| The Decemberists – Annan Water Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Oh nice! Never noticed that! |
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| The Decemberists – Shiny Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree with you, but I could also believe that it's about a girl cheating on the boy. However, my initial reaction was that it was about rape. | |
| The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| So the song is really about hardships of a people, the revolution of a people. Our people. The "Come hell" is about that if we don't fight against such things, war will break out, the world will spiral into a deeper pit of hell than it's already in. | |
| The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| That's what they sing about, the hardships of people, death and war. | |
| The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| No, it is a Revolution song, you're right. | |
| The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| So yeah, the song is about all that stuff, you know war and politics and stuff, blah blah blah (I'm sparing you a ramble) But there's this one part that really made me think; "Bride of quiet, bride of all unquiet things, bride of quiet, bride of hell." Right there, Colin was talking about how being quiet, not standing up for things, brings hell. And so is whining about things, but whining doesn't make things better. In other words; "Don't stay silent, do something about it. Fight. This is why we fight, to make things better, so that when we die, we will die free, with our arms unbound." | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I understand the rest of the song, but can you explain these lines? "Margaret, array the rocks around the hole before we're sinking A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking And painting rings around your eyes, these peppered holes too filled with crying A whispered weight upon the tattered down where you and I were lying Tell me now, tell me this, a forest's son, a river's daughter A willow on the will-o'-wisp, our ghost to wander all of the water" |
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| The Decemberists – Rise to Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's kind of talking to mother earth saying that we can hear her and we are in tune with her. To prove my point: "Big mountain, wide river, there's an ancient pull." Then there's also; "These tree trunks, these stream beds, Leave our bellies full They sing out, I am gonna stand my ground You rise to me and I'll blow you down I am gonna stand my ground You rise to me and I'll blow you down" That's saying that that is what the Earth says. When it says "You rise to me and I'll blow you down" I think that means that if you try to hurt the Earth, the Earth will fight back |
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| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No,because the queen actually said at one point "And you have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child To abduct and abuse and to render her rift and defiled But the river is deep to the banks and the water is wild But I will fly you to the far side!" Why would his mother help him if he wants to get to Margret if he could change back into William any moment? And why, in the song Margret in Captivity, would Margret have to call out to William "Can you hear me love?" |
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| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| OK.... Well I kinda think that's the point, you know, showing that our society isn't really a democracy, it's a monarchy (yeah, I know, I sound paranoid, blah blah blah, whatever) and plus, The Decemberists are awesome!! | |
| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Oh, we aren't? Well explain why the government thinks they're the best. This isn't about us as a people, it's about our sick, messed up system. | |
| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it is one of they're deeper songs. It's not just "oh, lets not have wars!" it's saying what EFFECT war has on people. The 16 military wives and the wrinkly fingers are the children and the wives of the people going off to war. But not only that, this song is pointing out that America (the government, or corporations or whoever) don't care about the people. They don't think before they act. And this is reflecting on our children. | |
| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Agreed, the school emphasizes that human kind is very violent, even our children our doing it! | |
| The Decemberists – Leslie Ann Levine Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| not all the time., sometimes there's an E and sometimes there's isn't, but in this song, it's an E | |
| The Decemberists – The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Well, this is a fairytale. Think about Rumpelstiltskin, the girl's father gave her up to spin straw, knowing she could not, and knowing only to well she would die if she could not spin straw into gold. Look at Zeus in Greek myth. He'd kill his children all the time, I think it's just human nature to think up stories like that. | |
| The Decemberists – The Rake's Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The Decemberists – The Rake's Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is about a man called Rake, a little creep, may I add. At first, he seems perfectly happy. He married when he was 21. He was happy because it "whetted my thirst" because he wanted to make love, and he was able to do that as much as possible with his newly wed. Then, she began to have a bunch of children, and he was left with three as his wife and two children had died. He murdered the two girls by poisoning her and he then drowned his little girl, Dawn. The third, Isaiah, who fought his father, was reduced to ash after Rake killed him. |
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| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| No, that may just be to heighten intensity, or maybe to show a foreshadow of Rake (listen to Rake's song is you don't know who that is) | |
| The Decemberists – Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| his raped lover | |
| The Decemberists – Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song has the explicit meaning, but a beautiful song, that even though this girl Margret is pregnant, she wants to make love with her partner. She asks the leaves and the trees to make a bed for the two of them. Then, she asks nature to call him to her so they will be happy. Her love then calls out to her, trying to find her raped lover. | |
| The Decemberists – The Abduction of Margaret Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Margret was taken by Rake and he bound her hands, throwing her across the back of a horse. He then crosses the river. | |
| Kate Bush – Get Out of My House Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about that dark male part of her. She's talking to the part of her that has been torturing mentally, maybe making her choose the wrong choices and making her suffer the consequences. If you look at it in that "Angel and the devil on your shoulder" sense, it seems like the devil on her shoulder. She's telling the devil to go away, to " get out of her house" or her mind. | |
| Kate Bush – The Red Shoes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is an obvious reference to the Grimm Brothers story of the Red Shoes. It actually says in the song; "She gotta dance, she gotta dance And she can't stop 'till them shoes come off These shoes do, a kind of voodoo They're gonna make her dance 'till her legs fall off" In the story, this girl gets these shoes. She finds out that she can't take the shoes off her feet. So everywhere she goes, she dances, and she can't control the dancing. In many of the versions of this story, she dies by burning to death because her dancing was so passionate that it set her alight. In others, she danced so much that her legs fell off. |
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| Regina Spektor – Après Moi Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think that this song is about an injured soldier on the battle field. He is addressing his foes, saying that he will protect his people to the end. He states that it's not his choice, that he fights for his country with all of the strength of the people. He also says "Après moi, le deluge, after me comes the flood" meaning, after he dies in battle, more will come, more will fight for the innocent. This also is about a revolution, poor against the wealthy who have more rights and more food, clothing, riches and shelter than the poor. Saying " "After me comes the flood" means that the poor will rise up. Also, when it says; "Be afraid of the lame, they’ll inherit you legs Be afraid of the old, they’ll inherit your souls Be afraid of the cold, they’ll inherit your blood" It's again talking about the peasants, saying that the rich should fear them because they will rise up, they will fight for their freedom, and they will inherit their warmth, their shelter and they will take the guilt and shame of the rich. |
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| Arcade Fire – Abraham's Daughter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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First, Abraham takes Isaac up to the mountain to be slaughtered and his nameless daughter hides, feeling unable to do nothing. Then, an angel sees her and asks her what her name it is. She says that she has none. The angel asks why, because names are a very powerful thing. She then sees that she can save her brother and she raises her bow and points it at her father's head, asking him to let go of Isaac. Her father flips out, asking why she would disobey god, but the angel agrees and tells Abraham to loose Isaac. In real life, people stand by and refuse to help what we care about, but others stand up and take the risk to go past those who rule us to save what we care about. |
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| Arcade Fire – Abraham's Daughter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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First, Abraham takes Isaac up to the mountain to be slaughtered and his nameless daughter hides, feeling unable to do nothing. Then, an angel sees her and asks her what her name it is. She says that she has none. The angel asks why, because names are a very powerful thing. She then sees that she can save her brother and she raises her bow and points it at her father's head, asking him to let go of Isaac. Her father flips out, asking why she would disobey god, but the angel agrees and tells Abraham to loose Isaac. In real life, people stand by and refuse to help what we care about, but others stand up and take the risk to go past those who rule us to save what we care about. |
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