| Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the story is about a girl who came to Belleville whith a group of people from New York because of the New Madrid Fault and Iben Browning's prediction of a major desaster (like the one in 1810 when the river flew backwards for a short time). Maybe she is a geologist or a journalist. He fell in love with her. But she returned to New York after seismic activity has failed to appear. He is wounded because she only seemed to be intested in the possible desaster ... ("for her that's enough"). So he daydreams of desaster ... to bring her back - or to bury him and all things in the fault I dont't understand "caroms over the landfill" I'm no native speaker - does carom mean something like bounce? - and does landfill mean the fault in this case? |
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| Wilco – Red-Eyed and Blue Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The setting of the song is a day in the recording studio. Solid state technology means the recording equipment, the "tapes on the floor" say that their sessions are a bit of a mess, they have good songs but are fighting to get them right ("can't afford to play"). He feels far from home and misses his girl. Alcohol and cotton balls are used to clean the heads of tape-machines. Normally you drink alcohol for fun, now it's just part of their studio-work. Instead they got some cheap drugs from somewhere on the way. At the beginning of the recording day they had the feeling that they could make it, but now he is worn, red eyed and blue. |
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