Bowl of Oranges Lyrics
This song is great, one of my favorites on lifted. I have to disagree with all of you though, the melody might be really uplifting but just look at the lyrics. It's not a happy song at all. "We'll keep working on the problems we know we'll never solve Of love's uneven remainders our lives are fractions of a whole. But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall then i think we'd see the beauty then.." The last verse is like a summation of the entire song, he talks about being happy and bouncy up until that point, but he realizes all of that's just a painting on the wall. He talks about how things are only beautiful in still lives, things that don't move and don't change.
The up beat melody and the lyrics up until the last verse seem almost sarcastic to me, but then maybe i'm just being cynical. In my opinion the song's not any happier than any other bright eyes songs. Still wonderful though.
if a song makes someone cry... why do people have to like analyze it? everyone has their reasons. sometimes i cry when a song is nice and uplifting...
ummmm.... because they want to?
ummmm.... because they want to?
word. this song makes me happy.
i agree. makes me feel happy too.
i agree. makes me feel happy too.
whenever i listen to this song, i have an orange craving.
HAHAHHA! everybody, check out my name, I just discovered bright eyes, but have been logged into this name forever, I choose it because it was beautifully melancholic sounding. AND now I've discovered bright eyes. Holy shit, its not good because i gravitate towards depressing stuff and he looked stupid at first but i heard this song once and i played it over and over again until 2 in the morning. This is bad, I have found my heroin, my drug.
just a correction: "But everything seemed different and completly new to me"
I love how this song is just so light and bouncy. It puts a smile on my face every time I listen to it.
Its an amazing uplifting song. Its like an assurance that everything will be alright, specially in the second to last verse. This song, like many other written by that great artist CONOR OBERST, makes me weep.
I love this song, but I have to ask you WeepingDonut, how can it make you cry? It's one of the happiest songs I have heard by Bright Eyes.
One of the happiest? "We'll keep working on the problem We know we'll never solve Of love's uneven remainders Our lives are fractions of a whole" That part right there isn't exactly the most happy thing i've ever heard. Besides, even if this song was meant to be a happy one, WeepingDount may have been "crying tears of joy" :P
One of the happiest? "We'll keep working on the problem We know we'll never solve Of love's uneven remainders Our lives are fractions of a whole" That part right there isn't exactly the most happy thing i've ever heard. Besides, even if this song was meant to be a happy one, WeepingDount may have been "crying tears of joy" :P
maybe this song does make weeping donut cry. maybe he/she is depressed and it makes him/her jealous that her depressing song writer hero, is just a little bit hopeful. you know self pity.