| Enya – Tempus Vernum Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| The song sounds like a dark incantation... And it's actually about spring. I think I'll pretend I have no idea what the Latin means :) | |
| The Decemberists – Sleepless Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| As a song it sounds wonderful but it makes me deeply uncomfortable. | |
| The Decemberists – Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[CynicalTruth:15688] Excuse the typos and spelling/grammar errors... I didn't bother to proof-read before submitting. | |
| The Decemberists – Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Why are people even debating this?!? The story is clear from the other songs that came before, as well as this song and the booklet... "And there she came upon A white and wounded fawn Singing: oh, the hazards of love" -> Margaret find a "wounded fawn" and tries to nurse him back to health. "The taiga shifted strange The beast began to change Singing: oh, the hazards of love" -> William turns into his human form. "But Margaret heaves a sigh Her hands clasped to her thigh Singing: oh, the hazards of love" -> Margaret is horny and by the "Hazards of love" repetition all throughout the song it's pretty clear that they have consensual sex. Otherwise Margaret would not be clasping her thighs (the body language of a woman who is "excited", not who is about to be raped). ".Thou unconsolable daughter,. said the sister .When wilt thou trouble the water in the cistern? And what irascible blackguard is the father?. And when young Margaret.s waistline grew wider The fruit of her amorous entwine inside her And so our heroine withdraws to the taiga" -> Margaret is pregnant, people do not know the father, and she runs away to the taiga (where William is) to be with the father of her child. "Please alert this love of mine Let him know his Margaret comes along" -> Again... NOT RAPE. She calls William "this love of mine". And calls herself "his Margaret" which is affectionate. "And all this stirring inside my belly Won.t quell my want for love And I may swoon from all this swelling But I won.t want for love" -> Perhaps you guys don't know this... But pregnant women get very horny sometimes. VERY horny. Margaret is very pregnant and wants to "be" with William very much. "I lay you down In clover bed The stars a roof Above our heads And we'll lie 'til the Corn Crake crows Bereft of the weight of our summer clothes And I'd wager all " -> William finds Margaret and they finally have sex again. "He Was a baby abandoned Entombed in a cradle of claim (clay?) And I was a soul Who took pity And stole him away And gave him the form of A fawn to inhabit By day " -> The Queen (some sort of Mother Nature-like figure) gives us the backstory of William: she kidnapped him from his human parents as a baby and made him half fawn (the form Margaret met him in). And now she's annoyed that Margaret is trying to take him away from her. "And here we died our little deaths And we were left to catch our breaths So swiftly lifting from our chests " -> Margaret and William both sing about how lovely the forest and the sky are... after they've just climaxed. "Little death" means orgasm. "And isn't a lovely way We got in from our play Isn't it ? A sweet little baby" -> Margaret calls what happened between them when they first met (and now) "our play". She was definitely NOT raped, but isn't taking the act as something important, either. They're just "playing". "Mother hear this proposition right Grant me freedom to enjoy this night And I'll return to you at break of light For the wanting comes in waves And waves And waves Still the wanting comes in waves Still the wanting comes in waves Still the wanting comes in waves And you owe me life And you owe me life " -> William offers to go back with his mum to the forest if she'll leave him and Margaret alone for one night. "The wanting comes in waves" could stand for either love/tenderness, or him being just as horny as she was. "Our heroine here falls prey to Her abductor" -> The Rake (introduced in the song before this one) kidnaps Margaret at the orders of The Queen. "And you have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child To abduct and abuse and to render her rift and defiled But the river is deep to the banks and the water is wild I will fly you to the far side" -> The Queen helps The Rake cross the river with a kidnapped Margaret. Perceived as a "troubling temptation". "Annan water Oh hear my true love's call Hear her holler Above your water's pall God, that I could That my two arms could give me wing And I would cross your breath And rest my breast about her amber ring Her amber ring" -> William pleads with the river to let him cross over to Margaret and the Rake. "Oh my own true love! Oh my own true love! Can you hear me, love? Can you hear me, love?" -> William calls for Margaret while the Rake is trying to scare her. William is coming for her with the same he came for her when she was in the taiga. "Oh Margaret the lapping waves are licking quietly at our ankles Another bow another breath this brilliant chill's come for the shackle. With this long last rush of air we speak our vows and sorry whispers, When the waves came crashing down, he closed his eyes and softly kissed her. " -> After the Rake's kids take revenge on him as ghosts, William and Margaret drown. I... honestly am not sure how this happens or if any more details were given in the booklet or anywhere else. In any case, this would be William's pleading with the river from earlier (he promised his bones if the river would let him pass), catching up to him and Margaret. Thus the guilt in his lines: "But I pulled you and I called you here, And I caught you and I brought you here These hazards of love, never more will trouble us. And these hazards of love, never more will trouble us." -> And they all dies. The end. :)) |
