| Rilo Kiley – My Slumbering Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It seems, especially because of the ending, that the song is about her relationship with her mother. She starts off with a memory from her youth, then it seems to cut to the present- she feels she is aging. Then, another memory, and so on. At the end, "And I'm not a failure, I swear, I wish you could see it from over there" seems like a child wishing the parent would realize their success. With the themes of time, aging, and the poem about her parents at the end, it all gives me the image of a young woman reconciling her "dream like" past and feelings toward her mother. | |
| Rilo Kiley – My Slumbering Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It seems, especially because of the ending, that the song is about her relationship with her mother. She starts off with a memory from her youth, then it seems to cut to the present- she feels she is aging. Then, another memory, and so on. At the end, "And I'm not a failure, I swear, I wish you could see it from over there" seems like a child wishing the parent would realize their success. With the themes of time, aging, and the poem about her parents at the end, it all gives me the image of a young woman reconciling her "dream like" past and feelings toward her mother. | |
| Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song will always remind me of that springtime in phoenix when justin and i finally kissed like mad starving wolves and rolled all over his bed covered in dog hair sweating like every day only better two friends turned lovers before moving to separate coasts |
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| Yo La Tengo – Nuclear War Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| love the complexities suggested by having children sing backup- children represent innocence (in this case, lost innocence); these children have inherited a world threatened by something before them and beyond their control; and plus, its just funny hearing kids swear. i wonder whose kids they used for this? their own? and this whole bleak song is performed in this trippy happy way- awesome! | |
| Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| a relationship nearing its end seems most likely. autumn here is definitely used symbolically as in the relationship is "near death." i also think this because it seems they know each other- he says "we could slip away" as if they have grown to rely on one another. he can't smile easily, like in the beginning...how many times have we all felt that excited new love feeling fade slowly? such a good song, tempo, ambiance. | |
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