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All trees are oaks all birds are blue in the mountains of a magnet (are the mountains of you) I'm proud of my genius just like a painter and dumb like a poet I think I can just say it from the throats of our wrists with full sets of teeth vanilla almond teeth from vanilla almond tea spent afternoons measuring time in spoons. A southern run for a late longing to drink. What's 80 miles in Canada or 18 years in the mountains where all trees are oaks and all birds are blue, ach` du. I thought everyone was you. Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things that don't get old, don't get old between one June and September you're all I remember but I'm a lantern, my head a moon. I married a room where I'll at least keep my hands in order. And what about the air, lying awake.
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Submitted by
oofus On May 31, 2001
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how clever - a song full of allusions to Sylvia Plath's "Daddy". how they work within the context of a love song escapes me, though - the poem is about a woman with an Electra complex and an explicit desire to commit symbolic patricide in order to lift the oppressive legacy of her father from her shoulders. only Davey could get away with something like that, I suppose.
halo ape..if u read this..im in NO way at all trying to contradict what you said i just really dont understand how Sylvia Plath's poem, Daddy relates to this song. You seem very intellectual, and im not very smart so if you could explain how they compare, it would be great. Thanks
promise ring as the best band ever!
strange no one mentioned the obvious shout out to T.S. Eliot's Prufrock with the line... "measuring time in spoons". That's right out of the Love Song... Davey we miss you. This song is wonderful. I makes me want to fall in love. The chorus just drives me nuts.
the line "from one june to september you're all i remember" kind of reminds me of a summer crush...
Yeah I read the Plath poem as well and there are definite allusions to the words from the poem in a lot of the songs. I had no idea to what any of it meant until I read the poem, yet now the songs are even more confusing. Still my favorite promise ring song though
i had always noticed the 'daddy' allusions in this song [i.e. 'ach, du.' and 'i thought everyone was you.' = 'i thought every german was you.'], but i hadn't noticed the allusion in 'a broken tenor' until you pointed that out. tpr is my favorite band, but i definitely agree that the newer stuff lacks lyrically.
I always used to think i was wrong singing vanilla almond tea. my life has finally been affirmed.
p.s it's not just daddy. the line "throats of our wrists" comes out of another poem of hers, i can't remember the name of it.
just to add to easttexas' p.s.... the poem with Throats of our wrists from by Sylvia Plath is called "Stings" poemhunter.com/poem/stings/