| The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I always thought that the noise at the end sounded like wind... and this repetitive guitar riff... I don't know, but when I close my eyes and just listen to it, I see a giant stairway that goes up into the sky. And the higher you are, the more intense the wind gets. And suddenly it cuts. Of course you have to take this metaphorically, like some climax of heavy feelings. And then paradoxically 'heavy' sounds almost like 'heaven'. Lennon said that it was about Yoko and that "when you're drowning, you don't say, 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.' You just scream." And still to me it sounds more like an ascend than drowning. Maybe an ascend in the dept of emotions... | |
| The National – Exile Vilify Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Knowing nothing about the game I'll talk about the possible meaning from the writers point of view. I think "Exile" stands for the state he is in, as he says that it takes his mind again. Exile is the feeling you have when you start asking yourself abstract questions, when you start losing touch to everydays life and think "Why?". Exile is when your mind starts drifting away from your routine, from your friends and your family, when everything seems absurd and ridiculous. It's a situation the narrator or the person he's talking about knows really well, "it takes your mind again". It's a kind of up and down thing like in R.E.M.s "Low": "Up and down, High and low, Low low low" that symbolizes the cours of life. You feel low then it goes better, then low again and better again and so on. In those situation everything seems heavy: "suckers luck", you feel like giving up, "feels like a trial": life feels like a burden ect. Then "you lived so much" sounds like if he actually doesn't want that "living" anymore and want to take a break. Although I'm not sure about the link between "does it feel like a trial" and "No, you're thinking too fast, You're like marbles on glass", i think the second one is a beautiful image. Then I think "Vilify, don't even try" means, that the person sould stop asking itself because it's senseless and just accept the condition even if it seems absurd. Vilify, don't even try to understand. "Did you fall for the same empty answers again?" means the attempt to give yourself reasons to eplain why things are like they are, because it's always easier to believe in something than to accept the senselessness of your condition. And in contrast to that the advice of the resigned and disillusioned narrator that says "Accept instead of trying to find empty answers". |
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| The National – Reasonable Man (I Don't Mind) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| THIS is well said ;) Good interpretation, I had kinda the same in mind. | |
| The National – Start a War Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Exactly what I was thinking too. That situation is so well known to me. I agree to 100% with every word you've written. | |
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