| Iron & Wine – Resurrection Fern Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I just remembered a book from my childhood that reminded me of this song. Has anyone ever read "where the red fern grows"? It's a fairly popular book but I just realized that it's got some similarities to this song. That's all, cheers. | |
| Iron & Wine – Lovesong of the Buzzard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Holy shit Sam Beam is a genius. Learning about this song gave me the chills and made my eyes water. This song is definitely optimistic...to me atleast. This is from wikipedia: There is a Christian fable that proclaims that the cross used to crucify Jesus was constructed of dogwood.[3] As the fable goes, during the time of Jesus, the dogwood was larger and stronger than it is today. After his crucifixion, Jesus changed the plant to its current form: he shortened it and twisted its branches as to assure an end to the use of the plant for the construction of crosses, and he transformed its inflorescence into the form of the crucifixion itself. The four white bracts are cross-shaped, which are said to represent the four corners of the cross, each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail; the red stamens of the flower, represents Jesus' crown of thorns; and the clustered red fruit represent his blood. The first stanza seems to represent that there were bad times in the past, "yesterday the solace of a poison fish." and good times in the future: "tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips." There's so much more meaning in this song...I'll have to think about it and come back to it later. |
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| Iron & Wine – Resurrection Fern Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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songyone, awesome interpretation, I never thought of it in that way. I sometimes get the feeling that the song is about someone who is losing their faith in God, as so many other IW songs. "When sister Laurie says, "Amen" We won't hear anything: The ten-car trains will take that word That fledgling bird " this quote seems like they are praying and praying and God is not answering their prayers. Their prayers are "fledgling birds" that never really take off. Also baby's breath is a name for a plant that grows in the south, not sure what its supposed to mean in this context. |
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