| Beach House – Myth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Beach House – Myth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In terms of interpretation, here is my general feeling on the song. The song seems to point at the beginning or ending of a new relationship, it's not necessarily one that was romantic, it would also be applicable to changing life situations. The opening verse --- This is a description of travel, road, drifting. Often in our lives we "awaken" to the direction we're heading, we don't have a clear sense of where/when it began. When we finally reach a destination, it often seems to never be what we though it was. The chorus ---- I really have the impression this is a comment on the stories we used to have explain how we got here, why we're here, what we're doing. Myths are developed in order to give a sense meaning to our lives but the frightening part is that we no longer perceive myths as a type of truth...Instead, our current mindset is that myths are essentially made up realities, something we can just "assign" ourselves. The frightening part is to wonder what it means, beng able to assign such stories to ourselves, can we easily just wipe away our pasts with something we made up? (A more literal translation, is simply that being in a new relationship, you have to construct a myth for how you got there. This way you'll exactly "what to give" --- What to provide for each other in the relationship) The final verses --- This again returns to the idea that the song is not about "one" intimate relationship but the course that a person's life is taking. I imagine that being on the road and traveling for a band puts her in the position of seeing all kinds of beautiful things. She imagines that the canyons letting her know, "you're not the only who is confused about where you're going" The irony is of course, canyon's don't move, there is no direction for canyon's to go. So perhaps, on some level the ending: "No use hanging on, to what is dead and gone" When we're hanging on to things, looking for direction, waiting for myths to give us instruction...We simply stop moving, we don't progress, evolve or change...We cannot transform or in the case of the album title. We cannot "Bloom".... |
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| Animal Collective – Unsolved Mysteries Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Enjoyourroots, My advice is that you take the time to get your lips away from your dog's anus. It's making you talk alot of shit. |
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| Animal Collective – Unsolved Mysteries Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song, like most of the CD seems to get into the idea of transition from childhood to a more adult status. I believe that in some ways, the notion of "abortion" mentioned above are somewhat valid in that it's essentially an allusion to a loss of childlike quality. The song opens up with this sense being sweet, lovely, charming and cute. Our parents stand by us and even the most easy of tasks "tying laces", are seen as these fantastic accomplishments. The narrator of the song then ponders, "why must we move on, from such happy lawns into nostalgia's palm and feed on the traces". This is basically concerning the fact that we move forward in our lives and are left only to look back on the things we've done. The "unsolved mysteries" of life...so to speak...why do we grow up? why do we get old? The next section concerns the choices we make as we become older. Do we hop to the dance (conformity) or do we embarrass the parents (being ourselves). This is a choice in life that we all have to make and either way, we will "go to sleep worrying". Because whether we conform or not, to a degree it's still rather frightening. Keeping with this theme of growing up is the allusion to blood in the dark and that they're not violent, we all have hungry bellies. As we grow up we really do some terrible things to each other and it's not that we're violent/crazy/insane/egotistical, we really DO have hungry bellies. It's a kind of joke that I think he's making and it's really funny if you think about it. "I am not violent, I just have a hungry belly". Growing up is to "stop crying like a child" and I think in some ways, by no longer crying like a child we no longer see ourselves in the real way we actually are. We forget the "pain and sadness anyway", we forget who we are. That we're children, all of us, growing wildly. Inside each of us is that same hurt,scared, lovely child that is really trying to make it out of this world alive. The ending segment of the song is about how we enter relationships and we have people who look at us and we're struck by our general attraction....When they look into our eyes, we find that we've grown up old and more frighteningly we've grown up to be the same demons that we used to be afraid of. Yes, we might have "Stopped crying like a child" but now we're just Jack the Rippers. We're slaughtering other human beings, we're killing our inner selves, we're losing it and going crazy. |
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