| Nada Surf – Always Love Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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It is interesting that I always took the first lines to be "to make a mountain of your life is just a choice" Like, the way they are separated it's like he's saying that he's about to (or some people have) "make a mountain of" (exaggerate) the idea of "your life is just a choice" That is, this is a stupid assumption - life is determined in so many ways that life is not just about choice. Then the rest follows like in Fearabbit's interpretation But then by browsing through the comments I understand now that the most direct reading would be to make a mountain of your life is just a choice So I'm conflicted, because I do like fearabbit's interpretation but I don't know how it squares with this reading of the opening lives. |
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| The Killers – Human Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[sondralynn:21119] Yeah I also found the link between dancers and puppets very weak. | |
| Fall Out Boy – The Phoenix Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Ok, I am BAFFLED no one has seen it this way yet. I UNDERSTAND this has to do with their album and change of style and whatnot. But it is also about war, and how it fucks up a generation. "You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground" This is like an excessive young unemployed population during crisis. They'll accept serving in war so they have an income / a net / a purpose. "We are the jack-o-lanterns in July, setting fire to the sky" Weird reference for July, I think it's just for setting; to clearly point out their presence is wrong / out of place (like the army is invading another country and it's not supposed to be doing that). Setting fire to the sky, well, they're raiding the place with bombs. "Here, here comes this rising tide, so come on Put on your war paint" Self-explanatory corollary to the last one "Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies Silver clouds with grey linings"" Interesting delivery of the lines, maybe portraying the confusion and frenzy of the front; ends contrasting the hope to die (let this end) with hope for better days. "So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked One maniac at a time, we will take it back" ... Or so they're given as a reason by the government for the horrors of war (that they're victims of as much as perpetrators). "You know, time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start So dance along to the beat of your heart" This is kind of about finding poetry in art amidst the (musicless) disaster of war - not romanticizing this, but, I mean, people trying to find something to hold on to for sanity. "Hey, young blood Doesn't it feel like our time is running out? I'm gonna change you like a remix Then I'll raise you like a phoenix" THey send the young poor to die in wars, so now they're feeling it's very likely they won't get out of the quagmire alive. The war is telling them it's changing who they are - and they hope that from this experience they'll be able to emerge as people once again. "Wearing our vintage misery No, I think it looked a little better on me I'm gonna change you like a remix Then I'll raise you like a phoenix" I think they're creating some sort of conscience about wars of the past and how patterns of conflict echo the past. "Bring home the boys and scrap scrap metal the tanks Get hitched, make a career out of robbing banks Because the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks "You broke our spirit" says the note we pass" This is what acually got me started into thinking about the whole war metaphor. "Bring home the boys" is so often talked about in the context of returning veterans. But this time it seems like they're talking about veterans who are left in a dire situation, economically speaking (maybe their whole country was) so they have no other option other than robbing banks. Also, these are no simple robbers: "you broke our spirits", says the note we pass. These are people who came from war and their spirit is broken. Now is twice so, as they have to resort to a life of crime. "The war is won before it's begun" They realize the politics of war goes deeper than they thought and they were just pawns in the game. "Release the doves, surrender love" How they cherish peace, maybe. Or how they are using the last sentence as a threat in a future war / conflict: "we've already won. We know what we're talking about. Just surrender". So, in general: I KNOW it was likely NOT their intention to talk about war. This is probably just a coincidence (that their military metaphors served me well for this idea). But, you know, death of the author and all. I think this makes sense: it's not a depiction of a historical event or anything, it's just, like, a contextless experience of young people going to war, becoming horrified and changing who they are deeply, coming back and finding out they need to live a life of crime, and then finding out how deep the rabbit hole comes in terms of what war means. |
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| Poets Of The Fall – Illusion & Dream Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Just wanted to point out that "whatever makes you see makes you believe", Yet right out the gate he sings "Look in my eyes I'll make you see" and later "Just thought I'd try to make you see" So he's trying to make someone not only see but believe as well. Don't know how deep that goes but to me the effect is that maybe he's not denouncing things (masterminds influencing us), as he is too trying to influence things. |
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