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A Loverless Bed (Without Remission) Lyrics
Such a shame that I can't get over this
Put the axle on and roll again Such a Saturn eye will close again Watching every ring turning again And I close my eyes To everything you've rearranged And I close my mind To everything you've kept the same Put the axle on and roll again Cannot keep you in my bed again Wake up every time, leave your space again When the hairline breaks and lends you in To the woman you've turned red again
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07-27-2005
must be about loss or change in a relationship, although the lyrics are muddled and clearly the person who posted them thought the same.
05-11-2009
"Saturn eye" might refer to the Roman god Saturn, who served as a god of justice, so in this respect, it could be possible that this woman keeps overlooking the faults/realities of her failed (or failing) relationship with this man (or woman) who keeps using her.
"When the hairline breaks" makes me think of a hairline fracture--she keeps building herself back up, but finds herself capitulating to him, letting him back into her life, as well as her bed, because she simply can't get over him. She's red from both arousal and embarrassment.
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10-05-2005
I submitted this song to be placed alongside girlboyrevolt's version, but a mod must have just written my version over his/hers.
Anyway, the second-to-last line should read,
"When the hairline breaks and lends you in," but since girlboyrevolt still retains control over the entry, I can't fix it.
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06-26-2006
A "Saturn eye" could be a reference to the famous painting of Saturn savagly devouring one of his offspring. In the painting the eyes are large and white, bulging out in his madness and selfish ambition.
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06-28-2006
I can't figure out the last line. "hairline breaks"- aging? When you age...? Anybody?
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12-02-2006
It is interesting that he says he can't get over this, but he then states that he will put the axle on and roll again meaning he will move beyond it. Again he uses "again" to say he has experience with doing this.
Finally, the narrator of this song may not be a male. The song is sung in falsetto which is not necessarily a given that it is a woman speaking, but it does make sense given the context of the song. The narrator is a woman who cannot keep the man she loves in her bed as he wants to sleep with other women. The last two lines are obviously a reference to sexual intercourse. The hairline is the vaginal pubic hairling which would split as the man she loves inters another woman.
It does not make sense for the song to be from the point of view of Sufjan Stevens who is lamenting a woman leaving him. The last line would either have to be referring to a man or a lesbian or bi-sexual. So, the "you" throughout the entire song must be one of these three types of people.
As a footnote, Sufjan is singing A Winner Needs a Wand from a woman's point of view.
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05-02-2007
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05-23-2007
A loverless bed (without remission): such a shame that I can't get over this; put the axle on and roll again. Such a Saturn eye will close again, watching every ring turning again. And I close my eyes to everything you've rearranged, and I close my mind to everything you've kept the same. Put the axle on and roll again. Cannot keep you in my bed again; wake up every time and leave your space again. When the hairline breaks and lends you into the woman you've turned red again.
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06-12-2007
I disagree with the blatant sex imagery that texas007 suggested in the last line. That is not to say it isn't there. It just isn't as blatant as you suggest. "The woman you've turned red..." is such a subtle, "polite" way of putting it that preceding it with very physical graphic language describing the act of coitus is out of place. Maybe after, but never before. Being well versed in Sufjan lyrics also, I do not feel that this fits with his previous and later form.
The word "hairline" takes on many meanings, which could be very intentional on sufjan's part. The image in my mind is a crack, or a hairline fracture, signifying tension and a sense of imminence, as in a dam, or a bone. Something will break and something must drastically change one way or another. This is supported by the phrase "when the hairline breaks."
Then again, I could be wrong. I don't want to assume that I am the end all be all of lyrical analysis. And this song can really mean to you what it will. I frankly dont think sufjan would mind.
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03-13-2008
Id also like to say that the vocal effects in this song remind of Beck's earlier work.
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03-13-2008
Spell check SUCKS!
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03-13-2008
Spell check SUCKS!
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08-13-2008
that's my interpretation, anyway.
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10-03-2008
Couldn't that line be interpreted: to the woman you've embarrassed again, as in this woman can't take this guy back even though she would love to turn a blind eye to everything he has done in the past? Maybe? Maybe?
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10-03-2008
"To the woman you've turned red again"
Couldn't that line be interpreted: to the woman you've embarrassed again, as in this woman can't take this guy back even though she would love because every time she does turn a blind eye to everything he has done in the past, he just embarrasses her again? Maybe?
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01-27-2009
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03-16-2009
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