| Fleet Foxes – Your Protector Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| P.S. I wish you could edit your posts here. Clearly I have botched my post--apologies for the A) D) thing. Not sure what happened there. I started my post here but moved it to notepad and obviously I made some mistakes in the transfer. ;) | |
| Fleet Foxes – Your Protector Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I meant to add in there that I think the sound of the music has to be taken into account. It's very old world/old west sounding. It could be interpreted either way with the sound of the flutes, tambourines, and drums, I think. Also, the album the song is on has a medieval scene on the cover and many of the other songs on the album have old world titles. Another song seems to have "old America" type titles, like "Blue Ridge Mountains". |
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| Fleet Foxes – Your Protector Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A) "She left her wheat to roam" instead of "she left a week to roam" - It sounds like he's saying "her" not "a" - There is no significance to the word "week"... why is it important that she left for a week? It makes no sense. - Wheat, on the other hand, makes sense because it implies the simple life of a farm--and that is her home, which she has left in order to roam. This lyric fits a lot of "old world" contexts, whether its seventeenth century England or the nineteenth century American west. D) "As you lay to die beside me, on the morning the shootin' came" instead of "As you lay tonight beside me on the morning that you came" - "As you lay TONIGHT beside me ON THE MORNING" makes no sense... it can't be both night and morning. - It simply sounds like "to die" and not "tonight" - Although it does sound like he could be saying "that'ch'you ca'ame", it also sounds like he could be saying "the shootin' ca'ame". - If she's dying, that also seems to imply that it's "the morning the shootin' came". Otherwise, why is she dying? There is no other explanation for why she's dying, which is why the lyric "shooting" makes more sense. - "Shooting" fits in with the possible old world/old west feel to the song E) While I'm not sure about the meaning of: Tell your brother to be good, Tell your sister not to go, Tell your mother not to wait, I do think, "Tell your father I was good" fits in with the old world/old west theme again, because here it appears that perhaps he was some sort of renegade and because she got involved with him, she got caught in the crossfire of whatever trouble he was involved in. I think the "tell your father I was good" lyric is the renegade saying that he was a good guy or that his intentions were good, even if his actions were misunderstood. |
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