| Fiona Apple – Left Alone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Why do I see 'orotund' everywhere I look? Rotund, however, is a word. (meaning 'portly') "When you were a rotund mutt" |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – Into the Stream Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Why has no one mentioned that the Sparrow and the Medicine lyrics are posted for "Into the Stream"? | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – The Drying of the Lawns Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think you nailed that pretty well. "Drying of the lawns" was always such a cryptic phrase I was never able to get past it, much as I love the song, and I think you explain it well. One thing, though: "But I tell you boy, I'm frightened still with a sister's heart". You said you weren't sure about that. I'd like to suggest that it's like saying "I love you like a sister". It's a way of putting distance between their relationship, and further enforces her narrative that this isn't "real love". She's frightened by his passion, by his possessiveness, by his pure (and naive, in her thinking) love, so like that of a child. I also agree that "I can use you if you're in the flame, I'm-a growin' old" is a way of saying that she can use him (for sex) if he's "in the flame", in the moment, full of desire and less full of questions and expectations for the future. But because she's growing old (pretty sure this is about an older woman/younger man relationship, or at least the woman /feels like/ she's older and more mature) she needs to think about realistic things, not this starry-eyed boy who covets her and views her as the answer to all of life's questions. She's not ready for that, and in a way the boy's pure love makes him seem wiser than she. He suggests at the end that her attempts to look past the "real thing" for something that doesn't feel too good to be true are going to forever keep them where they are right now: irreconcilable. |
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