It reminds me of Isaish 40:31--that those who trust in the Lord will run and not grow weary, will walk and not grow faint. Like, he is not just waiting for the second coming, but for heaven. That's all I got :) But the song is called From a Pirate Radio Sermon | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Restore! Rebuild! Reconsider!) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love the line "once a great place, now a prison." To think such a catchy song could be written about urban decay. As a student of urban studies, this song rocks. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Why can't a song be about many things? There are definitely Christian references here although his observation of the families and mothers in Paradise inspired his song and was the source. Just like most honest art by Christians, your faith influences and infuses things. I think it is a beautiful song and I love Sufjan's honest and open approach to his art. He rights from his heart about what he sees and observes from eyes that are influenced by the life he has lead, including his faith. I think that is why so many people like his music beyond having a nice hummable tune. That is why I think he is a true artist. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Saul Bellow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"What's the worth of All the work of my hands? And the worst of On Lake Michigan" This reminds me of the laments in the book of Ecclesiastes 2:11 where Solomon states: "Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun." Maybe he is talking about the University of Chicago and education, and the grand scheme to make this great university. Maybe the work of his hands, the worst of which is on Lake Michigan refers to the university where Saul Bellow was educated and taught and where he stirred up a lot of controversy. I don't know what the meaning under that it. But it doesn't seem like such a stretch to connect to Illinois like stupid_name suggests |
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| Sufjan Stevens – We Are What You Say Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Seven Swans was his album. The Christian folk group he did lots of work with is the Danielson Familie. He works alot with Bro. Danielson (the mastermind behind the Danielson Familie). You can sense some of the influence of the Danielson Familie on some of his work. I like the idea that this may be about mormonism. It makes sense. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – We Are What You Say Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Seven Swans was his album. The Christian folk group he did lots of work with is the Danielson Familie. He works alot with Bro. Danielson (the mastermind behind the Danielson Familie). You can sense some of the influence of the Danielson Familie on some of his work. I like the idea that this may be about mormonism. It makes sense. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with Southbound. The last part of the song sounds like a plea to God to make his life right and to make it his. Come on, Life! (Take it up) Come on, Lord! (Take it over) Make it right! (To the Mississippi) Make it Yours! |
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