| Smog – Your Wedding Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| As her wedding day approaches and I slide deeper into alcoholism, this song rings truer and truer. | |
| Smog – All Your Women Things Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've thought about this song for many years. It's one of the most heart-wrenching songs in Bill's discography as well as in general. My interpretation of it might be a little unorthodox but bear with me. There was always something unnerving about this. Of course it's about lost love, missing someone, recollecting on the former state of a household with that person in it followed by change and acceptance, longing, and reflecting. There are, however, abnormalities in it considering Bill's personality. The "women things" he's describing are incredibly ornate and incredibly "womanly". Bill comes off as a simple recluse, someone who wouldn't necessarily be involved with such a city girl as the woman he's describing. The haunting melody adds more of a sense of disconnect between the woman he misses and the memories of who she was. The particular line that I find jarring is "Oh all of these things I gathered them And I made a dolly I made a dolly A spread-eagle dolly Out of your frilly things" I'm torn between an interpretation here. Of course he could be referring to a physical or nonphysical shrine of this woman, or the "dolly" (a lifeless, adorned, spread-eagle thing) could be referring to a baseless romance (maybe a prostitute) Bill (or the narrator) is seeking solace in during his time of grief. This lifeless woman is no more than a dolly; a shell of what he once loved in the woman. "Why couldn't I have loved you This tenderly When you were here In the flesh So tenderly" He's wishing his purely sexual encounters with this new woman were as devout and passionate as his encounters with the previous woman. Ultimately the "women things" scattered around the room seem to be of or relating to lingerie or some fancy women's wear. The "false nails" mentioned just don't coincide with a woman Bill would be intimately involved with on a personal level. The women things scattered around the room remind him a former lover and the baseless sex he or the narrator is engaging in is only to supplement that feeling of loss. I'm sure most people who depart from a significant relationship can relate to this song/my interpretation. You try seeing other people but the artificial feeling of forced intimacy just reminds you of you past lover, year after long year. This, as I stated, is a very unorthodox interpretation but I have always found something unnerving about the song. If this is too much of a longshot, I still believe that this song is both brooding and beautiful. |
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