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| Lady GaGa – Monster Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Am I the only one who noticed the very "Aqua" sound to this song? It sounds like a screwed up "Barbie Girl" | |
| Tiamat – Do You Dream Of Me? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song sounds like a Dali painting (weird connexion, I know, but it's the exact atmosphere I go to when I hear it). It's delirious. The perfect rhythm and the cold metallic sound tug at something in your unconscious. It tastes a bit like that feeling you get when you're not 100% asleep but still you start dreaming. Genius song. |
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| Tiamat – Do You Dream Of Me? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song sounds like a Dali painting (weird connexion, I know, but it's the exact atmosphere I go to when I hear it). It's delirious. The perfect rhythm and the cold metallic sound tug at something in your unconscious. It tastes a bit like that feeling you get when you're not 100% asleep but still you start dreaming. Genius song. |
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| Tiamat – Via Dolorosa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always thought he said "shame me", not "chain me". In any case, great song :) | |
| Abney Park – Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song reminds me a lot of a French comic book, Fée et tendres automates. I recommend it, lovely atmosphere and graphics. | |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Epiphany Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I just love the second part of this song (starting from "Did you ever walk up to the edge of a cliff"); it's such a beautiful allegory for taking risks and having to decide between what may seem the logical solution and what you feel is the solution YOU NEED. If you take that final step you either win everything or lose it all - it depends on your luck. And also, I see TSO came back to a theme they sang about in "What Is Eternal": which actions/thoughts/images decide the nature of a person, in the end? "From Eternity's view", is he the man he used to be, or the reformed version of himself? Which one really matters? Their songs might have a bit too much pathos; (or sometimes sound downright cheesy); but damn, I love them anyway! |
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| Beyoncé – If I Were a Boy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Geez. My comment sounds a lot like motapito's... I didn't use the same phrase structure on purpose, sorry. | |
| Beyoncé – If I Were a Boy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I hate this type of song. "I'm so emotionally superior to you; you could NEVER be as good a person as me!" bla-bla-bla. all men = cold, heartless bastards. all women = innocent, heartbroken victims. Give me a break! If this is all she could understand from the ways the human mind works - in all these years - she really is an idiot! The melody is nothing more than ordinary; and her vocals are annoying as usual. I HATE her voice! It's like she can only produce three or four sounds that she uses in absolutely EVERY song she's ever recorded. Weak. Very weak. |
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| Depeche Mode – Peace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have the feeling "Peace" is a sequel to "Wrong". Whilst "Wrong" was filled with self-disappointment; "Peace" seems like a release from that negative state: accepting the past and going for a better future. Two extremes, if you ask me. Also... are you sure it's not "I'm leaving anger in the past / With all the shadows that it CAST " instead of "caused"? |
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| Voltaire – God Thinks Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Beliathor, what you just described there is called "Pantheism". :P I'm a Pantheist myself and I came to see what you people make of these lyrics 'cause i was curious to know if anyone else had spotted the pantheistic nuance in the last verses. Just checking whether I interpreted it correctly, or was just searching for my own belief in there :D |
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| Voltaire – Hallo Elskan Min Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Icelandic :) | |
| Emiliana Torrini – The Boy Who Giggled So Sweet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with Binni (even though that comment is "only" 4 years old... It's about young girl who had a baby without being married ("came with a breeze" sounds a lot like a Romanian phrase, "child from flowers"). She's poor, the weather's harsh, and she tries to keep the baby warm and sings to him. She promises she'll never let him die (lips turning blue); but, alas, in the end the baby DOES die and is taken away from her. Result: girl goes a bit insane, walking alone on the street and singing her lullaby. Simple as that. It IS a pretty straightforward song though. |
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| Tori Amos – Fat Slut Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For me this song is a fight between a long-time couple. The two can't stand each other anymore so they're contstantly arguing... The "mother" is sick of pretending her family-life is happy and peachy. And that also relates very well to Pip not having a nice family history. It might be what she witnessed as a kid. It was traumatic for her. |
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| The Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| God, people. So sorry for that last comment... I mixed up the songs. I'd opened too many in different tabs and I started mixing up my stuff. I meant that for "Eli, The Barrow Boy". Sorry again | |
