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| Sufjan Stevens – Romulus Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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the line "she smoked in her room and colored her hair" has always stood out to me, because that seems to me like something one would do to ease heartache. i can imagine their mother: sitting barefoot in the window, her just-wrinsed hair still dripping dye down her back; her eyes bloodshot from crying at the realization that she hardly knows her children. |
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| Andrew Bird – Spare-Ohs Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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when i saw him last summer, the explanation he gave was that he asked a friend to care for his chickens while he was away on tour("that YOU failed to protect"), but a fox killed all his birds. in his story, "nobody cares when it gets in their hair" seemed pretty literal. |
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