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| Bon Iver – Towers Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i saw him in concert and he mentioned dorms. "this song is about dorms. yep, it's about dorms...and drugs...and ritalin." that last one kinda threw me off, although it goes perfectly with the line "from the liver, sweating through your tongue." |
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| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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spot on comparison to both of the other songs you mentioned, not because they are musically similar, but because they brought out a purely emotional response from me when i first heard them. it's a rare thing for me; i enjoy a lot of music, but in a cerebral way, i guess. this song has an overwhelming atmosphere of melancholy. it makes me miss something i never had. |
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| Miracle Fortress – Little Trees Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i think this song is a contemplation on God, and the narrator's struggle to relate to Him. the first stanza sets up an exchange of ideas between the narrator and someone who has been showing him the Bible (in the new testament everything said by jesus is in red words) the friend "sends the words" and the narrator's response is to process what he is reading and "lend a phrase". perhaps the narrator is indulging the idea that these red words are sent from God himself, so the song is aimed directly at God. at any rate, it seems like what he is reading points to regret and shame. and also confusion that he knows will not be answered with a cure, a verse, or a complete explanation for the way things are here on earth, and why we are here for our "seasons and turns." why history is filled with free miracles of sound, but also the stark reality of having to work just to survive.
i love the poetic euphemisms that are employed to describe God's role, as the "police of the purified" and the ambivalent tone of "so what else"
have you ever heard a whale song? if you really listened, it haunts you with this undeniably numinous beauty. i oscillate between feeling a part of something great, and just vastly insignificant. the ratio of the whale's bigness to my smallness seems as far as the east from the west.
but human pain, "the wail's a boy brings home" is experienced on a relative scale. we experience our confusion with God and the natural world, not just logically, but emotionally. our troubles are a whale of a problem that figures in our mind just as large as a real whale. or doubts can take root as little trees, that grow tall enough to obstruct the sky, and cast a shadow over the rest of our life.
i think the birds are a really important recurring metaphor. the narrator is unable to communicate the profound truths of his song to birds, who fly free and sing their own beautiful song. they wouldn't think much of human music, just as we are unable to interpret any meaning in their song. even if he tried to relate to them, he couldn't. they are in different stations, as God is to man. even though the birds lack the analytical ability of humans to make sense of greater philisophical questions, they have the advantage of a panoramic view from above, the "glimpse from the heavens of earth" so what is the point. both humans and birds are both doomed to chase history in circles. |
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| TV on the Radio – Will Do Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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so good! just from listening i think the bridge starts out with "oh my reddest rose" but i don't make out anything else after that. |
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| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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thank you, post above. i think the songwriter has a distinct empathy for these scummy art kids, and i'm not pointing fingers, i might be a naval-gazing sheep as well. in an interview he even says it was written "with a wink." what I hate most about hipsters is constantly hearing about what other people hate about them. it's like being unable to get out from under a wool blanket on a hot day. the big everyday hates like religion or politics are bad enough, i'm tired of vehement comments that waste emotion on "their" particular brand of failure to be authentic or original. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – I Walked Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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but double rainbow, what does this mean?? i mean how many comments does it take to correct the lyrics is there anyone here who can find the words to describe the finer points of this lyrical feast, i seem to only grasp at meaning through some foggy intuition. |
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| Bright Eyes – I'll Be Your Friend Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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it feels totally uncanny that i would look up this song because of a situation i'm going through right now, and then based on just a song interpretation, thecomaboy basically described my situation better than i could myself. |
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