| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A thoroughly beautiful song, one of the most enlightening and exiting things I've listened to for an awfully long time. This is my accompaniment to the verses: Planned proposition They match She's exited He's not interested Loses interest She's read books on this, she's prepared herself greatly for this opportunity, but it means she knows from the looks he gives her that he's not interested (the palm - used to push something away - of your eye) He rejects her Na na nana na - children, children/peers mocking her maybe? NOT how she wanted it She'd made this story up Now it was going where it wanted, she rides it frightened She's panicked by this It runs to the "source" The reason she wants this relationship is because she's alone, because she wants company, because she thinks he'll make her life better, any of these, that is her original position or "source" and the story runs to that. She's back to square one. In this position she looks back Blue now, not red with love and the exitement Unwell - lovesick?, Bolt like a horse, when horses are scared, now she is scared as a result of rejection - change Now it's gone - She's looking back She tells herself to watch it go (letting go/release) You've changed some (change theme) Water runs from snow, it changes form (change), it runs (he ran away, if she used to be snow (her situation, or herself) and now she is water (or her situation). She's changed, and she shies (or runs) away from snow because she's scared of rejection again It makes her question herself After being confident in her beauty/intelligence/suitability it's a knock to her confidence Is she so dear? (Is she all that she thought she was? As valuable?) Does she run rare? (Is she uniquely suitable like she thought she was? Are there many like her?) And you've changed some (prononciation of some not as "sum" but "som" a reference to her name New"som"? She's changed because of this) Peach, Plum, Pear (How she thought she'd change) Peach, Plum *NO PEAR* (An interruption, things don't go as planned) I love this so much. |
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