| Joanna Newsom – Kingfisher Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't know, but this song to me is one of the eeriest, saddest songs I ever heard, for me it's not just symbolic, but also very much about atomic war and the state the world is in, or possibly could be in, where it's far too late to say sorry when the bombs have already gone off, 'the clouds tick' and everything is going to be destroyed...It's impossible to say sorry to the one you love because it's impossibly hypocritical, any involvement hurts everybody and you can't spare the one you love... The second part is like some kind of after-life, a boat to another world, post-apocalyptic... I don't know what the reference is to kingfishers is, but according to wikipedia, in Borneo the kingfisher is seen as a sign of bad luck at war and if the warrior sees it on the way to war, he should return home... Lambs are also important...There is a verse in the bible about lambs lying with lions, about the day when supposedly humans should all live in peace with one another... The first verse is also reminiscent of the bible, being called to make the maker, there are so many themes of death... It fits, somehow, with the feeling of the whole album, so much destruction and pain and violence that the many women portrayed in the songs try to bear, but at some point it's enough, "I can bear a lot but not this pall" (pall being a cover for a coffin) --- maybe it's about the death of hope, too, as the second-last song, before she packs away her dresses, hats and shoes and gives up waiting for her lover... It's all "too late"... |
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