| mewithoutYou – A Stick, a Carrot and String Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think there's a quick "but" before the "there's a sign on the barn" line. That's what it sounds like at least, and it makes sense... There's this outcast goat... BUT he's welcome in the barn. |
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| mewithoutYou – Allah, Allah, Allah Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I definitely think they encourage coexistence. Allah (meaning the one and only true God) is definitely forgiving and loving and peaceful. :) Though you can't ignore that flooded throughout some of their songs they claim God's forgiveness and peace can come to the world only through Jesus. ("he came to make right what man made wrong" in stick, carrot, string for example) |
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| mewithoutYou – The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| *the fire could understand. :) | |
| mewithoutYou – The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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no problem :) I think those first few lines just exist to help the song make some sense. They just tell you that there's this fire... The king wants to know about it so he sends others to investigate. Both of these however, though they see themselves as great and courageous, are humbled and come back with nothing. You have to let the fire consume you to truly experience it. (The Bible is filled with the concept of "dieing to yourself", of being consumed by God, etc.) Then the King either figures it out or simply decides he'll have to go himself, in faith. So he abandons his place in the world, his family, and everything and is consumed by the fire. The last line is definitely not sarcastic I think. Jesus taught of eternal life. our beloved's not dead, but his highness instead, has been utterly changed into fire." It's a song about abandoning everything, including your own life, for the sake of God. hopefully that makes sense... There's a lot of imagery that... only someone who has experienced the fire could explain. :) |
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| mewithoutYou – Brownish Spider Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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He explained it a little bit at a concert... "everything i'd thought i'd learned ambition and illusion turned to drawings on a loose leaf sheet of figs and fruits i couldn't eat" He was saying how you can't draw a picture of something you want (the figs and fruits) and eat it. It's a picture. And illusion. It's not real. (By the way, I think he uses different words there sometimes. The idea is they're nice foods) And that's what the song is about. Looking to be satisfied through people and things that can't. (despite what you may think) That's basically how he explained it anyways. About the spider and leaf part at the end... I'm not sure. I guess it fits into that somehow. Any ideas? |
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| mewithoutYou – Yellow Spider Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't understand all if it but in all three songs there's the spider and the leaf, they're connected by the color the interesting thing about the leaves is that they turn from yellow to orange to brown, then there is no leaf. So its like fall, they're dieing. And to me a spider has a negative connotation. They make webs to trap their prey. Something that gets stuck in a spiders web has no hope, it just waits until its death. So I think these songs show the progression of doubt (lack of faith) dying off. make sense? |
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