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| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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OK, so I don't necessarily think this song is about abortion (although that is an excellent personal interpretation). I do think it this has medical connotations, though.
In 2009-2010, Joanna underwent vocal chord surgery to remove a growth in her throat. As a result, her voice changed drastically; I'm sure some of that was deliberate or just a result of her growing older, but there is undoubtedly a serious change in the tone of her voice from Ys to HOoM.
In this song, Joanna is mourning the loss of her younger, less mature self, using the surgery as a turning point for this change in her life. The butcher, barber, and blacksmith are still surgeons, but are operating on Joanna instead of performing an abortion. The bunny represents her younger self. She spent a fair amount of time chasing it down, but realizes that everyone has to grow up/mature eventually, so she accepts the inevitable and lets the bunny go. This is evident just by looking at her albums. There is a huge leap in lyrical maturity between her first two albums and this one.
The skinning of the bunny of course adds to the surgical imagery of the song and even more viscerally symbolizes the surgery. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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OK, so I don't necessarily think this song is about abortion (although that is an excellent personal interpretation). I do think it this has medical connotations, though.
In 2009-2010, Joanna underwent vocal chord surgery to remove a growth in her throat. As a result, her voice changed drastically; I'm sure some of that was deliberate or just a result of her growing older, but there is undoubtedly a serious change in the tone of her voice from Ys to HOoM.
In this song, Joanna is mourning the loss of her younger, less mature self, using the surgery as a turning point for this change in her life. The butcher, barber, and blacksmith are still surgeons, but are operating on Joanna instead of performing an abortion. The bunny represents her younger self. She spent a fair amount of time chasing it down, but realizes that everyone has to grow up/mature eventually, so she accepts the inevitable and lets the bunny go. This is evident just by looking at her albums. There is a huge leap in lyrical maturity between her first two albums and this one.
The skinning of the bunny of course adds to the surgical imagery of the song and even more viscerally symbolizes the surgery. |
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| Mac DeMarco – My Kind of Woman Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"Down on my hands and knees, begging you please" echoes Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel, a song about the singer being cheated on. This leads me to think that there may be some themes of infidelity and denial in this song. She's so perfect to him that he's willing to look past or simply ignore her flaws just to be with her. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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this is the best song of all time. no contest. it speaks to your soul like no other song ever written does. there is something in the piano line, bruce's voice, the big man's solo, that communicates to us on a level that no other composition has ever reached. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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this is one of the happiest songs of all time. it's about adventure, those days where you and your buddy just hit the road looking for something, anything to do. sure wayne gets arrested, but as LCD soundsystem says, "I wouldn't trade one stupid decision for another five years of life" |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Lonesome Day Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think the comments about it being about a girl are just as right as the 9/11 interpretations. The song could just as easily be about his wife/girlfriend who died in the attacks and the singer's conflicting thoughts of revenge and understanding after the death. |
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| Dan Deacon – Wham City Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I have a feeling that the lyrics of this song (at least in the first and last parts) don't really have a specific meaning. They just sound really, really good together. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – The City Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I don't think it necessarily has anything specific to do with Catcher in the Rye. Like Karma policeman said, the themes in this song and in Catcher are pretty much universal for people between the ages of 12 and 20. I think the two works just happen to both explore the same feelings of isolation. |
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| Death Grips – Blood Creepin Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Yeah, so this is pretty much the scariest song ever. From what I can glean, it's about the main character of the album going around teaching an apprentice how to deal drugs and kill people.
That's about all I got. I'm gonna go hide under my bedsheets now. |
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