| The Replacements – Androgynous Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Indiesongwriter:24798] Good one. I've always had a third interpretation with the 'closer than you know': since it's related to 'love each other so', which is a universal emotion, the singer seems to say that Dick and Jane are not so different from you, the listener. | |
| CocoRosie – Promise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I figured it's about a starting relationship, both on an emotional as as a sexual level. "And if you take me inside And you give me a place to hide and cry I'll bathe you in the crystal light That sleeps between my thighs" If I open up my heart to you, and you do the same to me, and we'll become emotionally connected, I will also give you beautiful physical love. That's what it seems to say. Most other lines seem to describe the emotional connection between the lovers. But sex and lust can harm emotional connections. Therefore, "Tempt my werewolf not to run", or, as I interpret it, I'll try to have the person I am at night (the physical lover, the sex) not to destroy the daytime person, the emotionally connected lover. |
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| CocoRosie – Terrible Angels Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I am still puzzled by the paragraph on Freud, Rilke, Rimbaud and Morisson. Rilke had a relationship with a psycho-analyst named Lou Andreas-Salom, who was also good friends with Freud. But I don't see how that would be a clue. Initially, I thought the song was about women in general, who are both beautiful (like angels) but also can have terrible characters. Rilke had a troublesome relationship with his mother, who dressed him up as a girl when he was young. With Freud's famous theories on castration anxiety, this might correlate with Rilke's loving but disturbed view on women. Rimbaud was gay, so he never paid women no mind. Morisson, at the end, from a completely different era than the other three, was a promiscuous loverboy. He had his elevator angels (notice the plural), who would come down to him, and have contacts, without the complexes of the other ones. This is all still far from coherent for me, and maybe I'm on the wrong track completely. I just thought I'd put it here, so maybe someone else could do something with these clues. |
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| Ryan Adams – When the Stars Go Blue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm surprised to see the lyric interpretations that this song is about a special someone. I always understood it as an expression of loneliness, where the 'you' is not someone, but it's directly addressing the listener, like: I tried all the stuff that you and other people some to get excitement from, but still I feel lonely. What do you do when you're sad like that? | |
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