| John K. Samson – Greenest Eyes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actually, this song was written after Showdown. When John recorded Slips and Tangles, he took a few of his Propagandhi lyrics with him, including the first verse of Showdown, which he then wrote a second verse for and renamed "Greenest Eyes". There's also a line in the song "Airport Lounge" that goes "She lays her body down and tries to say: There is no answer to a kiss", which was taken from a Propagandhi cover song... I can't remember the name of the song it was a cover of, though. I think Saint Cecilia may also be a cover of a really old song, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. | |
| The Weakerthans – Anchorless Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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From an interview with John K. "Anchorless has more to do with - it does in a way, but it has more to do - that's a very hopeful song for me and I know most people don't see it that way. It's about a family member close to me that died, and who our family had some conflicted feelings about. Who I really never got to know as well as I should have. And who just didn't seem able to express himself all his life. Didn't seem able to show affection and care for other people, and that song is about how I don't wanna end up that way, and how I resolve, like, not to be that way. Not follow that pattern that so many people have set for them. I think so many people are emotionally stunted by the places they live and the people who bring them up. So to a certain extent yeah, you have to leave that behind. You have to say like "I'm starting fresh right here - no baggage." So I'm trying to escape that." |
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| The Weakerthans – Sun in an Empty Room Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that the first verse is all about returning furniture, packing up dishes, last week's paper, and packing up their unending wars because they're done with eachother. Their fingerprints smeared on all the doors they slammed shut when they were mad at each other, or leaving angry. The line "Last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit," I think, is about getting their damage deposit back because they are, in fact, moving out. "Take this moment to decide, if we were meant to if we tried, felt around for far too much, from things that accidentally touch", to me, seems to mean that they were looking for too much in a relationship that they got into out of random chance, and that they were feeling around for far too much, or far more than was possible between them. The second verse, I think, is about things we as humans do by accident, and are way more awkward to us than they should be for some reason. Bumping shoulders with someone on the subway or bus, kicking them under the table, or your eyes meeting in public when they catch you staring (The faces we meet in one awkward beat too long and terrified). And I think the second chorus is all about running out of things to say to the person you're dating. I know I've been there before, having nothing left to say but small talk because you've already said everything. "Know the things we need to say are already said anyway." I think the other two lines in it are in reference to the painting by Edward Hopper, look it up on Google image search. And, on the last chorus, you're right. The Earth is, at its closest, 91 million miles from the Sun, at its furthest 94.5 million miles. It takes a time of 8.3 minutes for light from the Sun to reach us here at the Earth, and I think the line is referring to him watching the shadow slowly move across the floor as, every 8.3 minutes, new light hits the floor and moves it slightly, across a room that's been left empty of furniture and memories, as no one lives there anymore. |
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| The Weakerthans – Farewell Faded Memory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is amazing, nothing more, nothing less. | |
| The Weakerthans – Hymn of the Medical Oddity Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's maybe about John's take on David Reimer not wanting to die and be remembered as nothing more than a "queer experiment". He wants to be remembered as something else. And, yes, it's not "Saint Fratel", there are two areas in the French Quarter of Winnipeg (I live here in the Murder City, just so you know) called 'St. Boniface' and 'St. Vital' (pronounced vit-ell). They both used to be towns, back in the day, until Winnipeg got bigger and they grew together, and they became a section of the city. Still, though, that's an amazing line, and one I'll probably remember forever. Then idle in some parking lot, Smoke half a smoke and ask: "St. Boniface and St. Vital, Preserve me from my past." |
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| The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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P.S. Any of you wonder if the "Tabby two doors down," and "After scrapping with the ferals and the tabby let you brush my matted fur," are the same tabby? I wonder if they're still friends after that fight. |
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| The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just my opinion, but when I hear "the sound that you found for me," I think it means "Virtute". Just because, the sound most people find for their pets are their names... and "singing the sound that you found for me," it might mean he lost his cat, and went through the streets, kind of half-yelling, half-singing their name in that weird way us humans do. "Virtuuuuute~!" "How I'd scratch the empties and desperate to hear, the sound that you found for me" - what is the first thing we call out when a cat is pawing and clawing at something they shouldn't be? It's their name. Now the cat's been gone for so long that it's forgot its own name. Such a sad song for an imaginary cat so strong it inspired Naols a few posts above me, and however many others... Great song. |
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