We've chosen this as our wedding song, to walk down the aisle to. Taking the song very simply the idea of 'us' is very important to us(!), so we focused on the idea of us and our love 'they built a statue of us' etc. Someone on this site said they saw it as a love so big they built a statue of it, which kind of matches our idea- an optimistic view of this beautiful song :)
Lots of our favourite songs are hard to fit into a wedding because of unrelated lyrics but as always they're open to interpretation. Only had to totally veto a few! Love love love Regina
Interesting. You can certainly interpret the song however you want, but I really thing this song is more of a political commentary than a love song. I suppose if you view your relationship in that context: living in a den of thieves, blamed for wrongdoings, a rusting monument, then actually it could be a romantic song, if slightly melancholy song. Nothin wrong with a little melancholy! ;)
Interesting. You can certainly interpret the song however you want, but I really thing this song is more of a political commentary than a love song. I suppose if you view your relationship in that context: living in a den of thieves, blamed for wrongdoings, a rusting monument, then actually it could be a romantic song, if slightly melancholy song. Nothin wrong with a little melancholy! ;)
And hey, lots of people think Flightless Bird, American Mouth is a romantic song!
And hey, lots of people think Flightless Bird, American Mouth is a romantic song!
I like your comment. The majority of the comments here point out the song as a social and political commentary. They are mostly very valid and probably correct. But music is not just about lyrics, its about how it sounds too. And this song has a very sweet romantic lovely sound. Well, in my opinion and apparently yours, anyway. So why put political commentary in this format? Perhaps its somehow connecting the relationship of these two people with the relationship between certain countries. Im not sure though. Well done for exposing the romantic side of the song though because...
I like your comment. The majority of the comments here point out the song as a social and political commentary. They are mostly very valid and probably correct. But music is not just about lyrics, its about how it sounds too. And this song has a very sweet romantic lovely sound. Well, in my opinion and apparently yours, anyway. So why put political commentary in this format? Perhaps its somehow connecting the relationship of these two people with the relationship between certain countries. Im not sure though. Well done for exposing the romantic side of the song though because it is definitely present and a stranger to the song would never see it coming if he looked through most of the comments here. I'm gonna go through the rest of the comments now. Perhaps someone better explains this contrast or similarity between the two 'aspects' that this song seems to radiate.
We've chosen this as our wedding song, to walk down the aisle to. Taking the song very simply the idea of 'us' is very important to us(!), so we focused on the idea of us and our love 'they built a statue of us' etc. Someone on this site said they saw it as a love so big they built a statue of it, which kind of matches our idea- an optimistic view of this beautiful song :) Lots of our favourite songs are hard to fit into a wedding because of unrelated lyrics but as always they're open to interpretation. Only had to totally veto a few! Love love love Regina
Interesting. You can certainly interpret the song however you want, but I really thing this song is more of a political commentary than a love song. I suppose if you view your relationship in that context: living in a den of thieves, blamed for wrongdoings, a rusting monument, then actually it could be a romantic song, if slightly melancholy song. Nothin wrong with a little melancholy! ;)
Interesting. You can certainly interpret the song however you want, but I really thing this song is more of a political commentary than a love song. I suppose if you view your relationship in that context: living in a den of thieves, blamed for wrongdoings, a rusting monument, then actually it could be a romantic song, if slightly melancholy song. Nothin wrong with a little melancholy! ;)
And hey, lots of people think Flightless Bird, American Mouth is a romantic song!
And hey, lots of people think Flightless Bird, American Mouth is a romantic song!
I like your comment. The majority of the comments here point out the song as a social and political commentary. They are mostly very valid and probably correct. But music is not just about lyrics, its about how it sounds too. And this song has a very sweet romantic lovely sound. Well, in my opinion and apparently yours, anyway. So why put political commentary in this format? Perhaps its somehow connecting the relationship of these two people with the relationship between certain countries. Im not sure though. Well done for exposing the romantic side of the song though because...
I like your comment. The majority of the comments here point out the song as a social and political commentary. They are mostly very valid and probably correct. But music is not just about lyrics, its about how it sounds too. And this song has a very sweet romantic lovely sound. Well, in my opinion and apparently yours, anyway. So why put political commentary in this format? Perhaps its somehow connecting the relationship of these two people with the relationship between certain countries. Im not sure though. Well done for exposing the romantic side of the song though because it is definitely present and a stranger to the song would never see it coming if he looked through most of the comments here. I'm gonna go through the rest of the comments now. Perhaps someone better explains this contrast or similarity between the two 'aspects' that this song seems to radiate.