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The Last Of The Unplucked Gems Lyrics
Violins and tambourines
This is what we think they mean
It's hard to say, it's sad but true
I'm kinda dumb and so are you
When the mystique varies thus
You can send a man to bury us
It's hard to say, it's sad but true
I'm kinda dumb and so are you
The last of the unplucked gems
The last of the unplucked gems
The last of the unplucked gems
This is what we think they mean
It's hard to say, it's sad but true
I'm kinda dumb and so are you
You can send a man to bury us
It's hard to say, it's sad but true
I'm kinda dumb and so are you
The last of the unplucked gems
The last of the unplucked gems
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Submitted by
black_cow_of_death On Jan 26, 2002
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It's about how people suck the magic and mystery out of songs by defining their meanings: violins and tambourines, and this is what we think they mean.
What's the point in creating art if people are just going to come along and say, "it means this?" Might as well send a man to bury us.
The last of the unplucked gems? It was, until I came along and said, "it means this."
i feel that it has to do with elite status
being at the hip show in syracuse this past weekend (nov.7/09) they played this amazing tune and got me thinkin bout it.
i relate this song to Hip shows performed in Canada vs those performed in the US (these being 'the last of the unplucked gems')
if i had to choose between a group of hip shows in the states and in Canada then i would obviously choose the canadian shows, but not to say the shows in the states are bad they're almost just as incredible but not as breathtaking as Canadian shows.....
the last chosen (plucked) out of a group of elite.
I dont know what this song means.. but, by far, it is the best song
A tune on dying...makes sense, they are still a cult band of sorts down below number 49...if they become massively famous, send a man to bury them. An oddly shorter pre-version of the At the Hundreth Meridian
Nice interpretation, wonderdog. I've enjoyed this song for many years and you've just added a new dimension to it.
I was at that show... it was my first... i would love to see them in canada i'm just across the river...
Violins and tambourines hypnotize.
The last of the unplucked gems refers to the massive gold deposit located somewhere within the Glacier National Park of Canada.
Quartz creek ;-)
I think this song is just a very simple concept, meaning it is what the title says. Gems that went “unplucked” that he couldn’t work into other songs. The two verses are just lines that Gordie couldn’t fit into other songs on this album. Watching interviews he talked a lot about how his writing style involved just taking lines and verses he really liked from his notebooks and fitting them into songs. This song feels like it is coming from the mi date of a songwriter struggling to make lyrics work in a song.