| The Decemberists – Eli, the Barrow Boy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As cmurphy2826 already stated, and I also recently posted on "The Chimbley Sweep" by accident (I got my tabs mixed up and forgot what song I was at); "Eli the Barrow Boy" reminds me a lot of "Molly Malone, aka "Cockles and Mussels". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuccpdL7HE&feature=channel_page In Dublin's fair city, Where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she pushed her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! Alive, alive oh! alive, alive oh! Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! Now she was a fishmonger, And sure twas no wonder, For so were her mother and father before, And they each wheeled their barrow, Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! She died of a fever, And no one could save her, And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone. Now her ghost wheels her barrow, Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! :D Very sad song though. Lovely; but sad. |
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| The Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm quite surprised nobody mentioned this before (if anyone has, I'm sorry, I didn't see). There's a traditional Irish song this reminds me a bit of. "Molly Malone" aka "Cockles and Mussels". Here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuccpdL7HE&feature=channel_page In Dublin's fair city, Where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she pushed her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! Alive, alive oh! alive, alive oh! Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! Now she was a fishmonger, And sure twas no wonder, For so were her mother and father before, And they each wheeled their barrow, Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! She died of a fever, And no one could save her, And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone. Now her ghost wheels her barrow, Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"! :D |
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| The Decemberists – Isn't It a Lovely Night? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "Little death" is definitely "orgasm". They've just finished having sex and are now enjoying the evening. And I think the "And isn't it a lovely way we got in from our play / Isn't it babe? / A sweet little baby" speaks of how great the result of such "pleasure" is. After feeling so good they get a sweet little baby :) | |
| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I doubt this has anything to do with "Leslie Anne Levine", but I can't say I'm very much interested whether that connection is true or not, since both songs pretty much stand for themselves. But I do agree with the poster who said that the guy's dragging "Miranda" into this mess. First off, the "you wept but your soul was willing" part sounds more like denial: "You may be crying but I KNOW that you really love me deep inside, and that your true desire is to die along with me". Kinda mad, this narrator. Also, I don't think he loves her. Do you call someone you love "a tattooed tramp", "a dirty daughter from the labour camps"? I thought not. Instead he seems to WANT to have a tragic lovestory. He just has a fantasy he wants to make real. First off, if he says she's a "tramp", how can she be "untouched"? He just wishes she was. And the parents not agreeing? He doesn't even know they don't - he just THINKS / supposes not ("and my parents will never consent to this love"). A supposition is not enough to die over. The action takes place in the modern world (tattooed women, you know), and that makes it even less likely for a young couple to "poetically" jump off a cliff cause someone doesn't agree with their relationship. And I especially don't picture a girl being enthusiastic about kill herself just because her possible inlaws reject her. He's just a sick demented guy who wants to be part of something dramatic. I can just see him saying his entire "we fall but our souls are flying" speech to her, with theatrical body-language; and behind him, a scared and somewhat confused "Miranda", with a "run now" face :P I wouldn't even be surprised if her name wasn't "Miranda" at all, but he just called her that cause it sounds so "old" and elegant. Or in relation to Miranda from "The Tempest". He was probably raised in a very "boring" and "naive" world of rich people, he can't understand the rough part of life; while "Miranda" knows it much better than most. My interpretation. |
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| The Decemberists – Culling of the Fold Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this is a song about how prejudice and socially-imposed ideas hurt human relationships. "It may break your heart to break her bones But someone's got to do the culling of the fold" So... your feelings towards her are of love. But you hurt her because you KNOW you have to, she doesn't fit some social criteria; (like "strenght"). But still that hurts you both - and all that for an idea. So feelings should be above rules and principles. Also, no one is entitled to decide who is worthy of life and who isn't. Cut him up, girl Really cut him up, girl He lives by himself In a hole in a wall You got to cut him up, girl You can take him in a stitch Dump his body in a ditch Leave his limbs all naked That'll teach him how to take it = intolerance? I don't know how much sense I'm making here, but I just get a lot of sarcasm out of this song. |
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