| Andrew Bird – Plasticities Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The part about the whale in the cubicle is about being confined. The image is of a huge animal crammed in a tiny space. "Nails under your cuticles" is another image conveying the same idea of confinement. You normally think of fingernails as being exposed (free), but he is describing the part confined under the dead skin of the cuticles. The chorus follows the same theme, where the "neural walls" I think represent figurative walls built to confine your mind. Plasticities is like plastic cities, the antithesis of the "dying cities" of culture described in the first part of the chorus, where everything is plastic, prepackaged, impersonal, and efficient. I think the song is mostly a statement about the confinement of the music industry, both on the art it produces and on the public in general as listeners, to whom it is easier to sell music that can be neatly classified and marketed, and that is simple enough to understand immediately. I think the song can also be applied to the culture as a whole, though. |
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| Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the girl in the song commited suicide. He keeps using words that conjur up images of death-"dead end tracks," "gather round the home she will rest," "graving dreams," etc. He asks for her soul to be healed, and for her to be carried by his angel. He also refers to "these last days." Things like this make me think she has died, like btmilligan said. The verse: her tears fell on her pages found me out on her words i don't know what to do or say really makes me think it was suicide. "Her tears fell on her pages/found me out/on her words" sounds like he is describing a suicide note to me, and "I don't know what to do or say" seems a fitting reaction to him reading the note. Also, he is so full of regret the whole song, and keeps saying sorry that he didn't love her or care enough, like he feels that is the reason she died. |
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