I'm not sure if the lyrics are correct. This is what I hear:
I'm not sure if the lyrics are correct. This is what I hear:
The laugh that cuts cold / Now is in the past
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Maybe it's transfixed
On something else to do
The laugh that cuts cold / Now is in the past
.....
Maybe it's transfixed
On something else to do
Analysis / interpretation
Analysis / interpretation
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Hope Sandoval either isn't keen on grammar or she doesn't care about it ("Among My Swan" is one example. Among is plural; swan is singular. "Unreflected" is also strange because reflect is a verb, but she uses it as an adjective - the adjective form would be reflective or reflecting. Poetic license, I suppose.)
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Hope Sandoval either isn't keen on grammar or she doesn't care about it ("Among My Swan" is one example. Among is plural; swan is singular. "Unreflected" is also strange because reflect is a verb, but she uses it as an adjective - the adjective form would be reflective or reflecting. Poetic license, I suppose.)
For whatever reason this song makes me think of...
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For whatever reason this song makes me think of fame, perhaps influenced by a comment a friend of hers once said: some audience members had thrown tomatoes at the band when they first started to play gigs. (The laugh that cuts cold now is in the past; in our memories, we don't have much to say.)
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2a. Now that the band has achieved a modicum of fame, she has probably experienced a few hanger-ons (Follow anybody / Is that what you do? / Maybe it transfixed on something else to do) Perhaps the person in question is a follower or maybe he or she just wants to engage in activity, meaningless or otherwise.
2b. But at bottom, the band (and fame) isn't significant. Everyone eventually becomes a speck in the dustbin of history. (Now we know what we'll be in the past / Another story / Another life that's left) Perhaps the last phrase is an incorrect way of stating: another life that HAS left)
2c. Unreflected is anyone's guess, but it could mean that the feeling in question is a realization that one won't shine. Perhaps it's another way of expressing that dull feeling you get when you think of mortality (the unreflected feeling / Of a shortened final soul).
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Another interpretation is that it involves a death of a friend.
No one has commented on it yet? This song is beautiful and I have no idea what it's about. XD
I'm not sure if the lyrics are correct. This is what I hear:
I'm not sure if the lyrics are correct. This is what I hear:
The laugh that cuts cold / Now is in the past ..... Maybe it's transfixed On something else to do
The laugh that cuts cold / Now is in the past ..... Maybe it's transfixed On something else to do
Analysis / interpretation
Analysis / interpretation
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Hope Sandoval either isn't keen on grammar or she doesn't care about it ("Among My Swan" is one example. Among is plural; swan is singular. "Unreflected" is also strange because reflect is a verb, but she uses it as an adjective - the adjective form would be reflective or reflecting. Poetic license, I suppose.)
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Hope Sandoval either isn't keen on grammar or she doesn't care about it ("Among My Swan" is one example. Among is plural; swan is singular. "Unreflected" is also strange because reflect is a verb, but she uses it as an adjective - the adjective form would be reflective or reflecting. Poetic license, I suppose.)
For whatever reason this song makes me think of...
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For whatever reason this song makes me think of fame, perhaps influenced by a comment a friend of hers once said: some audience members had thrown tomatoes at the band when they first started to play gigs. (The laugh that cuts cold now is in the past; in our memories, we don't have much to say.)
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2a. Now that the band has achieved a modicum of fame, she has probably experienced a few hanger-ons (Follow anybody / Is that what you do? / Maybe it transfixed on something else to do) Perhaps the person in question is a follower or maybe he or she just wants to engage in activity, meaningless or otherwise.
2b. But at bottom, the band (and fame) isn't significant. Everyone eventually becomes a speck in the dustbin of history. (Now we know what we'll be in the past / Another story / Another life that's left) Perhaps the last phrase is an incorrect way of stating: another life that HAS left)
2c. Unreflected is anyone's guess, but it could mean that the feeling in question is a realization that one won't shine. Perhaps it's another way of expressing that dull feeling you get when you think of mortality (the unreflected feeling / Of a shortened final soul).
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