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| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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She's definitely singing about a woman lusting after a woman. The castrated guys part refers to how straight men assume that women's bodies are on display for them, but really we are showing off for our [female] lovers, thus the guys are castrated because they can't get with lesbians. |
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| Kevin Devine – Ballgame Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the second verse is him trying to put his alcoholism (and no, that's not too strang a word) into perspective: he (and many other white boys with guitars) are singing songs (and potentially making money) about how hard life is while other people are off getting killed. |
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| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I really do think that this song is about a ship, given the thematics of the rest of the album. Not all songs are about heterosexual love, especially Decemberists songs!! The image of summer being swallowed by a wave not only speaks ot the passing of time, but also evokes a beautiful image of the reflection of the "length of lights" (stars? a cityscape?) being disturbed. |
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| Tori Amos – Your Cloud Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it is more about re-finding yourself after leaving a relationship -- and not necessarily a physical one, either and acknowledging the influence that that person has had on your life, and maybe even honouring it. I get the sense that the person she is talking to doesn't get that. This is a very wise song. |
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| Tori Amos – Mother Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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You are all right in a way. Marriage is a form of prostitution, and this sing is about a female losing her power in that relationship. Specifically, she talks about being "poisoned against the moon", a refernce to menstratiuon which is often thought of as the source for "female power." How does a woman find her way back into her power after she has lost it? The dancing is the peformance of the marriage, leave the light on to remind the woman of who she was, what her power was, before she got lost in the marriage. But how can the mother leave the light on if she is trapped in a marriage as well? I really like how the image of the car -- which represents the transition to marriage for me -- changes from a green limosine to a black chariot. It looks good at the beginning, but then it changes. |
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