| Tom Petty – You Don't Know How It Feels Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yeah, well you have problems with spelling, asshat. "Grammer?" | |
| The Shins – A Comet Appears Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| If there were an intelligent God, there wouldn't be a need for songs like this one :) | |
| The Shins – A Comet Appears Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think you're dead-on, and that's a very insightful analysis... but I also see a few more overt references to religion, and the author's disillusionment with religion (which really just ties in to the rest of what you've written). The "they" in "They shone a chlorine light one..." is "the church," or I suppose just organized religion in general. The church makes a huge fuss about "a host of individual 'sins' " (homosexuality, pre-marital sex, etc.), but ignore the real problems in the world. Close your eyes to corral a virtue (a reference to prayer) Is this fooling anyone else? (author's realization what a crock at all is, and wondering how people could seriously buy into this stuff) Never worked so long and hard To cement a failure (A lot of kids growing up cling to the stuff they are taught in church, because it is the only "meaning" they can see. As they grow up they start to see it all for what it is, but try "long and hard" to cling to it anyways, because it's all they've got. But the author has obviously not held on, despite how "long and hard" he tried). We can blow on our thumbs and posture, (Another reference to prayer, and just religious gestures in general [one's thumbs would typically be near one's mouth during prayer, especially if you're silently speaking into your hands, thinking you're speaking to God] Author is saying - hey, you can pray and otherwise "posture" as if you've got the answer all you want - ) But the lonely are such delicate things The wind from a wasp could blow them Into the sea With stones on their feet Lost to the light and the loving we need. [But the human condition is such a lonely one, that it's easy to push people into religion or for them simply to fall into it - people are so desperate for answers that "the wind from a wasp" could blow them into it. But, clearly the author believes that religion is not the answer people need - and once they're in and they THINK they have THE ANSWER - one they can cling to....they are forever 'sunk' so to speak ("stones on their feet") - forever lost to the quest for a legitimate answer to the human condition, and forever lost to the "loving" that humanity really needs) But yeah, like I said.....I see a few more references to religion thrown in here and there throughout the song....but either way, this is a fantastic analysis of a very beautiful and very sad song. |
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| Dashboard Confessional – Matters of Blood and Connection Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yyyyeah...this is the second song I've heard people referring to as being anti-bush. Little Bombs is a bit of a stretch, and this an even bigger stretch. Like 99% of the lyrics make absolutely no sense if you apply them to G.W. Bush, other than the fact that he and his father are both rich. | |
| Dashboard Confessional – Little Bombs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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That's an interesting interpretation about this being an anti-bush song Justin....the only reason I can't buy it is because of the first two lines "How can you ask for forgiveness? How can you say that your crimes are victimless?"...because if there's one thing we all know about Bush, it's that he has never/will never ask for forgiveness or admit to any 'crimes', no matter how 'victimless.' A lot of the rest of it does fit pretty well though.... Anyways, this song and "Where there's gold" are amazing...the whole cd is very much a return to form - not just with the heavy use of the acoustic, but also with all of the open tuning that he's finally using again. |
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| Dashboard Confessional – Where There's Gold Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I was there the first time they played this song live, it was fantastic....I think it's gonna become a mainstay of the solo sets. | |
| Brand New – Yeah (Sowing Season) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's difficult to say that a song can really mean anything if he can just completely change the lyrics while keeping mostly the same melody... | |
| Tom Petty – Free Fallin' Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I heard that this song is about some girl who killed herself by jumping off of a building in Gainesville FL, anyone else hear that? | |
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