| Sunny Day Real Estate – Waffle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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SVTristan is right. This is more or less a transcription of a mystical experience where the singer feels close to either two dieties or two facets of the same diety. It's not clear if that distinction even matters to the singer. The last part I interpret as: the will to make stillness inside yourself causes an almost slippery consciousness expansion. Planets, sky. |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Shadows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The singer is thinking about a toy he had as a child. In particular a little warrior, crusader-type figure in a drab grey uniform. This resonates with him. He's one of them somehow. Their names don't matter. They're respected by their parents and family. They are proud. They don't look down. They memorize words to give them hope. Dark times arrive to "count these numbers down". He thinks "no one can take away" his soul, his beliefs, his dogma. But the "dream's over" too quick. All of a sudden terrible things are obvious. What have I done? The process starts over at a new level. This entire thing repeats as we learn from our experiences and adopt new "words to memorize". |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Song About An Angel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song has a Buddhist quality to it. You could almost think of the song as someone conversing with his or her own pure Spirit. Some traditions will call it an angel, some will call it the singer's own Buddha-nature. The singer is lucidly dreaming about trying to fall away, laying outstretched. Trying to find God in the sand. You get the impression that the singer is hurting, seeking closure, and close, but unable to find it. Very elusive. The angel delivers crushing but liberating advice: You are married to your pain. Your pain is the rope tethering you to where you are. This just adds to the pain of the singer. If you look at it from a certain perspective, the entire Earth cries. The path of evolution for just about every creature and species has been unquestionably brutal and full of saddness. The angel isn't about to get caught up in a discussion about which pain to face first. "My back is turned". And finally: in the end, aren't all of our discomforts already crystal clear? Perhaps the problem is that we don't actually want to find them, we just want to wallow in our pain. |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If you've ever driven in December in a place where it snows in the winter, you'll understand that this song is about a car accident: December's tragic drive. I am the fool. When things go out of control, time is poetry. Time steals the world. Have you seen the ending to American Beauty? When you're in a life or death situation, you don't have time for fear-- that all comes later. When the tide breaks and you realize you've survived, the fear comes rushing in. The brave "songs" you've sung disappear. A new dawn. We all taste death. That is life's only certainty. You'll taste it too, in time. We will find the words to express this simple but powerful fact in time. The mirrors lie. That isn't my messed up face. Those aren't my messed up eyes. As I smash the mirror and see myself reflected in the shards, I realize I am a soul reborn. I am still me, but I am reborn. |
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