| The Thermals – Here's Your Future Lyrics | 7 years ago |
|
More broadly, this song is about how our future isn't always driven by our own actions and decisions - but are more often driven by external forces. These forces set the limiting framework that we can act within. Here the Thermals have named these external forces "God", speaking through parable of how "Noah", us, are dealt a hand that we must simply play; as "no one can breathe underwater", no one can exist in our world without submitting to the limitations of our environment. "Jesus" is representative of the right we are born with, free will - posing the question: if we are subject to our environment, how free are we really to choose? How much of our future is truly our own? |
|
| The Clientele – Reflections After Jane Lyrics | 7 years ago |
|
I personally think this song is about receding into an apathetic outlook... Reflections after Jane referring to the reflective state following smoking pot (Mary Jane). He's in awe of natural or physical beauty, unable to connect with the people who surround him - merely counting the workers rather than identifying with each or any of them. As for the motif of sleep, I think anyone that's smoked a good amount of the stuff can attest to the fact that weed makes you sleep - but not always restfully, often leading to you waking up tired. As for starving his life into a deeper sleep - this is playing with the idea that your existence is divided between your life (being awake) and sleep... Unable to find rest, we see our speaker devote himself more thoroughly to portion. This song precisely captures the stoned melancholia of the everyday... I think "sad" is the wrong word to describe it. |
|
| Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Lyrics | 7 years ago |
|
"Take off your bandaid cause I don't believe in touchdowns" This is one of my favorite Wilco songs because it captures the vulnerability needed to be in a real, committed, relationship. No serious relationship is a touchdown; it's a system that has losses and wins, problems and benefits. Tweedy is asking his partner to open herself to him - to remove her bandaids, let her wounds breathe. However, this also opens one to the possibility of a broken heart. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is not about Tweedy spitefully snubbing his partner because he can - but is his attempt at unflinching openness, while admitting the possibility that this could simply drive a wedge. |
|
| Archers of Loaf – Web in Front Lyrics | 8 years ago |
|
"You're the web in front of a favorite lie" The key here is that it's "A favorite lie", not one specific to the Archer or to the girl he's addressing - the lie is happiness. In this case, it's happiness with this girl - he is getting caught in her web as he pursues this "lie". "Stuck a pin in your backbone, spoke it down from there" To stick a pin in something is to stop it. He's coming to the realization that this relationship is escalating on the basis of something not real - of this "favorite lie". The Archers stop this, and he talks her down - he's breaking up with her. "All I ever wanted was to be your spine." He just wants to support her. |
|
| The National – Heavenfaced Lyrics | 8 years ago |
|
Heaven is an end - it's the end. It's also a euphoric state of being - "I'm in heaven". "Can't face heaven, all heavenfaced.": He can't face that his relationship has become cold, dead, because he is still caught in this euphoric love - he's still "heavenfaced". "She's a griever, my believer.": She grieves a lost aspect of their relationship, believing that it can come back - that He can be what he once was, that "He" can come back. Berninger sings about being trapped in a nostalgic relationship; they stay together in memory of their heavenly history - unable to face their relationship's end. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.