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| The Mountain Goats – Prana Ferox Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Found this: Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning 'breath' and refers to a vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy in natural processes of the universe.
Ferox simply mean wild and/or spirited. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Wild Sage Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Before playing this song, Darnielle prefaced it by saying it was about a person going insane. Not in the theatrical sense... but in the real way that he saw as a psychiatric nurse. Where someone just slowly loses touch with everything and can no longer handle daily life.
In this way, it's an introduction to the feeling on the album that follows losing someone. |
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| The Mountain Goats – You or Your Memory Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yes. Checking into a cheap motel, pondering life. I think the "you or your memory" is a reference to the step-father. He's feeling awful about his life and the memory of the past is always there haunting him. The song opens the album and such a reference would be a good introduction to the recurrant theme of his step-father. |
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| Bob Dylan – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song really hit me when I heard it as somone contacting an ex, and declaring that eventually one of them is bound to realize that neither is to blame for the failed relationship. That they both tried and both loved each other. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Joan of Arc Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this is a metaphor for love, using the strong ideas behind Joan of Arc's religious love. She submits herself to the fire... if her love is fire, then she must let herself be wood and give her ashes to him. It can be about any form of love/passion and the paradoxal combination of pain and glory found in the process. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I didn't read all of the comments (sorry if that's rude), but I wanted to comment that I think sidebeard's analysis misses the point of the song. Jane's action isn't meant to be a "disloyalty." The singer is struggling with realizing that another man gave his woman something he couldn't give her... that he is not a god (a complex many guys have trouble with). He's struggling to realize that it's okay. That he can still love both these individuals... that the "affair" wasn't a betrayal. It was Jane's freedom exposed, along with his own freedom. This common friend caused this, for which the singer is both thankful and regretful. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Dress Rehearsal Rag Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Going off your comment about rags, the title/line "dress rehearsal rag" is a contradiction. I think that's important to the song. It's a practiced improvisation. It's not an actual suicide... it's the waking up/lying in bed contemplating suicide feeling, but never acting. |
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| Van Morrison – Madame George Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Those are backgrounds on the subject. But I think the mood of the song is basically that feeling when you know you've moved on from youthful days... and you're stepping into a new life. It nostalgic. |
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| Bob Dylan – Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think "warehouse eyes" might be about how he stores the image of her in his mind. "arabian drums" I'm not so sure. I think it might be a reference to his heart (beating drums/heart beats). Both he's asking if he should hold onto them (and wait) or leave them at her gate (give up hope). |
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| Bob Dylan – 4th Time Around Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't think so. It's just about expectations from love/relationships. The girl expects him to give and is upset when he doesn't deliver, instead of just letting the relationship happen and being content with such an experience. |
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| Poe – That Day Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's a guy backing out on a dream. The day when a dream died. |
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| Wilco – Kamera Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's about wanting to get rid of memories. Trying to fake what you actually feel, but the memories constantly revealing these lies. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Thanks for the story. I've been wanting to pick the autobiography up. Hopefully this will be incentive for me to actually go get it.
And yes. Being born, raised and still living in California, it's great to know this song is out there. I think I was listening to this on the 5 once actually, late at night. |
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| Wilco – Ashes of American Flags Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Just going off all the previous, tying together the loose ends: I'd say its a dead song, longing for passion. Something to do and feel like doing. Waking up in a dream-like state with no worries... that would be a peace found in the good life the singer desires. |
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| Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Come on. Don't tell me everyone's going to stop detailing their perceptions of emo now... You know, really, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five were the first emo band. Really. I mean it. You can't deny it. |
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| Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I must agree with Kafziel. And to respond to Chrispy: Yes. Dylan has a lot of songs with intense symbolism. It does not mean every song should be taken in the same method of interpretation. He's versatile. Writing complex symbolism to simple ballads.
I think this is a story, not an existential, psychological analysis of one person. It's a story that has a lot of really strong themes and beautiful characters though. The Jack of Hearts is a rogue trickster/robber who is still ultimately good. Big Jim is an ass who is one of the most powerful/respected men around.
I disagree about what was said happens in the story. I think the Jack of Hearts is killed by Big Jim's revolver, and Rosemary does the one good thing before she dies by killing Big Jim with the penknife (which she was said to be holding earlier). The Jack of Hearts' associates get the money and wait for him, but he never shows up. I might be off, but it's how I always heard it. And I like it that way.
I don't see anything about Lily dressing up as Rosemary, someone let me know where that is... |
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| Bob Dylan – Simple Twist of Fate Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I hear it as a story of love being a simple twist of fate (well, obviously). That love happens as a result of slight changes and moments. It's easy, because of this, to miss. These two spent a day and night together, figuring it was just another date. The narrator realizes only later, after she had left the following morning, that a simple twist of fate had occurred, ie. love. |
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| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"I see my light come shining from the west unto the east" is an apocalyptic reference. Most apocalyptic scriptures mention a light shining from the west to the east in the day when the truly good will be released from the pain of injustice and persecution. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Ugly Day Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I believe Christie was Reese's fiance at the time... yet they are no longer engaged, it was broken off. At least, this is what I think. I'm far from knowledgable of FIF bio stuff. I'm somewhat new to their music. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – One Girl Army Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I don't believe it's about Mary... more, it uses her to support the general message of the worth and important of women in God's plans. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Handbook For The Sellout Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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man, those second two notes sound like traitors to music, and ignorant of music, not to mention immature. Why would someone making money from it lessen their worth? Really. If your current favorite "underground" song suddenly became popular, you'd probably say how much that song sucks, just because it's popular. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Far, Far Away Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I see this as a song about the difficulty of hearing the call of God in the modern age of skeptics, and how everyone's looking for hope, yet no one dares to look to God for it... yet Peter found hope by swimming to Christ. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Every New Day Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I see it as being about how God is easy to accept when you're a child, when you even believe you can fly if you tried enough. Every spark of light is amazing and new... as you get older, problems pile upon you and God is harder to accept. This is a call for God to help him be that child again, see every day as new... and feel like he can soar once again. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Blue Comb '78 Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Yes. It's about the divorce... but more importantly, the loss of his childhood and innocence that resulted because of the divorce. That is what the comb represents, his childhood, given to him by his mom and dad, only to be lost. The song has the cute ways of childhood (the dental floss lines)... the life which he can never go back to. |
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